Throughout the past week and weekend, UIL Academic teams participated in the district academic meet at Katy High School. The Tompkins team finished second overall in the district with many students who received medals and many who will be advancing to the regional meet on April 13 and 14 at Cy Woods High School. All of the students and teams competed at an extremely high level and represented Tompkins tremendously. The following students placed in their respective categories.
Calculator Applications (Katherine Maloy’s team)
Junior Tarini Thiagarajan- fifth place
Freshman Joshua Karim- sixth place
The team placed second overall.
Mathematics (Maloy’s team)
The team placed third overall.
Number Sense (Maloy’s team)
Freshman Joshua Karim- sixth place
The team placed third overall.
Science (Chris Aguayo’s team)
Senior Will Rogers- first place with a top score in chemistry and physics
Senior Ryan Profilet- sixth place
The team placed first overall.
Current Issues and Events (Jason Gigliotti’s team)
Senior Husain Dhoon- fourth place
The team placed third overall.
Social Studies (Gigliotti’s team)
Senior Husain Dhoon- second place
Senior Ping Rui Toong- fifth place
The team placed second overall.
Ready Writing (Macey Godfrey’s team)
Junior Aditya Varma- sixth place
Spelling and Vocabulary (Godfrey’s team)
Junior Nila Dhinaker- fourth place
The team placed second overall.
Editorial Writing (Ryan Culver’s team)
Senior Celine Low- second place
Senior Drew Van Chau- fifth place
Feature Writing (Culver’s team)
Senior Celine Low- third place
Junior Alejandra Cristancho- sixth place
Headline Writing (Culver’s team)
Senior Celine Low- sixth place
News Writing (Culver’s team)
Senior Celine Low- first place
Computer Science (Bryan Johnson’s team)
Junior Andrew Li- fifth place
The team placed third overall.
Accounting (Kelly Boldt’s team)
Senior Averi Breaux- fourth place
Senior Briana Clase- fifth place
Senior Carter Hobson- sixth place
The team placed third overall.
Informative Speaking (Leslie Hernandez’s team)
Junior Saiesha Sharma- third place
Junior Chumeng Wang- fourth place
Persuasive Speaking (Hernandez’s team)
Junior Byron Xu- second place
Poetry Interpretation (Hernandez’s team)
Junior Krishnendu Sreekumar- second place
Prose Interpretation (Hernandez’s team)
Sophomore Isabella Vineyard- second place
