STEM Academy TSA - PATSA State Leadership Conference 2026

Submitted by Ms. Jocelyn Long and Mr. Mike Marron, TSA Advisors

Thank you for your support of our TSA Chapter, this was our 15th year competing at the PATSA State Leadership Conference. We have 63 students participate, our largest group ever. We have many moving on the National TSA Leadership Conference, June 22nd – 26th at the Gaylord National Harbor. Congratulations to all of the students that attended and worked hard leading up to and during this event!

1st Place

PA Medical Technology – Diya Kumar, Arsha Malhotra, Snigda Palnati, Diya Saravanarajan, Saumya Srinivas, and Nidhi Veerendra

PA Safety Illustration – Snigdha Palnati

2nd Place

Music Production – Arha Bangera and Manav Vishnu (will represent PATSA at National Conference)

Technology Problem Solving – Akshay Karri and Akshaj Nair (will represent PATSA at National Conference)

3rd Place

Animatronics – Akshay Bodla, Yogi Patel, and Ikshu Varada (will represent PATSA at National Conference)

CAD Engineering – James Lin

Digital Video Production – Troy Gaitanopoulos, Miraan Jhaveri, Euchang Kim, Nate Shifter, and Ben Schifter (will represent PATSA at National Conference)

Future Technology & Engineering Teacher – Neel Srinivasan (will represent PATSA at National Conference)

4th Place

Senior Solar Spring – Vincent Gao, Arhan Levaku, and James Lin (will represent PATSA at National Conference)

Software Development – Neel Casula, Ajay Prem, Aayush Singh, and Neel Srinivasan (will represent PATSA at National Conference)

Chapter Team (Written) – Shreyasee Nanda

5th Place

Data Science and Analytics – Kartik Gupta and Ashutosh Pandey

Engineering Design – Davanshi Agarwal, Vamika Baddela, Akshaj Bodla, and Swarit Choudhari

System Controls – Shaun Mathew, Ikshu Varada, and Ailesh Vijayvergi

Virtual Reality Simulation – Vivaan Adiga, Christopher John, Aarav Magesh, Ishaan Negi, Ashutosh Pandey, and Aaron Sharma

6th Place

Robotics – Swarit Choudhari, Vedh Koppavarapu, Nirmal Vasanth, and Ailesh Vijayvergi

7th Place

PA Medical Technology – Ishan Ankem, Arnav Chavan, Ishaan Jay and Walker Kan

8th Place

Chapter Team – Tanvi Chigurupati, Shreyasee Nanda, Diya Saravanarajan, Saumya Sriniva, Sneha Talluri, and Sukriti Yadav

CAD Architecture – Euchang Kim

Drone Challenge – Swarit Choudhari, Vincent Gao, Arhan Levaku, James Lin, John Lueders and Ashutosh Pandey

Extemporaneous Speech – Shreyasee Nanda

Future Technology and Engineering Teacher – Diya Saravanarajan

Manufacturing Prototype - Troy Gaitanopoulos, Miraan Jhaveri, Manan Vachhani, Caleb Wang, Nate Shifter, and Ben Schifter

Music Production – Diya Kumar, Snigdha Palnati, and Nidhi Veerendra

Webmaster – Devanshi Agarwal, Shreyasee Nanda, Diya Saravanarajan, Sneha Talluri, and Sukriti Yadav

9th Place

Biotechnology Design – Vedh Koppikar, Arsh Kumar, Shaun Mathew, Ashutosh Pandey, and Yogi Patel

Fashion Design and Technology – Arsha Malhotra, Parker Nguyen, Nidhi Veerandra, and Gabriel Wochtl

Transportation Modeling – Eshaan Vankireddy

10th Place

Senior Solar Sprint – Jason Bernard, Euchang Kin, Liam Moghaddam, and Eshaan Vankireddy

PA Cybersecurity – Neel Casula and Aayush Singh