PEORIA – Waubonsie Valley’s SkillsUSA team medaled in the Top 3 in 23 different categories at its Illinois Championships in Peoria in late April.

Surya Kalyan and Sanjith Yelevarthy won 2nd in the 3-D Animation and Visualization category. Rukaiya Mohammed Aroos and Maanya Srivastava placed 1st and 3rd, respectively, in the Basic Health Care Skills category. In Community Service, Anoushika Chetty, Shaurya Jain and Krish Lingayat won 3rd place. Siyansh Virmani (1st) and Soham Dongre (3rd) placed in the Customer Service category. Marco Campagna and Jay Singh (1st) and Ethan Dave and Krish Lingayat (2nd) placed in the Cybersecurity category. In Extemporaneous Speaking, Simran Tarigopula won 1st and Soham Dongre took 3rd. In the Internet of Things and Smart Home category, Sanandh Tummuri won 2nd place. In the Job Interview category, Siya Deshmukh won 3rd. Divya Baliga (1st) and Saina Arora (2nd) placed in the Medical Assisting category.

In Medical Math, Sara Bansal (1st) and Arjun Yalamati placed. Sanandh Tummuri won 1st in Mobile Electronics Installation. In Mobile Robotics Technology, Salily Patki and Sanjith Yelevarthy took 3rd. In the Prepared Speech category, Simran Tarigopula won 2nd. In Principles of Engineering, Zahra Chisti (1st), Granth Shetty (2nd) and Sanjith Yelevarthy (3rd) placed. In Quiz Bowl, Aayush Choudhary, Akshara Arikatla, Salil Patki, Hannah Lee and Arjun Yogesh won 2nd place. Azim Kazmi (1st) and Aryan Soni (2nd) placed in the Technical Spelling category.

For information on more awards and SkillsUSA, visit waubonsiemedia.org.

INDIANAPOLIS – Waubonsie Valley High School’s Project Lead the Way (PLTW) program was named as a Distinguished School for a 7th year.

PLTW is a national nonprofit organization that provides education and pathways in computer science, engineering, and biomedical science for PreK-12 students.

The PLTW Distinguished School recognition honors schools committed to increasing student access, engagement, and achievement in their PLTW programs. To be eligible for the designation, Waubonsie Valley had to meet multiple criteria in the 2023-24 school year, such as number of PLTW courses available to students, percent of students enrolled in PLTW, and percent of students taking more than one PLTW course.

Waubonsie Valley was one of only 29 Illinois High Schools to achieve Distinguished status. For more information on Project Lead the Way, visit pltw.org.

We are proud to announce that Waubonsie Valley has been recognized as Project Lead the Way (PLTW) 2023-2024 Distinguished School. This recognition means we are empowering students to thrive in an evolving world and achieving exemplary results from our PLTW high school programs. Waubonsie Valley is one of 291 PLTW high school programs across the country to receive recognition this year.  We are one of 13 Illinois high schools recognized. This is the 5th year Waubonsie has received this recognition. 

Past Recognition for this award:

Waubonsie Valley (2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023)

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