Students from Community Middle School, Grover Middle School, High School North, and High School South took a record number of awards at the recent Future Problem Solving State Bowl. Six hundred students, in grades 4 through 12, from 15 schools, participated in New Jersey Future Problem Solving program this year. Representing New Jersey at the International Competition will be WW-P students who took all nine awards: first place, second place, and third place in junior, middle, and senior divisions in the Global Issues Team Problem Solving Competition. In addition, WW-P students will represent New Jersey in Scenario Writing at the International Competition. The following are individual honors:
Global Issues Team Problem Solving
Junior Division. Team 007 from Grover Middle School took first place with team members include Praneel Chakraborty, Emily Huang, Rhea Kak, Kaylin Ku, Jacob Park, and Rayna Wuh. Team Einstein Pandas from Grover took second place with team members include Aakriti Dave, Emily Luo, Saikrishna Manojkumar, Raghav Ramesh, and Anika Shenoy. Team Super Solvers from Community Middle School took third place with team members include Eric Leung, Eric Kong, Neha Narayan, Sriya Bapatla, Aparna Rajesh, and Rohan Patel.
Middle Division. High School North’ Team Untitled took first place with Ryan Zhang, Diana Tang, Ritvik Vaish, Kriti Devasenapathy, and Catherine Wang. Middle Division. High School South’s Team AEYA took second place with Eric Liu, Alex Chang, Yi Wei, and Allison Lin. Community Middle School’s Team Wubba Duckees took third place with Anthony Zhang, Kelvin Chen, Michael Lin, Goutham Yalla, Ranjan Mahanth, and Jonathan Wang.
Senior Division. High School North’s Team BeMVPs took first place with Morven Chin, Vishan Nigam, Pratyush Trivedi, and Bolong Xu. High School North’s Team NorthStars took second place with Pastorales Liu, Taiway Kyon, Christopher Lai, and Andrew Ding. High School South’s Team Justice League took third place with Nishad Maskara, Akhil Dondapati, Andy Luo, and Allan Wang.
Individual Global
Issues Problem Solving
Senior Division. Max Puthenpura of High School North earned a second place award. Durgesh Prusty of High School North received a third place award.
Scenario Writing
Junior Division. Ishita Bhimavarapu and Aditya Kaushik of Community Middle School earned first place awards. Phalgun Garimella of Community Middle School received a third place award.
Middle Division. Katherine Xiong of Community Middle School earned a third place award.
Senior Division. Angela You of High School South earned a first place award. Michele Zhang of High School North received a second place award.
Action Plan Skits
Junior Division. Community Middle School’s Team Super Solvers took third place with Eric Leung, Eric Kong, Neha Narayan, Sriya Bapatla, Aparna Rajesh, and Rohan Patel.
Middle Division. Community Middle School’s Team 42 Teddies took first place with Kristina Khaw, Hasit Dantara, Daniel Wang, Harini Srinivasan, Shambhavi Mishra, and Anna Hsu. High School South’s Team Malaydees took second place with Malay Trivedi, Manogna Konduri, Sharon Zhang, and Amrita Suresh. Community Middle School’s Team Derby Donuts took third place with Kavitha Rao, Tim Dai, Jessica Xu, Vidushi Vashist, Shivani Prusty, and Srinidhi Ananth.
Senior Division. Team The W-Team took first place with Geetika Guruprasad, Anusha Chintalapati, Neha Nadkarni, and Winston Su.
