Monday, May 4, 2015

Technology Student Association State Conference

Every spring, the Virginia Association of the Technology Student Association hosts its annual leadership conference, Technosphere. The Technosphere Conference is the highlight of the Virginia TSA year and provides an incredible opportunity for members to compete, lead, and learn through competitive events for middle and high school students, leadership workshops and officer campaigning, and other special events.

Kilmer Middle School came in 8th overall across the state in middle school excellence (awards won) at 2015 Technosphere -- AMAZING JOB!
  • Mithra Dhinakaran - 1st place for Prepared Speech
  • Aaraj Vij, Mithra Dhinakaran, and Stuthi Iyer - 2nd place in Inventions & Innovations
  • Nate Manfra, and Sasha Barles -  2nd place for Video Game Design
  • Laura Gersony, and Shruthi Bhimaraju - 3rd in STEM Animation
  • Mithra Dhinakaran, Shreya Raychadhuri, and Elizabeth Louie - 3rd place in Go Green Manufacturing
  • Aaraj Vij - 3rd place in Promotional Design.

This is an outstanding achievement for a first year chapter! Congratulations go out to the Kilmer team as well as Kent Schweitzer and Joesph Sizemore for their hard work with our students.

Our students were mentioned in an article in InsideNOVA!

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