National French Competition

Enloe Student's have done it again! Enloe has always had high scorers for the National French Competition and this year is no different. An incredible number of students have scored top 12 in the nation(with a few ties). Make sure to congratulate them when you see them.

French I - Teacher Julia Mastro

• Zachary Lowell - 3rd
• Farhan Khan - 4th
• Mattia Mahmoud - 8th
• Vamsi Varanasi - 9th

French II - Teacher Lidia Popescu

• Emily Cox - 5th
• Audrey Dubois - 5th
• Shriya Vohra - 5th
• Louis Jacobowitz - 6th
• Elisa Moore - 6th
• Laasya Renganathan - 8th
• Joseph Womble - 8th
• Jeffrey Thayery - 9th
• Rachel Oommen - 10th

French III - Teacher Lidia Popescu

• Tasmia Zaman - 7th
• Lily James - 10th
• Matthieu Seay - 11th
• Sarah Jewell - 12th
• Suraj Vege - 12th

French IIIC (originally from french speaking country)

• Jonathan Medju - 2nd

French IV - Teacher Lidia Popescu

• Lucien Batawi - 12th
• Molly Marcotte - 13th

French V - Teacher Julia Mastro

• Katherine Nelson - 2nd
• Robert Alfredson - 11th
• Molly Marcotte - 11th
• Alexandra Powell - 11th

French V C (originally from French speaking country)

• Alexandra Vidal - 5th

Additional congratulations should go to Kate Nelson, whose score qualified her for the French Embassy prize drawing for a trip for two weeks to study French in France. Congratulate her and wish her luck on the drawing!

FCCLA State Conference

Enloe students have done a wonderful job at FCCLA State Conference. 13 members competed in 8 events, ending the day with an incredible 2 bronze, 5 silver, and 1 gold medal, as well as an invitation to compete at Nationals in Nashville, TN this summer.

Please congratulate the following students on representing Enloe

• Agag, Michelle
• Alston, Janae
• Beynon, Devon
• Burton, Riana
• Doares, Jenna
• Escala, Rebekah
• Gray, Brittney
• Mollenkopf, Katelyn
• Myers, Samantha
• O'Brien, Emma
• Rivera, Maria
• Rechenberg, Madison
• Smith, Makayla Lawson

USA Junior Mathematics Olympiad

Please congratulate Evan Liang and Franklin Chen for qualifying for USAJMO. They will compete in a two day event at the end of April.

DECA State Competition

The DECA Organization attended the State Competition in Greensboro, NC from March 3-5. The students all did a wonderful job. We had 24 of the 26 students made proficient on the exam portion of competition. We had 14 of the 26 students medal for having a high exam or role play.

• Tyler Tirpak finished in 4th in the state in Business Finance and 1st in the state in Accounting Applications
• Bryce Santiago and Vidula Reddy finished in 2nd in the state in Sports and Marketing Team Competition
• Joey Cables finished in the top 10 in state in Automotive Services

Enloe Robotics Club

The Enloe Robotics Club competed in their first FRC Regional Event this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. They were selected to be part of the top alliance along with South East Raleigh and Southern New Hampshire. Together, they took first in the competition and have been invited to go to the International Competition in St. Louis, MO. Enloe was also the second ranked "rookie" team out of the eight this year. Please congratulate this students when you see them.

• Varun Mavilla
• Mitas Ray
• Shirkar Nunna
• TR Nolte
• Shantan Krovvidi
• Ani Kolla
• Ani Sankaran
• Ibrahim Abdeally
• Revanth Challuru
• Rohan Krihnamoorthy
• Tommy Luo
• Teja Peddada
• Andy Rather
• Chase Roycroft
• Akaash Sanyal
• Armaan Sethi
• Harshal Singh
• Visrut Sudhakar
• Shantanu Sharma

Park Scholarship Winners

A huge congratulations to Dhruv Jain and Lauren Frey for being offered the PARK Scholarship at NC State. This Scholarship not only gives a full ride to NC State, but also offers special opportunities like summer study, travel abroad, and other amazing experiences. When you see them please give them a huge congratulations for this amazing feat.

literature Contest

Senior Emily Wayland won the Society of Plastics Engineers’ Essay Contest, “The Wonders of Plastics.” Emily will receive a new ipad that will be presented to her at the Feb 5th SPE meeting. The school will receive a check for $250.00.

Sixty one seniors have had their poems accepted for publication in the Creative Communication Poetry Contest.

Eighty one seniors have had their essays accepted for publication in the Creative Communication Essay Contest. Enloe High School was the only school from North Carolina to be chosen.

Quiz Bowl Results

Please congratulate the A and B teams on their fantastic results at the Western NC Shoot-out in Granite Falls today. The A team took 2nd place and the B team took 3rd place. Both teams have now earned a bid for HSNQT (Nationals) in Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend.

The B team's only loss for the day was to the A team. Nathan Lasala took 2nd place overall in scoring at the tournament. Illirik Smirnov and Shantan Krovvidi also scored in the top 10. The A team's only losses were to Early College of Guilford's A team whom they had to play twice due to the Swiss pairings seeding.

Eagle Battalion Drill Team Results

Congratulations go out to the Eagle Battalion Color Guard, Drill Team and SFC Williams for an excellent performance this weekend. We competed at Cleveland High School against 15 schools from throughout the state of NC. Below are the team members and how we place in events.

• 1st Place - Color Guard Members: A. Morock, J. Cables, T. McKnight and B. Lipscomb
• 1st Place – Regulation Drill Squad: T. Cordes, S. Boyd, C. Brooks, D. Onyemize, T. McKnight, D. McKnight and B. Lipscomb
• 2nd Place - Exhibition Rifle: T. Cordes, T. McKnight, A. Morock, B. Lipscomb, J. Cables, S. Johnson
• 2nd Place - Exhibition Drill Duet: D. McKnight and C. Brooks
• 2nd Place - Regulation Drill Platoon and Armed Drill Platoon: S. Boyd, R. Rodgers, M. Adams, D. Onyemize, T. McKnight, D. McKnight, C. Brooks, B. Lipscomb, J. Cables, T. Cordes, A. Morock, A. Downing and S. Johnson

Enloe Robotics Club

The Enloe Robotics Club competed in their first FRC Regional Event this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I am extremely proud to announce that our team was selected to be part of the top alliance, which comprised of the Robodogs from South East Raleigh, and Mechanical Mayhem from Southern New Hampshire. This alliance worked together and placed first in the competition. We have been invited to go to the International Competition in St. Louis, MO this April!!! We were also the second ranked "rookie" team out of the eight new "rookie" teams this year. Please join me in congratulating these students (a few of which are in Greensboro with me at the TSA competition and will be back in school Wednesday):

• Varun Mavilla
• Mitas Ray
• Shirkar Nunna
• TR Nolte
• Shantan Krovvidi
• Ani Kolla
• Ani Sankaran
• Ibrahim Abdeally
• Revanth Challuru
• Rohan Krihnamoorthy
• Tommy Luo
• Teja Peddada
• Andy Rather
• Chase Roycroft
• Akaash Sanyal
• Armaan Sethi
• Harshal Singh
• Visrut Sudhakar
• Shantanu Sharma

Odyssey of the Mind

We had several groups of students that went to "Odyssey of the Mind" regional competition. Below are the students that entered and placed! Be sure to congratulate them.

Architecture: The Musical (2nd Place)

• Akhila Boyina
• Julie John
• Sirisha Karra
• Linh Ly
• Melissa Nie
• Amanda Reza

It's How You Look At It (2nd Place)

• Harper Blades
• Abhay Donthi
• Helen Glazunov
• Vishnu Gottiparthy
• Joanne Thayil
• Ramya Varadarajan

Pet Project (2nd Place)

• Kyle Lustria
• Keshav Patel
• Pavan Pratyush
• Akshay Sankar
• Visrut Sudhakar

Tumblewood (3d Place)

• Pranav Kemburu
• Vindhya Kolluru
• Justin Ledinh
• Khushbu Patel
• Nishant Singh
• Laasya Vulimiri

Governor's School 2013

Please say "congrats" to these students when you see them - they were accepted to Governor's School 2013!

• Ruth Ong (Art)
• Alexandra Vidal (Soprano Voice)
• Julia Colbert (Dance)
• Kaylan Sayre (Dance)
• Mady Brann (Dance)
• Sarah Smoak (Music)
• Sumiyah Enayet (Natural Science)
• Aashay Patel (Social Science)
• Barak Biblin (Social Science)
• Harley Payne (Social Science)

WSSU Math Contest Results

Please congratulate the Enloe team that competed at WSSU today. Three students qualified to move on to the State Math Meet next month Jenny Wang (5th place), Cindy Chen (4th place) and Peter Luo (1st place). The team also took 1st place overall! This is the second year in a row that the team has taken home the first place trophy, and the fourth year they have placed in the top 3 teams overall. I hope you enjoy the picture of our winning Eagles!

The Wake Tech Comprehensive and Algebra II teams will compete on Thursday. David Smith is taking the teams to Wake Tech this year so I don't have to be out two days in a row. I know he will have great news for us!

Wake Tech Math Meet

A big thanks to Dave Smith who took the Algebra II and Comprehensive Teams to Wake Tech today. The Algebra II team took 3rd place overall, but no individual student qualified for the State Algebra II contest. Rishi Sundaresan took 9th place on the Comprehensive Team, Evan Liang took 6th, Justin Luo took 3rd and Franklin Chen took 1st place. Enloe took first place team honors again. Rishi, Evan, Justin and Franklin will attend the State Math Contest next month at NCSSM. Yujian Tang, who finished 10th in the individual comprehensive competition, will also be going to the State Finals in Greensboro. Please give these students a high five tomorrow for their awesome performance!

Scholastic Art and Writing Award Winner Julie Xing

Julie Xing has earned a silver medal for poetry in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2013. Julie has been identified by a panel of creative professionals as one of the most talented young artists and writers in the nation. This year, 230,000 works of art and writing were submitted. Only the top 1% were recognized at the national level.

History Day Winners

We can be proud of our History students that entered the National History Day Project Competition. All four entries that submitted to the regional competition at Greensboro will be advancing to the State competition. Please congratulate the following students:

• First place Documentary - Nimit Desai, Hal Lin, and Peter Cheng
• Third place Documentary - Joseph Womble, Mounark Patel, and Hari Tetala
• First place Individual Senior Exhibit - Audrey Dubois
• First place Individual Senior Website - James Zhang

April 27th is the state competition that will determine who will go on to National competition.

NC Chinese writing and speach contest result

18 students from our school participated in 2013 North Carolina Chinese speech and Chinese writing contest. Chinese Writing contest winners from our school are:

• 1st place: Hal Lin
• 2nd place winners: Teresa Meng, James Zhang
• 3rd place winners: Jerry pan
• Honor award: Kyla Qi, Jiacee Huang, Selena Zhang
• Speech contest Honor reward: Aimee Kurtz

Please congratulate those students on their achievements.

Enloe High Debate

Enloe debate Team took third place this weekend at states. They worked hard and all did very well. Those that went on the debate trip were:

• Illirik Smirnov
• Meghana Kodali
• Guari Joshi
• Vamsi Varanasi
• Vinit Ranjan
• Sajeth Dinakaran
• Barack Biblin
• Kyra Jasper

Also be sure to congratulate Barack Biblin for taking 3rd in Congress and taking home the best presiding officer award.

Engineering Club/TSA Conference results

Enloe's Engineering Club/TSA (Technology Student Association) went to Greensboro last week and competed in the State Conference. Enloe placed 15 times, with 1st place in two events- Biotechnology Design with a team of 5 students (Radhika Pasi, Kaan Peksenar, Hudson Ayers, Shrijan Tallury, Vivek Hebbar) and Technical Sketching Application by James Homiller. We won second place 8 times, and third place 5 times. The students were excellent representatives of Enloe High School.

Winners of National Chinese Cultural Knowledge Contest

Four students from Enloe, Ruguan Liu, Melissa Nie, Qiyuan Pan and Hal Lin, attended the First National Chinese Cultural Knowledge Contest. All four of them won rewards. Hal Lin won the first prize with 100% correct answers. They have been invited to attend 2-week summer camp in Beijing China, in July 2013. All the cost will be covered by China.

Please congratulate them on their success.

HOSA Students Compete at State

Please join me in congratulating the Enloe HOSA students who competed at state this past weekend. In their first year of competition 25 out of 32 students placed in top 10 with 3 students qualifying for nationals. They did a phenomenal job and I am so proud of their work.

• Maria Tsikerdanos- Pharmacology- 1st place
• Teresa Meng- Epidemiology- 2nd place
• Sophia Hu- Medical Reading- 2nd place
• Michelle Agag, Vaishu Jawahar, Rashmi Muttukumar, Shatakshi Shekar- HOSA BOWL Team – Top 10
• Bhavath Biyyala-Dental Terminology – Top 10
• Akhila Boyina, Malay Shah, Tejas Rajaram, Radhika Pasi- Medical Debate- Top 10
• Angela Chun, Melody Lin- CPR-Top 10
• Nimit Desai, Manthi Dissanayake, Niha Palakodety, Pranov Kembru- Top 10
• Vidhya Kolluru- Extemporaneous health poster- Top 10
• Sahiti Marella- Extemporaneous health poster- Top 10
• Gracie Li- Human Growth and Development- Top 10
• Aashay Patel- Medical Terminology- Top 10
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• Keshav Patel- Dental Terminology- Top 10
• Neal Patel- Dental Spelling- Top 10
• Mahi Yetekuri- Nutrition- Top 10

Special Recognition- Sadhana Anatha, Helen Glazanov, Akil Guruparan, Kiara Kelly, Jahnavi Yetekuri, Julia Zhang, Meera Deva

Special thanks to Mrs. Massengill and Mr. Reeves for assisting the HOSA team this past weekend and helping create a successful weekend!

State Math Contest Results

Enloe's math students cleaned up on 4/11 at the State Math Contest. Overall, Evan Liang took 8th place, followed by Justin Luo at 10th, Jenny Wang at 11th, Franklin Chen at 13th place and Yujian Tang at 17th. These students have been guaranteed a slot on the North Carolina ARML team (which took #1 in the nation last year). They will be going to the University of Georgia to compete the weekend of June 1-2. Matthew Zheng, Cindy Chen and Peter Luo took honorable mention in the top 40. Many of you will remember Calvin Deng, Jason Liang and Tejas Sundaresan. All have been accepted to MIT. Tejas is still deciding between MIT and Princeton. Jason is considering multiple colleges. Calvin won the contest and has been offered a full scholarship to Duke. He has a choice of a full-ride to Duke, a partial ride to Harvard and a no-funding option at MIT (they never give out scholarships). Please remember that these students got their foundations here at Enloe, not just in math and science, but in English, social studies, and second languages. I cannot imagine any of them being accepted to such wonderful universities without writing exceptional essays with their applications. I know they are very appreciative of the two years they had at Enloe!

Dontor's Journey

Dontor's Journey, the documentary featuring our own Dontor Rmah has won a Student Emmy for best long form fiction at the Mid-South Emmy Awards. Please congratulate Carson Roach-Howell, Carly Dawson, Thomas Joines, Julian Tran, Shannon Campbell and Kayla Joncich for their excellent work.

National Merit Finalists

13 students from Enloe qualified for National Merit Finalists.

• Gautam Adusumilli
• Helena Arose
• Hudson Ayers
• Brian Darst
• Deepthi Gowrishankar
• Akil Guruparan
• Vivek Hebbar
• Tommy Luo
• Graeme Peterson
• Aribah Shah
• River Wu
• Vanessa Wu
• Minami Yoshizawa

Please be sure to congratulate out 13 finalists. This is quite a feat.

Enloe Debate Team

Enloe's debate team did great this weekend while representing you at the EE Smith High School Debate Tournament. We had a number of students place in their events and Enloe took third overall.

• Sajeth Dinakaran - 2nd in Lincoln Douglas Debate
• Pallavi Gulati - Only undefeated debater and 1st place Novice Lincoln Douglas Debate
• Kyra Jasper - 6th in Congress Debate
• Prakhar Naithani - 4th in Congress Debate
• Vinit Ranjan - 4th in Public Forum Debate
• Malay Shah - 3rd in Congress Debate
• Illirik Smirnov - 2nd in Congress Debate
• Vamsi Varanasi - 4th in Public Forum Debate

If you see these students be sure to congratulate them, they worked really hard!!!

Park Scholarship Finalists

Dhruv Jain and Lauren Frey were 2 of the 105 Park Scholarship Finalists recently selected from nearly 1,650 candidates from across North Carolina and the United States! They were selected following interviews conducted by 200 NC State and Park Scholarship alumni. They have been invited for final selection activities on Fri, Feb 22 and Sat, Feb 23. During this time, they will have the opportunity to meet faculty, alumni, current Park Scholars, and other distinguished guests, and will take part in assessments intended to identify exceptional potential in the areas of scholarship, leadership, service and character.

Dhruv and Lauren's selection as finalists is most definitely a testament to the strength of Enloe HS's academic and co-curricular programs as well as the dedicated support you ALL provide our students at school and through letters of recommendation.

Please Congratulate Dhruv and Lauren on this remarkable recognition!

American Invitational Mathematics Examination

We had 12 AIME qualifiers from the 10/12A contest on Feb 4th. These students will sit for the 3-hour American Invitational Mathematics Exam on Thursday, March 14th, as the next step toward qualification for the USA Mathematics Olympiad. Please congratulate these students on their outstanding performance!

• Yujian Tang (top score on the 12A)
• Justin Luo
• Tommy Luo
• River Wu
• Kevin Cao
• Franklin Chen (top score on the 10A)
• Cindy Chen
• Evan Liang
• Peter Luo
• Rishi Sundaresan
• Jenny Wang
• Michael Yang

These 12 students will also attend one of the three regional math contests that Enloe attends next month in hopes of qualifying for the State Math Contest. More details about that a month from now.

Quiz Bowl

After a 3 month hiatus from tournaments, the Quiz Bowl teams journeyed to Winston-Salem to compete in the second annual Wake Forest Brain Summit. The A team finished 7-1 and tied with Raleigh Charter A for second place. The tie-breaker was average points per game which Raleigh Charter won, so we brought home the third place trophy. The team also qualified for the NAQT Nationals in Atlanta again this year and the PACE Nationals in College Park, Maryland. Justin Luo finished as the 6th highest scorer overall, Illirik Smirnov was 8th and Shantan Krovvidi on the B team took 10th place. Enloe was the only school with three scorers in the top 10. Please congratulate Rebecca Liu, Svetak Sundhar, Justin and Illirik for their big win and qualification for Nationals!

PTA Reflections Program

Once again, Enloe students have had great success in this year's national PTA Reflections Program! In November, the Enloe Reflections committee received 89 entries, exhibiting a fantastic range of talent from Enloe students. Congratulations to the twelve Enloe students with entries submitted for competition at the county level:

• Kathryn Rayn Mangum, dance choreography (10th grade)
• Amanda Reza, photography (10th grade)
• Paul Chung, visual arts (9th grade)
• Spencer Bloom, literature (12th grade)
• Emily Keough, literature (12th grade)
• Sambit Panda, literature (11th grade)
• Ashaki Reid, literature (11th grade)
• Aaron Reza, literature (11th grade)
• Jacob Wilson, literature (12th grade)
• Leila Wright, literature (12th grade)
• Vanessa Wu, literature (12th grade)
• Tyler Zack, literature (12th grade)

We are so pleased to announce that this year, Enloe had 4 winners at the county level! Congratulations to the three Enloe students who swept 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the category of literature: Vanessa Wu (1st place), Spencer Bloom (2nd place), and Emily Keough (3rd place). Congratulations also to Kathryn Mangum, who was awarded 2nd place in the category of dance choreography. Vanessa Wu's 1st place entry will move on to compete at the district level.

Way to go Enloe -- fine arts talent is alive and well with the Eagles!!

NC Honors Orchestra

The following students were selected to participate in the North Carolina Honors Orchestra. This orchestra is made up of 120 students from across the state. Enloe placed 10 students into this prestigious orchestra. The orchestra will meet in Winston-Salem Nov. 9-11 to rehearse with a nationally known clinician, and then perform for the opening of the 2012 NC Music Educators Conference.

• Melody Lin - Violin I
• Nishanth Shah - Violin I
• Tanika Bantukul - Violin II
• Gordon Ma - Violin II
• Rebecca Shen - Violin II
• Soomin Shin - Violin II
• Vishnu Gottiparthy - Viola
• Gen Palmer - Viola
• Albert Feng - Cello
• Amika Singh - Cello

NC HS Honors Chorus

When you see the following students, please congratulate them. They are a part of 176 students chosen out of 1200 who auditioned around the state for the NC HS Honors Chorus. Enloe is top in the state with the most students going!

• Robin Hardman (#1 rank in the state for bass I)
• Jordan Holoman (#2 rank in the state for Alto I)
• Alan Osuna (#4 rank in the state for Tenor I)
• Sarah Jewell (# 8 rank in the state for Alto II)

The following students were also chosen to participate in the Honors Chorus:

• Meredyth Albright (Soprano I)
• Melanie Piercy (Soprano II)
• Alex Vidal (Alto I)
• Madeline Pitchford (Alto I)
• Cory Arnold (Tenor II)
• Edgar Veloz (Tenor II)