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More than 250 Dripping Springs ISD elementary students competed at the UIL Academic District Contest on Saturday, Dec. 7 at Sycamore Springs Middle School. The top three finishers in each event are listed below.
Chess Puzzles (2nd Grade) 1st: Charles Naquin, CSE
2nd: Rish Surti, SSE
3rd: Rowan Morris, RSE
Chess Puzzles (3rd Grade) 1st: Avish Parikh, RSE
2nd: Oliver Godard, RSE
3rd: Aaryav Karthikeyan, CSE
Chess Puzzles (4th Grade) 1st: Duncan Vallee, DSE
2nd: Wolfgang Benites, WSE
3rd: Aaron Richards, WSE
Chess Puzzles (5th Grade) 1st: Ryan Uppal, RSE
2nd: Sawyer Freed, WSE
3rd: Ben Austin, CSE
Creative Writing (2nd Grade) 1st: Evie Chang, DSE
2nd: Elsie Paxton, SSE
3rd: Clara Boehm, CSE
Maps, Graphs & Charts (5th Grade) 1st: Shrihan Karthikeyan, CSE
2nd: Elijah Norden, RSE
3rd: Jack Urban, CSE Music Memory (2nd Grade) 1st: Chloe Comai, RSE
2nd: Kennedy Halbrook, RSE
3rd: Elise Stansell, WSE
Music Memory (3rd Grade) 1st: Caroline Dietz, CSE
2nd: Carys Gilligan, RSE
3rd: Blake Jones, SSE
Music Memory (4th Grade) T1st: Bethany Hoggatt, WSE
T1st: Bobby Duchamp, RSE T1st: Stiles Shevlin, SSE T1st: Hailey Jimenez, SSE
Music Memory (5th Grade) 1st: Henry Naylor, SSE
2nd: Ava Hammer, SSE
3rd: Jalen Henry, SSE
Number Sense (4th Grade) 1st: Aarav Desai, SSE
2nd: Ranjith Chitturi, WSE
3rd: Anderson Haire, WSE
Number Sense (5th Grade) 1st: Ian Matar, RSE
2nd: Vivan Kapadia, RSE
3rd: Margaux Raguet, WSE
Number Sense
(6th Grade Level)
1st: Hudson Villoria, RSE
2nd: Hunter Wottrich, RSE
Oral Reading (4th Grade) 1st: Maanya Koluguri, DSE
2nd: Zoe Akavan, DSE
3rd: Eden Knox, DSE
Oral Reading (5th Grade) 1st: Bronson Smith, WSE
2nd: Stone Nelson, DSE
3rd: Margot Labit, SSE
Ready Writing (3rd Grade) 1st: Samuel Robinson, CSE
2nd: Abhi Amerneny, SSE
3rd: Zoey Dinh, RSE
Ready Writing (4th Grade) 1st: Grace Fox, RSE
2nd: Olivia Lussier, CSE
3rd: Hattie Miller, SSE
Ready Writing (5th Grade) 1st: Genevieve Paxton, SSE
2nd: Elin Logan, SSE
3rd: Madison McCall, WSE
Spelling (3rd Grade)
1st: Ananya Vishnubhatla, SSE
2nd: Anika Pendse, SSE
3rd: Elliott Ogden, RSE
Spelling (4th Grade)
1st: Nishtha Ramrakhyani, RSE
2nd: Emily Friesenhahn, DSE
3rd: Fiona Wilburn, WSE
Spelling (5th Grade)
1st: Avanti Joshi, RSE
2nd: Landry Gilbert, WSE
Storytelling (2nd Grade) 1st: Sumedha Kamatham, DSE
2nd: Ayda Harrell, DSE
3rd: Bellamie Koontz, RSE
Storytelling (3rd Grade) 1st: Ari Norden, RSE
2nd: Elizabeth Kelly, RSE
3rd: Kyler Kaspar, SSE
