More than 340 Dripping Springs ISD elementary students competed at the district's UIL Academic Contest on Saturday, Dec. 2 at Sycamore Springs Middle School. The top-six finishers in each event are listed below by grade level.
Chess Puzzles
(2nd Grade)
1. Sebastian Garza, CSE
2. Luke Sanchez, DSE
3. Oliver Godard, RSE
4. William Buckingham, DSE 5. Oliver Steinman, DSE
6. Julian Fonseca, RSE
Chess Puzzles
(3rd Grade)
1. Ian Matar, RSE
2. Aaron Richards, WSE
3. Wolfgang Benites, WSE
4. Vivian Kapadia, RSE
5. Hayes Anderson, SSE
6. Alex Anderson, RSE
Chess Puzzles
(4th Grade)
1. Ryan Uppal, RSE
2. Sawyer Freed, WSE
3. Matthew Wrana, RSE
4. Anthony Santarcangelo, CSE 5. Riley Cook, CSE
6. Graham Blankenship, WSE
Chess Puzzles
(5th Grade)
1. Prentice Harris, SSE
2. Leo Hunter, RSE
3. Nathan Montalbano, WSE 4. Nico Sanchez, DSE
5. Rory Chandler, WSE; Carson Funk, RSE
Creative Writing
(2nd Grade)
1. Navya Ganeshkumar, DSE 2. Arjun Kolli, WSE
3. Finleigh Sheeran, WSE
4. Aaryav Karthikeyan, CSE
5. Sofia Pecina, CSE
6. Elle Blakeley, RSE
Maps, Graphs & Charts
(5th Grade)
1. James Quick, RSE
2. Aaron Burns, RSE
3. Dylan Wu, SSE
4. Jaxon Villa, SSE
5. Winston Laws, RSE
6. Luke Vanecek, CSE
Music Memory
(2nd Grade)
1. Micaela Umanzor, WSE
2. Hank Miller, SSE
3. Aarna Dukle, CSE
4. Emma Rodriguez, RSE
5. Mak Hatibovic, WSE
6. Paisley Jones, RSE; Ace Swank, SSE
Music Memory
(3rd Grade)
1. Matthew Duchamp, RSE
2. Hailey Jimenez, SSE
3. Piper Zaharias, SSE
4. Stiles Shevlin, SSE
5. Bethany Hoggatt, WSE
6. Rowan Kitchings, CSE
Music Memory
(4th Grade)
1. Graham Poli, DSE
2. Elsa Lucas, SSE
3. Jayden Noumsi, WSE
4. Colin Wright, DSE
5. Cason Bedingfield, WSE
6. Lauren Hendricks, WSE
Music Memory
(5th Grade)
1. Camila Gonzalez, SSE
2. Dominic Pizzulo, SSE
3. Tenley Williams, WSE
4. Parker Payne, RSE
5. Jones Wommack, SSE
6. Trevor DuBransky, DSE
Number Sense
(4th Grade)
1. Margaux Raguet, WSE
2. Louis LeBlanc, CSE
3. Sabina Gonzales, WSE
4. Logan Langford, RSE
5. Noah Reneau, DSE
6. Jaxon Pina, WSE
Number Sense
(5th Grade)
1. Tate Williams, WSE
2. Braden Booth, RSE
3. Pierce Fowler, RSE
4. Hudson Villoria, RSE
5. Barrett Knustrom, CSE
6. Micah Fridye, SSE
Number Sense
(6th Grade)
1. Grayson Heck, CSE
2. Aarav Jain, WSE
3. Sriman Sajjala, WSE
Oral Reading
(4th Grade)
1. Stone Nelson, DSE
2. Eliza Anderson, CSE
3. Leila Paige, CSE
4. Estelle Bale, WSE
5. Harlow Parr, SSE
6. Bronson Smith, WSE
Oral Reading
(5th Grade)
1. Lucy Stone, CSE
2. Sunny Hughes, CSE
3. Chloe Hogg, RSE
4. Aria Fulce, RSE
5. Giuliana Percenti, RSE
6. Scarlett Ingles, WSE
Ready Writing
(3rd Grade)
1. Hattie Miller, SSE
2. Hudson Repko, DSE
3. Evelyn Cervenka, CSE
4. Olivia Lussier, CSE
5. Lilyana Oleksy, DSE
6. Reed Simon, CSE
Ready Writing
(4th Grade)
1. Lucy Burgoyne, WSE
2. Etta Benson, DSE
3. Emily Harris, DSE
4. Pooja Rangaraju, WSE
5. Olivia Ketrenos, RSE
6. Vivian Smith, WSE
Ready Writing
(5th Grade)
1. Emily Schwarzlose, WSE
2. Zoey Baker, CSE
3. Sarah Roberts, SSE
4. Bianca Sarmiento, DSE
5. Sophia Ryan, RSE
6. Amelia Callas, RSE
Spelling
(3rd Grade)
1. Nishtha Ramrakhyani, RSE 2. Emily Friesenhahn, DSE
3. Isabel Arnold, SSE
4. Aiden Budhagoda, RSE
5. Evelyn Griffin, RSE
6. Everett Heck, CSE
Spelling
(4th Grade)
1. Avanti Joshi, RSE
2. Reid Butcher, CSE
3. Brecklyn Thomas, RSE
4. Everly Edwards, WSE
5. Audrey Peterson, RSE
6. Landry Gilbert, WSE
Spelling
(5th Grade)
1. Aditi Vishnubhatla, SSE
2. Abby Arnold, SSE
3. Harper Browning, RSE
4. Gracie Rex, WSE
5. Evelyn Ogden, RSE
6. Elouise Ramirez, DSE
Storytelling
(2nd Grade)
1. Ari Norden, RSE
2. Finley Anderson, SSE
3. Elizabeth Kelly, RSE
4. Kyler Kaspar, SSE
5. Maggie Males, SSE
6. Viraat Kadur, CSE
Storytelling
(3rd Grade)
1. Willa Snider, CSE
2. Cordelia Bruce, SSE
3. Henlee Hyde, CSE
4. Addy Hall, RSE
5. Sahar Chowdhury, DSE
6. Maanya Koluguri, DSE