Technology Student Association (TSA) traveled to state contest last week, competing against 206 other chapters across the state. It was a very busy competition with 36 qualifying projects. GCM was awarded the Chapter of Excellence which is only awarded to one high school and one middle school annually. GCM is also had two sophomores win their state officer elections, Manthan More in the 2024-25 treasurer and Khyati Singh is the 2024-25 state secretary.
On Demand Video created a short mystery film, and had to use a box, use the line never trust atoms they make up everything.”, and a writing utensil. The team of Amira Lewis, Kristine Richards, Sofia Ramirez, Viridiana Nunez, Vida Martinez, and Nadia Espinosa finished in the top 25 of over 100 entries.
Amira Lewis and Viridiana Nunez advanced to nationals for promotional design, placing 2nd.
Manthan More, Aayush Koora, and Laksh Naikele finished top 10, qualifying for nationals in Solar Sprint, a solar powered designed car.
Kristine Richards, Viridiana Nunez, and Sofia Ramirez advanced to the semifinal round in Geospatial technology, with their regional issue research on plastics in Marine ecosystems, their interview round qualified them for nationals.
Tina Chen, Krystal Murrillo, and Pavithra Ramesh advanced to semifinals in Childrens Stories with interactive technology placing 10th out of eighty books.
Viridiana Nunez, Kristine Richards, and Alex Wilson advance to semifinals with their Biotechnology with a Childrens Muesum Interactive exhibit explaining the impacts of microplastics. The exhibit had models and a short video game to engage school aged children.
Aayush Koora and Khyati Singh advance to semifinals in Data Science and analytics, placing 6th overall.
Riley Bloom, Nadia Espinoza, Amira Lewis, and Viridiana Nunez competed in the first ever Social Media Marketing contest and placed 5th with their multiplatform media posts.
Nikita Gupta placed first with her Safety poster design and Viridiana Nunez placed 5th .
Manthan Moore and Aayush both qualified for nationals with their CO2 dragsters, placing 4th and 5th.
Owen Baker and Swayam Gupta finished 8th and 9th in Technology problem solving.
Laksh Naikele and Sofia Ramirez finished 7th and 8th In Biotechnology Design.
A BIG Shout Out to Daniel Maya (Sr.), Ethan Lanning (Sr.), Angel Jara (Sr.) Abner Garcia (Jr.) and Logan Hurd (Jr.) for the work they did on this year's welding projects. They used three welding processes SMAW (stick), GTAW (Tig), and GMAW (Mig) on the material cart, metal bin and the pedestal for the vise. They did all the welding, grinding and oxyfuel cutting. They used measuring tools such as measuring tapes, squares and levels and they even painted. They deserve all the credit.
- Mr. Guajardo