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ON BRIEFS Four Destination Im agination Teams Ad vance to Global Tournament Four of Wayzata Publi c Schools’ 15 Destinati on Imagination teams took first or second place at the state tou rnament in April and advanced to the Glo bal Finals tourname nt in May. Destination ImagiNation is an int ernational problemsolving competition kindergarten through for college students tha t teaches life skills an expands imaginatio d ns through team-ba sed creative problem solving. Congratulatio ns to the following tea ms: Oakwood Elementary School’s team, The 7 Hippy Dippy Burgers took second place in state and 37th natio nally in “Challenge C, Get a Clue.” Team members include Bre nnan Tapper, Luke Greseth, Megan Griffin , Hannah Chen, Anika Swenson, Adam Christopherson and Tessa Shaver. Wayzata High Schoo l’s team, Psychedelic Hippie Kaleidoscopes, took second place in state and took fifth pla ce nationally in “Challenge D, Close Encounters.” Team me mbers include Justin Greenberg, David Mo , Arman Shah and Ab by Trouth. Greenwood Elementa ry School’s team, Im prov Bananas, took first in state and fifth place nationally in “Ch allenge D, Close Encounters.” Team me mbers include Lariss a Zukor, Carly Globst and Anna Vollendorf. ad
Sophomore Chess Player Andrew Tang Named National Co-Champion The National High School Chess Championship was held in Atlanta in April with more than 1,500 players competing. After seven rounds of intensive competition, WHS sophomore Andrew Tang won five games, drew two and tied for first. Andrew was also the K-12 champion at the Minnesota State Scholastic Chess Championship in March. In the team competition, Wayzata High School placed ninth in the nation and third in the state.
Kimberly Lane and Ply mouth Creek Elementa ry School’s team, Bright Minds, took firs t place at state and 22 nd nationally in “Challenge E, Musical Mashup.” Team memb ers include Abhiram Velagapudi, Neha Bu ridi, Tanush Thimma sani, Trisha Terafa, Tan Tersla and Nithya Dh vi armaishgara.
WHS Students Reco gnized in Scholars of Distinction Award Program
WHS Student Receives Perfect AP Macroeconomics Score Wayzata High School celebrates Allison Sholl for earning a perfect score on her Advanced Placement (AP) Macroeconomics Exam. Out of the approximately 4.5 million AP Exams taken by 2.5 million high school students in 2015, only 322 students earned every point possible on an AP exam, making her perfect score a rare accomplishment.
WHS Sophomores Place Second in State at Music Listening Competition Wayzata High School sophomores Joseph Ching, Christopher Lin and Jason Weng placed second at the Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest Region 8 competition. The Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest expands the music experiences of students – primarily through the use of classical music. The contest materials also cover global perspectives and a variety of musical influences. The objective of the contest is to inspire students to become lifelong participants in the musical experience.
Ten Wayzata High Sch ool students have ear ned recognition in the Scholars of Distincti on Award Program. Th e awards conferred by Minnesota Departm ent of Education rec ognize exceptional accomplishment, achiev ement and performan ce as evidenced by the documentation provid ed by the students. Co ngratulations to the following students: Sydnee Anderson, senior, recognized for her project “An Analy of Suicide Preventio sis n, Intervention and Po stvention Policies in High Schools” Smita Bhoopatira ju, junior, recognized for her project “Phon logical and Semantic oFeatures in Four- and Six-Year-Olds’ Foreig Word Learning” n Michael Cai, senior , recognized for his pro ject “Furfural as a Feedstock for Nitrog enous Heterocycles” Pooja Kandikond a, senior, recognized for her project “Meth trexate Polyglutamate oAnalysis” Kevin Liu, senior, for his project “Computa tional Design of Farnesyl Diphosphate Analogues to Invest igate Protein Prenylation” Sasidhar Vankina , junior, for her projec t “Power and Responsi ity Concerns as Sourc biles of Response Bias” Jessica Weng, sen ior, for her project, “Ca n APOBEC3B gene be therapeutic target for a breast cancer?” Gauri Binoy, junior , for her project “Rege nerating the neuron through blastocyst com plementation of PIT X3 knockout brains the treatment of neura for l degenerative diseas es” Drew William, jun ior, for his project “Ne xt Generation BrainSensing Interface for Brain Signal Analysis and Rapid Closed Loo Deep Brain Stimulat p ion Algorithm Devel opment” Amrit Bhatia, sen ior, for his project “Im plementation of an Adaptive Filter to Elim inate Power Line Int erference”