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Congratulations for winning first place in the To Be Honest Fall '23 Art Contest!  Vishaka is an incredibly talented and tenacious student. We are beyond proud of all their hard work and dedication! They should be so proud of themselves and remember this moment always. Way to go Vishaka!!!!

2023 Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Selection

Has been selected to play in the Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Football Game on February 3rd. Congratulations Noah!!

Two EV students made the All State Ensembles this year! They made it in two of the most competitive sections and they are both in the Symphonic Band. 

This means they are in the top 200 band musicians in the state of California! They will perform in January in Sacramento.

• Eleanor Yang, Senior- Flute (2nd year All State)

• Sean Koh, Freshman- Percussion (1st Year All State)

Isha Bajpai competed at the 2023 US Open for Table Tennis held in Ontario, California on Dec. 16-21st.  She won a bronze medal in the Girls U17 Doubles event. 

Nisa Keshwani has achieved a prestigious milestone in Curling by qualifying for the highly competitive Under 18 National Curling Championship, notably serving as the Skip (Team Captain). Team Keshwani will be representing the Mountain Pacific Region, spanning seven states, including California, Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Nevada, and Utah. Nisa's USA National Team will be competing in Colorado this week!

JV Team:

• 2nd Team All Mt. Hamilton League- Janya Hampasagar

Varsity Team:

• All League Honorable Mentions:

• Jaslyn Wallace & Libero Tiffany Zhang

• 2nd Team Mt. Hamilton All League: Ally Lingaolingao

• Mt. Hamilton 1st Team All League Honors: Mikayla Chan

• Mt. Hamilton League Freshmen of the Year- Shivika Shekar

FIRST PLACE - VIDEO 

Jaimie Nguyen 

Entry Title: Stand Up

Medium: Video

FIRST PLACE - ART

ROSHNI DANDA - DRAWING

SECOND PLACE 

AMANDA WANG - OIL PAINTING

Shreya Pitre won the Congressional Art Contest for District 19. She went to the capital in Washington DC and attended the ceremony as the guest of Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren.  Congratulations Shreya!

Kshitij Teotia earned the Mayor Commendation Award from the City of San José's Sam Liccardo and District 8 Councilwoman Sylvia Arenas to honor his successful charity drive that raised over 500+ pairs of socks and 15,000+ school supply items The donated supplies went to the Bill Wilson Center for teenagers and families from Santa Clara county who are in need. 

Kshitiji extends gratitude to Mr. Diaz and EVHS Staff for supporting his initiatives and encouraging him to succeed.

Akshi is a western classical vocal student with the following successes in individual and choirs competitions.

1. CCDA All-State Choir: Selected for Coastal Region Honor Choir at CalPoly. 

2. ACDA (American Choral Director Association) National Honor Choir: National Honor Choir in Cincinnati, OH

3. American Protege Music Competition (Vocal category): First place (Junior category), at Carnegie Hall, NY 

4. NATs SF chapter: first prize in the under 15 category in 2021.

5. AFAF:  2nd prize in 2021

1st Place ESUHSD Writing 

Ashwini Anantharaman

TEDxEV club is delighted to announce that our first talks have been published to the official TEDx YouTube channel! 

The topic for this event was advancement and discovery, and they focused on discovering things about ourselves and the world around us.

Take a moment to check out our speakers’ talks. You might learn something new! Here are three of our talks. 

Please follow @tedxevhs on Instagram for updates

• What A Year!, Jeremy George - 

• Expand Your Box, Yashika Batra (EVHS Alumna) - 

• We’d Love a Seat at the Table, Riya Shukla - 

EVHS PTSA & LSU's annual Fiesta Forever Fundraiser was a great success!   The Latinx Student Union(LSU) team took care of all the event arrangements under the guidance of Mr. Gonzalez and Ms. Reyes.

Extra thank you to Mr. Kleckner, Ms. Mohan, Mr. Boostani, our school staff and custodial team, our EVHS Parents and Student volunteers, and the larger Evergreen community for helping us organize the event successfully.

This event was a fun way for our student students to be part of this rich cultural experience.  Well done Cougars!

EVHS students enjoyed their annual Halloween Bash on October 29th.

Congratulations to Shivam and Steven!  They are two of only 335 students (amounting to just 0.29% of 2021 AP Computer Science Principles Exam takers) from around the world to earn every point possible on this challenging, college-level examination.

We applaud your mastery of the content and skills of this AP course and wish you many future successes.

Aarav Navani, a junior at Evergreen Valley High School, has been recognized by the ESUHSD Board of Trustees and KRON news for the development of a meal order application for the more than 23,000 students of ESUHSD. 

He worked throughout the 2020 pandemic year with the district’s IT department and Julie Kasberger, Director of Child Nutrition Services, to develop a meal order app. 

Aarav was able to design a program that allows students to customize their meals and pay online to decrease the long lunch lines significantly. The district expects to save money by reducing food loss, increase productivity by assembling the meals in advance.

“Aarav used his experience as a student and his skills as a programmer to make an app that will make lunch time a joy,” said Randy Phelps, ESUHSD Chief Technology Officer. “To see young people developing applications that have immediate and lasting impact for our students and staff is empowering and encouraging,” said Phelps.

Aarav has said that he enjoys problem solving and especially improving human efficiency. He is interested in continuing to develop tools which will improve the quality of life for his fellow students and make ESUHSD schools run more efficiently. Within this app, Aarav is already thinking of adding support for different languages and nutritional information and allergy warnings for each food item. 

WAY TO GO Aarav Navani!

See the News video here

Sneha's work with Encode Justice was profiled by CNN in a recently published article: These Students are Fighting for Ethical AI

Shreyaa Karan received an Honorable Mention Award for the project "Cranial Hemorrhage - Sectionalization & Ascertaining the Non-Contrast CT Scans using Deep Learning" at the 2021 Synopsys Science Fair Championship from the Santa Clara Valley Science and Engineering Fair Association (SCVSEFA). In addition to this, she received a Special Award from the Yale Science and Engineering Association for her project. This award is given to the most outstanding 11th grade student at the Synopsys Science Fair whose project lies in the field of Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or Chemistry.

5 EVHS PTSA students earned the Distinguished Presidential Service Award this year!

• Abhinav Balla

• Hiral Mehta

• Neha Raj

• Ritali Jain

• Srita Kothuri

Congratulations to Sneha Revanur

Winner of the Princeton Prize in Race Relations for 2021, representing the Bay Area for her work work on Encode Justice

Congratulations to Paula Escobar on being named as finalists for the Santa Clara County Poet Laureate!

Congratulations to Swasti Johri on being named as finalists for the Santa Clara County Poet Laureate!

Harriet and Annabel Gensler participated in the  Marian Filice Youth Piano Competition at Gavilan College and won 1st and 2nd place and received $800. They donated that money to the Bill Wilson Center

Kaylyn Phan, Affiliate Winner

Jessica Qu, Affiliate Rising Star

Anushka Sheth, Affiliate Honorable Mention

have earned an NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC). 

The Bay Area Affiliate of the AiC selects 70 winners  from a pool of 234 applications covering 13 Bay Area counties.

Congratulations!

Christina Yao

National Merit Scholarship Winner

2020

Christina Yao

National Merit Scholarship Winner

2020

Congratulations to HIRAL MEHTA for earning the 2020 Presidential Volunteer Service Award!

Congratulations to CLAIRE ZHU for earning the 2020 Presidential Volunteer Service Award!

Congratulations to NIVEDITA L. SANGHAVI for earning the 2020 Presidential Volunteer Service Award!

Yashika Batra's astrophysics research paper was published within the Columbia Junior Science Journal on Gamma Ray analysis. The link to the website is here, the link the the whole paper PDF is here, and the link to her specific paper is here.

EVHS's Science Olympiad team, as part of Science and Tech Club has virtually attended a number of national invitational competitions, some numbering over 150 teams in size, and brought home impressive results. 

Congratulations to:

• Daleep Pannu

• Jason Lin

• Daleep Pannu 

• Viti Gaonkar 

• Akshita Raghuraman 

• Shuhul Mujhoo 

• Daleep Pannu, 

• Preethi Nalluru 

• Pranav Karthik, 

• Sanjana Taware

• Aditya Karthik 

Mr. Ortiz's Spanish I project, a newspaper, in Spanish, called La Voz.

La Voz in English means "The Voice"

Students can publish their opinions about the world and practice their Spanish at the same time. 

Please enjoy our first edition of la Voz

Congratulations! William Kimani!

William has been selected to receive an engraved bronze Distinguished Finalist medallion in The 2021 Prudential Spirit of Community Awards for outstanding volunteer work! He was chosen by state-level judges as one of the top CA runners-up in this year’s program.

This is a great honor for William and for EVHS. 

Way to Go William!

EV's Raymond Tran was selected to participate in the Stanford Earth Young Investigators Biodiversity program this summer!

Urja Gathoo published her first novel,  "The Earth & the Skye" through Amazon. 

The book is about Gun Violence incidences in schools and the effects of those directly/indirectly affected by it. 

"A school shooting. Seven bullets. Seven dead. One twin alive, the other gone. A little over four months later, after politicians have stopped using her pain as their personal weapons after the world has moved on and the news cycle has forgotten, fifteen-year-old Skye Donovan is struggling to glue together the shattered remains of her life and let go of her twin, who had been her everything."

Jason Lin's article regarding "Phage Therapy" was featured on the TeenInHealth webpage.

EVHS donated almost $5000.00 to the Bill Wilson Center to support homeless teens in San Jose.

Vanessa Caustrita sent her thank you via video.

EV's Shreya Vinjamuri and teammates Isabella Hochschild and Aarushi Choudhary created the Buddi app this summer.  They  won second place in the Information and Coping Tools division of the COVIDathon challenge.