Rockwood Students Earn State Awards, Qualify for HOSA International Leadership Conference

More than 70 Rockwood School District students qualified for the HOSA-Future Health Professionals International Leadership Conference (ILC) at the Missouri HOSA State Leadership Conference (SLC) in Rolla on March 24-25.

Students from Eureka, Lafayette and Marquette high schools were among the 1,202 participants from 93 chapters competing at the SLC, in both individual and team events. A total of 29 Rockwood students finished first in their individual or team event and 20 each finished second and third.

SLC qualifiers are eligible to participate at the ILC from June 18-21 in Nashville, Tennessee.

In addition, nine Lafayette students advanced to compete at the ILC by finishing in the top 25 percent in the state in the Healthcare Issues Exam, 19 Rockwood students earned top-10 finishes in exams at the Academic Testing Center, and seven Rockwood students were honored for their volunteerism with the Barbara James Service Award.

Congratulations to these outstanding students! Check below for more information.

Competitive Events (top 3 advance to International Leadership Conference)

1^st Place

• Ethan Barbin, Taylor Pike, Stephen Shaji and Stallone Woodbury, Eureka (Creative Problem Solving)
• Lauren Callahan, Eureka (Extemporaneous Writing-Health Policy)
• Mateo Chapa Ponce, Lafayette (Dental Science)
• Vedu Chimakurthy, Rohan Gopalan, Shaheer Iqbal and Timothy Zheng, Lafayette (Medical Innovation)
• Anjali Gottumukkala and Teju Tadi, Marquette (CERT Skills)
• Jessica Guan, Lafayette (Epidemiology)
• Malak Kamil Qastoma, Lafayette (Pharmacology)
• Mahita Karnati, Annie Kee, Jada Manning, Annanya Sethi, Ana Singh and Lindsay Wang, Marquette (MRC Partnership)
• Dhruti Kondamadugula and Lalitaditya Vasanth, Marquette (Health Career Display)
• Tanujha Manikandan, Anshu Rajoli and Shree Senthilnathan, Marquette (Health Education)
• Tanvi Narendrula, Marquette (Dental Terminology)
• Abhinav Rao, Pranav Visveswaran and Vignesh Viswanathan, Lafayette (Public Health)

2nd Place

• Asin Ahmed and Taylor Hawthorne, Marquette (Forensic Science)
• Abhi Boga, Sparsh Singh, Arvind Sunilkumar and Adit Swami, Lafayette (Medical Innovation)
• Saanvi Boinepally, Sanjana Diraviyam, Lekha Mulinti and Sarayu Nemmadi, Marquette (Mental Health Promotion)
• Sandhya Chandran, Marquette (Healthy Living)
• Deetya Ladi, Saanvi Makkapati and Samridhi Singh, Marquette (MRC Partnership)
• Avalyn Long, Lafayette (Clinical Nursing)
• Aradhya Malik, Lafayette (Researched Persuasive Writing and Speaking)
• Abhijith Nair, Marquette (Research Poster)
• Aditi Roy, Lafayette (Clinical Specialty)
• Hasini Tipparti, Lafayette (Respiratory Therapy)
• Oluwatose Toriola, Lafayette (Medical Spelling)

3rd Place

• Aditya Anantapally, Ashvik Kothari and Vihaan Punjabi, Lafayette (Medical Innovation)
• Pratik Bhattiprolu, Ritesh Gouni and Mihir Patel, Marquette (Creative Problem Solving)
• Mahi Chechani, Lafayette (Researched Persuasive Writing and Speaking)
• Grace Dai, Marquette (Epidemiology)
• Alexa Kerber, Marquette (Human Growth and Development)
• Lydia Lehmann, Lafayette (Biotechnology)
• Sri Mallepeddi, Sahasra Rangineni, Vivian Zhang and Kim Zhou, Lafayette (Community Awareness)
• Alexandra Mimlitz, Alexis Sandberg and Shruthi Senthil, Lafayette (Public Service Announcement)
• Uma Narayanan, Lafayette (Medical Spelling)
• Sarrinah Sheikh, Lafayette (Family Medicine Physician)
• Lily Wang, Marquette (Dental Terminology)

Academic Testing Center Results

• Jessica Guan, Lafayette, 1st (Allied Health Statistics)
• Oluwatose Toriola, Lafayette, 1st (Environmental Health)
• Noah Bairu, Lafayette, 2nd (Physics College)
• Bilal Sunasara, Marquette, 2nd (Allied Health Statistics)
• Anjali Gottumukkala, Marquette, 3rd (Human Heredity)
• Tanvi Narendrula, Marquette, 3rd (Microbiology)
• Om Chandge, Marquette, 4th (Physics College)
• Lydia Lehmann, Lafayette, 4th (Anatomy & Physiology)
• Sarrinah Sheikh, Lafayette, 4th (Allied Health Statistics)
• Sudeep Vadderaju, Marquette, 5th (Physics College)
• Emily Xu, Marquette, 5th (Leadership)
• Jada Manning, Marquette, 6th (Environmental Health)
• Sunjay Ramamoorthy, Marquette, 6th (Leadership)
• Sarayu Nemmadi, Matquette, 7th (Physics College)
• Teju Tadi, Marquette, 7th (Math for Health Professionals)
• Shre Manikandan, Marquette, 9th (Human Heredity)
• Asin Ahmed, Marquette, 10th (General Chemistry)
• Risha Kaul, Marquette, 10th (Math for Health Professionals)
• Abhiram Permareddy, Marquette, 10th (Leadership)

Healthcare Issues Exam

• Starlet Aghajanyan, Lafayette, 2nd overall
• Mahitha Donepudi, Lafayette, top 25%
• Vedha Inampudi, Lafayette, top 25%
• Malak Kamil Qastoma, Lafayette, top 25%
• Lydia Lehmann, Lafayette, top 25%
• Avalyn Long, Lafayette, top 25%
• Suchir Ryali, Lafayette, top 25%
• Shruthi Senthil, Lafayette, top 25%
• Sarrinah Sheikh, Lafayette, top 25%

Barbara James Service Award

• Emma Pieper, Marquette, Silver Level National Recognition (175-249 volunteer hours)
• Sarah Scaff, Lafayette, Silver Level National Recognition
• Teju Tadi, Marquette, Silver Level National Recognition
• Tej Atwal, Lafayette, Bronze Level National Recognition (100-174 volunteer hours)
• Rahul Modugu, Marquette, Bronze Level National Recognition
• Yashu Senthilkumar, Lafayette, State Certificate of Recognition
• Nila Swaminathan, Lafayette, State Certificate of Recognition