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FBLA State Conference Results

Ballard High School had a very successful state conference! We have 28 students advance to the national level! We captured trophies in 22 events and was awarded 2nd largest chapter in the state of Kentucky.  These students have the opportunity to compete in Orlando in June.  Please congratulate them!

Business Ethics – 1st place

Mackenzie White
Laura Worth
Olivia Martin

Entrepreneurship – 1st place

Rachel Sprowles
Landon Hanners

Financial statement analysis – 1st place

Kiley Adkins
Jackson Wood

Introduction to business presentation – 3rd place

Maddy Mowry
Lucy Bentley
Reese Johnson

Business management – 5th place

Saanvi Vinod
Priya Gautam

Business Plan - 3rd place

Alex Balas
Peyton Heffernan
Matilda Gorley

Introduction to event planning - 5th place

Sriya Sangaraju
Alex Lundgard

Introduction to Fbla – 4th place

Sameen Vatankah

Data analysis – 3rd Place

Krithik Nadimpally
West Franklin
Kate Harrison

Journalism – 1st place

Ben Teitel

Broadcast Journalism – 1st place

George Givens
Kate Schuler

Partnership with a business – 3rd place

Caroline Massey line
Anthony Rice
Ella Kappesser

Electronic career portfolio – 1st place

Renelleda Saint Hilaire

Graphic design – 2nd place

Ben Cullens
Allie Finewood.

Retail management open testing - 1st place

Lucas Niemeyer

Nonprofit management open testing– 1st place

Saanvi Vinod

Securities & investments – 4th place

Kelly Litzau

Client service – 2nd Place

Abby Waterman

Parliamentary procedure – 5th Place

Patrick Raderer
Olivia Mardis
Botand Kriszan
Lucas David
Carson Baker

Visual design – 1st place

Jill Bennie
Avery Carlton

Bulletin board – 2nd place

Remy Aldridge
Audrey Iglehart
Bailey Moreland

Visual design – 1st place

Jill Bennie
Avery Carlton 

Accounting - 2nd place

Fizzah Syed

HOSA Leadership Conference

The HOSA State Leadership Conference concluded this morning and Ballard had an amazing showing for only our second year at the conference. What's more, we had the second largest delegation! Please congratulate the following students if you get a chance next week – 21 of them are eligible to compete at the International Leadership Conference this June in Houston.

Biotechnology - 1st Place Tristan Goodin

Clinical Specialty - Top 5 Sara Abduljalil

Biomedical Debate - 2nd Place Abdullah Alfatllawi, Mack Lindroth, Jada Washington

Creative Problem Solving - Top 5 Sim Kinser, Max Lucas, Krithik Nadimpally, Tanish Saddala, Pranjal Sharma, Hayden Staebler

HOSA Bowl - 2nd Place Siri Endluru, Hira Gopang, Mareeha Iqbal, Grace Phillips

Cultural Diversities and Disparities - 1st Place Cherry Shein Soe

Medical Reading - 1st Place Rikki Pardue

Nutrition - 2nd Place Akshay Kolwalkar

Pathophysiology - 3rd Place Gianna Kanongara

Emergency Medical Technician - Top 5 Grace Reck, Nandhika Veeramalli

Epidemiology - 1st Muhilan Balasubramanian

Medical Reserve Corps Partnership - 2nd Place Alisa Ali, Katey Buszkiewicz, Golshid Esmaeily, Abby Luttrell, Aishanvi Vinayak

Extemporaneous Writing - Health Policy - Top 5 Eleanor Esterle

Prepared Speaking - 2nd Place Latika Soni

Healthy Living - 2nd Place Megan Trapp

Research Poster - 2nd Place Vihaan Dakshini

Thank you all for contributing to their success!

 State Governors Cup Competition Results & Recruitment

Future Problem Solving Team (Friday Night), coached by Bryan Rich, advanced from Region 7

Amelia Dries, Eman Hamada, Isabella Martinez, Makaylah O’Neil

Quick Recall (Sunday Afternoon), coached by Bryan Rich, advanced from Region 7

Omar Caballero, Brennan Davis, Golshid Esmaeily, Jackson May, Rikki Pardue, Sam Shumway, Romeo Tapia, Taylor Thompson and Michael Whaley all competed and drew a tough card in Swiss pairing in Round 1 of the state tournament  on Sunday afternoon (playing the eventual state champion Paul Lawrence Dunbar).

Content Assessments (Saturday Morning):

Cooper Russell took the State Mathematics test

Brennan Davis took the State Science test 

Sam Shumway took the State Language Arts test 

Taylor Thompson took the State Arts and Humanities test

Omar Caballero took the State Social Studies test - PLACED 5th in the State of Kentucky!

Written Composition (Saturday afternoon)

Isabella Martinez PLACED 3rd in the State of Kentucky!

The writing prompt this year was intriguing, involving whether large corporations should be responsible for reparations payments due to hardships brought upon society due to climate change. For a more detailed breakdown, ask Bella or Mr. Crocker for more information!

****Special thanks to Jay Crocker for being willing to grade essays in the evenings after school back in January for Districts, in February for Regionals, and early on Sunday morning for State competition for our kids to be able to compete in this event!

I’ve been involved in this program for 14 years and I’m very excited about where our Academic Competition program is headed in the coming years, but we need your help!  If you know of any freshman/sophomores that would be a good fit for us to begin recruiting to represent the best and brightest of Ballard, please don’t hesitate to send them to me in S101, Bryan Rich in S217, or Scott McDonald in N145.  We have a lot of upperclassmen and need to start passing the baton to some of our up and coming rising freshmen and sophomores!

Thank you so much for your continued support and GO BRUINS!

60th Anniversary Louisville Regional Science Fair Competition 

Ballard faced very stiff competition from many schools, notably Gatton Academy, who have the academic and technical resources of WKU to assist their students, which ours do not. But Bruins do not give up and did very well.

• All First and Second Place projects are advancing to State competition at EKU on March 23rd. Each Place prize also includes a cash award commiserate with their place. 

• Please congratulate Muhilan Balasubramanian is going for a repeat to the International Science and Engineering Fair in L.A. this May. 

Please Congratulate the following students for their Category Awards and also Special Area awards. 

Behavioral and Social Sciences:     

Second Place: Sarah Gauhar

Biochemistry: 

Second Place: Nandhika Veeramalli

Third Place: Satya Hasini Ambati 

Biomedical and Health Sciences: 

Fourth Place: Dolores Wood

Chemistry: 

First Place: Sage Synder

Earth And Environmental Sciences

First Place: Grace Reck

Embedded Systems: 

First Place: Easha Heelage

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design 

Second Place: Mihira Sumansekera

Third Place: Owen Yoffee

Engineering Technology: Statics and Dynamics ( A TOTAL SWEEP of the CATEGORY!)

First Place: Eldino Kilim and Abinandhan Ramkumar

Second Place: Sophia Sapienza

Third Place: Ahmed Al Rawi

Fourth Place: Nathan Pennell 

Environmental Engineering: 

Third Place: Rujula Kolwalkar

Fourth Place: George Reeves and Maddie Thompson 

Materials Science: 

First Place: Connor Hamm

Third Place: Claire Sharon

Microbiology: 

First Place: Muhilan Balasubramaian

Fourth Place: Henry Fan and Reva Kapoor

Physics and Astronomy: 

Second Place: Alyssa Jones

Plant Sciences: 

First Place: Jackson May

Second Place: Elyse Wilcox

Robotics and Intelligent Machines: 

First Place: Kevin Brothers

Second Place: Henry Carnahan

Systems Software: 

Second Place: Summon Gebrelibanos and Leo Li

Fourth Place: Aarush Rajguru

Technology Enhances the Arts: 

Second Place: Leona Haight

Translational Medicine: 

First Place: Zanab Pervez

SPECIALTY AWARDS: Many of these come with a cash prize as well. 

Achievement in In Vitro Biology- Muhilan Balasubramaian

Enginering Award: Henry Carnahan

Engineering Achievement Award: Eldino Kilim and Abinandhan Ramkumar

Conservation and Waste Management Award: Mihira Sumansekera

U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize:  Rujula Kowalkar and Sage Snyder

U.S. Airforce: Connor Hamm

Yale Science and Enginering Association:  Zanab Pervez

Excellence in Civil Engineering Award: Nathan Pennell

Global Perfection Award: Kevin Brothers

Child Health and Well Being Award: Nora Adler and Pryia Gautam

Community Service and Social Benefit Award- Summon Gebrelibanos and Leo Li

American Chemical Society- Sage Synder and Nandhika Veeramalli

Green Environmental Friend Award: Rujula Kowalkar

Science Champion- Kevin Brothers

At Large Nominated students to STATE: Sarah Gauhar and Mihira Sumansekera

WE ARE PROUD OF OUR  BRUINS!

FBLA REGIONAL RESULTS

Accounting I - 1st place

Fizzah Syed

Advertising - 2nd place

Ali Dugla

Banking & Financial Sys - 3rd place   

Hira Gopang

Leo Li

Andrea Salazar Cortes

Broadcast Journalism - 1st place

George Givens

Kate Shuler

Business Ethics - 1st place

Olivia Martin

Mackenzie White

Laura Worth

Business Management - 3rd place

Visnupriya Gautam

Saanvi Vinod

Client Service - 1st place

Abby Waterman

Data Analysis - 2nd place

West Franklin

Kate Harrison

Krithik Napimpally

Economics - 2nd place

Omar Caballero

Electronic Career Portfolio - 1st place

Renelleda St. Hilaire

Entrepreneurship - 2nd place

Rachel Sprowles

Landon Hanners

Financial Statement Analysis - 1st place

Kiley Adkins

Jackson Wood

Future Business Educator - 1st place

Willa Perito

Graphic Design - 1st place

Benjamin Cullens

Alli Finewood

Healthcare Administration - 1st place

Mareeha Iqbal

International Business - 1st place

Grace Phillips

Introduction to Business Communication - 1st place

Fatima Brown

Introduction to Business Presentation - 3rd place

Lucy Bentley 

Reese Johnson

Madeleine Mowry

Introduction to Business Procedures - 3rd place

Sean Jennings

Introduction to Event Planning - 1st place

Alex Lundgard

Sriya Sangaraju

Introduction to FBLA - 1st place

Sameen Vantankhah

Introduction to Financial Math - 3rd place

Jackson Mowry

Introduction to public speaking - 3rd place

Ava Brent

Journalism - 1st place

Ben Teitel

Management Information Systems - 3rd place

Nicholas Hayden

Caleb Miller

Marketing - 2nd place

Jace Benner

Lily Berg

Victoria Spadafora

Networking infrastructure

Sam Pegliasco

Chapter Newsletter

Henry Fan

Nevaeh Winstead

Leticia Barbosa Prata

Miya Bellefant

Parliamentary Procedure - 2nd place

Carson Baker

Lucas David

Botand Krizsan

Olivia Mardis

Patrick Raderer

Sales Presentation - 2nd place

Caleb Harrison

Matthew Schwartz

Securities & Investments - 2nd place

Kelly Litzau

Spreadsheet Application - 2nd place

Kate Mardis

Visual Design 1st place

Jill Bennie

Avery Carlton

Word Processing - 2nd place 

Braxton Frazier

Chapter Bulletin Board

Remy Aldridge

Audrey Iglehart

Bailey Moreland

CONGRATULATION BRUINS!!

Regional Governors Cup Results 

Written Assessment Results (Top 5 places in each content area advance to State Finals Saturday March 9th)

• Mathematics: Cooper Russell 5th Place in Region

• Arts & Humanities: Taylor Thompson 4th Place in Region

• Science: Brennan Davis 2nd Place in Region

• Language Arts: Sam Shumway 2nd Place in Region

• Social Studies: Omar Caballero 4th Place in Region

Written Composition Results (Top 5 advanced to State Finals Saturday March 9th)

• 1st Place - Isabella Martinez in Region (Thank you to Jay Crocker for agreeing to grade the English writing this year again!)

Future Problem Solving Results (Top 2 advance to State Finals Friday March 8th)

• 1st Place - Kentucky Country Day

• 2nd Place - Ballard High School (Eman Hamada, Makaylah ONeill, Isabella Martinez, Amelia Dries)

Quick Recall Results (Top 2 advance to State Finals Sunday March 10th and March 11th)

• 1st Place - Trinity High School

• 2nd Place - Ballard High School (Omar Caballero, Sam Shumway, Rikki Pardue, Brennan Davis, Romeo Tapia, Taylor Thompson)

• Ballard played Trinity in the first round and beat them 36-18, We had to beat them three times to win the championship and fell short in the last two matches by 3 points in a very close battle.  Both teams advance to the Pool play rounds at the Galt House on March 10th (and may advance to Monday’s Finals Bracket depending on Sunday’s record)

OVERALL DISTRICT GOVERNORS CUP POINTS:

• 1st Place - Trinity High School 47.5 points

• 2nd Place - Ballard High School 27.5 points

• 3rd Place - Louisville Collegiate School 20.5 points

• 4th Place - Kentucky Country Day School 17.5 points

• 5th Place - Mercy Academy 6 points

• 6th Place - Assumption 5 points

• 7th Place Tie - (0 points earned) - Sacred Heart, Atherton, Eastern, Jeffersontown, Fern Creek, Seneca, Southern, Moore, Phoenix School

41st BHS Science Fair Awards! 

Animal Science: 

1st Niko Burklow

2nd Connor Burkholder

Behavioral and Social:

1st Sarah Gauhar

2nd Lillian Payne

3rd Fatima Brown

Honorable Mention: Allysa Pollard

Biochemistry:

1st Muhilan Balasubramanian

2nd Nandika Veerimali

3rd Bhavyasree Puchakayla

Biomedical Health: 

1st Dolores Wood

2nd Megan Helander

3rd Satya Ambati

Honorable mention: Anusha Gadekari

Chemistry: 

1st Sage Synder

2nd Alyssa Jones

3rd Elizabeth Falkner

Honor Mention : Emily King

Earth and Environmental: 

1st Grace Reck

Embedded Systems: 

1st. Easha Heelage

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design: 

1st Owen Yoffe

2nd Mirhira Sumanesekera

Honorable Mention: Yalini Ravishankar

Engineering Technology: Statics and Dynamics:

1st. Eldino Kilim

2nd Nathan Pennell

3rd Jawad Chaudhry

Honorable Mention: John Richards

Environmental Engineering: 

2nd George Reeves and Maddie Thompson

3rd Rujula Kolwalkar

Materials Science: 

1st Claire Sharon

2nd Connor Hamm

3rd Jake Glogower

Honorable Mention: Alexandra Barghout 

Mathmatics: 

1st Penelope Kincaid

2nd Nora Adler and Pryia Gautam

3rd Braxton  Thompson

Microbiology: 

1st Henry Fan and Reva Kapoor

2nd Emily Gdowski 

Honorable Mention:  Liliah Price and Lucas David

Physics and Astronomy: 

1st Ahmed Al Rawi

2nd Sophia Sapienza

3rd Henry Allen

Plant Science: 

1st Elyse Wilcox

2nd Jackson May 

3rd Addison Angemeier

Robotics and Intelligent Machines: 

1st Henry Carnahan

2nd Summon Gebrelibanos

Systems Software: 

1st Kevin Brothers

2nd Aarush Rajguru

3rd. Prajwal Rajashekar

Technology Enhances the Arts: 

1st Leona Haight

Translational Medical Science: 

1st Zanab Pervez 

Varsity Academic Team

Congratulations to the Varsity Academic Team for a JCPS League Tournament 2nd Place finish. 

Sam Shumway - 1st Place in JCPS Language Arts

Omar Caballero - 3rd Place in JCPS Language Arts

Taylor Thompson - 4th Place in JCPS Mathematics, 5th Place in JCPS Arts and Humanities

Brennan Davis - 4th Place in JCPS Science, 4th Place in JCPS Social Studies

Cooper Russell - 5th Place in JCPS Mathematics

2nd in JCPS Quick Recall Regular Season (hardware incoming)

2nd in JCPS Quick Recall Tournament (hardware incoming)

They will continue their dominance next week at the KAAC Governors Cup Districts Academic Team Events, in hopes of advancing to Regionals and eventually States (they have already qualified for Nationals in May)!

Please congratulate these students as well as the rest of our Academic Team on their performance this fall season.

Microsoft Office Specialist 2023 State Championship Fall Qualifier Results

During the break, the Microsoft Office Specialist 2023 State Championship Fall Qualifier results were announced. Ballard is once again well represented in the Kentucky results for PowerPoint.

1st place - Hayden Sanders

3rd place - Yarlini Ravishankar

8th place - Andrew Fagan

As the Kentucky Fall Qualifier PowerPoint Champion, Hayden Sanders has been invited to compete in the MOS National Championships in Orlando, FL this summer.

Congratulations!!

CONGRATS TO THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS ON THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS!!!

ALL COUNTY CONCERT BAND

• Luke Ashley, Clarinet - 6th Chair

• Clayton Long, Tenor Saxophone - 2nd Chair

• Trevor Heitz, Trumpet - 8th Chair

• Ryan Martin, Trombone - 1st Chair

• Joel Lee, Euphonium - 2nd Chair

• Kaylen Sheth, Tuba - 1st Chair

ALL COUNTY SYMPHONIC BAND

• Sam Kik, ,Trombone - 6th Chair

ALL COUNTY WIND ENSEMBLE

• Annabelle McClellan, Flute - 6th Chair

• Gabriel Shea, Baritone Saxophone - 1st Chair

ADVANCING TO ALL STATE ROUND TWO

• Annabelle McClellan, Flute

• Gabriel Shea, Baritone Saxophone 

Congrats to these outstanding musicians!  They will perform as members of the ALL-COUNTY BAND CONCERT on Thursday, November 30 @ 7:00 PM at Male High School.

CONGRATS to the Bruin Marching Band 

CONGRATS to the Bruin Marching Band on their Third Place Ranking at the PRP Derby City Classic!

Additional Awards

      Music Performance 2nd Place

      Color Guard - 1st Place

2023 College Board National Recognition Program Awardees

CONGRATULATIONS to the below students who earned this academic honor because of their GPA of 3.5 or higher and outstanding performance on the PSAT/NMSQT®, PSAT™ 10, and/or AP® Exams 

Awardees (as of August 17) at Ballard High School are listed below:

• Jada Washington: NAARA

• Madison Gomez: NHRA

• Omar Caballero: NHRA

• Summon Gebrelibanos: NAARA

Award Key:

National African American Recognition Award (NAARA)

National Hispanic Recognition Award (NHRA)

National Rural and Small Town Award (NRSTA)

National Indigenous Award (NIA) 

KMEA State Jazz Assessment and State Solo & Ensemble Festival @ UofL

On Friday the Ballard Jazz performed at the KMEA State Jazz Assessment. 

The ensemble performed exceptionally and received a Distinguished Rating!

On Saturday morning the following students performed at the State Solo & Ensemble Festival at the University of Louisville.  Each of these students had to qualify at the local level to be invited to participate.  I am very happy to report that they ALL received Distinguished ratings as well.  Students are listed below:

Annabelle McClellan, Flute Solo

Flute Quartet:          Annabelle McClellan

                             Alex Bradshaw

                             Zoe Matteson

                             Agustin Millan Uribe

Saxophone Quartet: Adon Rosales

                                 Greyson Sanders

                                 Clayton Long

                                 Gabriel Shea

Trombone Quartet: Seth Jolly

                                 Sam Kik

                                 Owen Yoffe

                                 Sam Tindall

Congratulations to these outstanding musicians!

Governor's School for Entrepreneurs

Congratulations to the following Ballard students accepted to the Governor's School For Entrepreneurs.

Jackson Broecker 11

Kirshika Lungani 10

Krithik Nadimpally 11

Alejandro Stewart 11

Ballard had the 2nd largest number of accepted students of all public or private schools in Jefferson County.

 Governor's School for the Arts

Congratulations to the following students for being accepted into the Governor's School for the Arts! 🎨 🎭 📸

Since 1987, GSA has hosted over 5,000 talented high school sophomores and juniors from across the state for their intensive summer program. Students audition for a coveted spot in one of 9 different arts disciplines (Architecture + Design, Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Film + Photography, Instrumental Music, Musical Theatre, Visual Art, or Vocal Music). For three weeks over the summer, they will be guided by a faculty of professional artists and educators on the campus of the University of Kentucky to live, breathe, eat, and sleep the arts! 

Eunice Fanai - Visual Art

Leila Reilly - Film + Photography

Allie Rahman - DramaG

Katie Gdowski - Alternate: Visual Art