This weekend, Carly Russo, DBHS TSA adviser and science teacher, accompanied 58 of our students to the California State Technology Student Association Conference in Bakersfield, CA. The results of their efforts are included below. They represented DBHS well. The current State President Nicole Chen and State Treasurer Samuel Chiang ARE DBHS students. They got pied in the face for raising the most donation for American Cancer Society.
Newly Elected STATE Officers from DBHS!!
Samantha Yang elected as State President
Brian Ho elected as State Secretary
Samuel Chiang elected as State Treasurer
Leslie Sim elected as State Sergeant-at-Arms
NOTE: All of the students elected to state office are also members of our Brahma Tech Academy!
Carly Russo, DBHS Science teacher, was selected to be the next State Advisor.
HOW WE GOT STARTED: The Technology Student Association (TSA) was founded in 1978. For over thirty years, students around the country competed in technology related events, except for California. Four years ago, Alice Jin (c/o 2014) contacted TSA and inquired how to start the club. Diamond Bar High School became the first chartered chapter in the state. Since then, the number of schools involved has double each year. The first two State conferences were held at DBHS planned by the state officers which were all students from our school. This past state conference was held in Bakersfield where four of the six state officers elected are from DBHS. For the past two years, DBHS has been the only California chapter to compete at the National TSA conference where our students have had the opportunity to lead students from New York, Germany and Turkey in a discussion about how to grow state participation. DBHS has been integral in the expansion of TSA in California.
The long list of awards will begin here...
Architectural Renovation |
1st Place |
Nicole Chen |
Angeline Cheng |
Emily Dang |
Isabel Jiang |
Jacqueline Zhang |
Sandy Pan |
Biotechnology Design |
1st Place |
Athena Chen |
Jeannie Huang |
Jeff Chow |
Aishwarya Bhupatiraju |
Sandy Pan |
2nd Place |
Matthew Ho |
Brian Chang |
Derek Su |
Felix Su |
3rd Place |
Niraj Ganesh |
Alexander To |
Jennifer Chang |
Felix Lien |
Julia Chen |
Austin Chiang |
Career Preparation |
2nd Place |
Dorothy Lewes |
3rd Place |
Alvin Lee |
Children's Stories |
1st Place |
Jennifer Chang |
Sandy Pan |
Michelle Chang |
2nd Place |
Jung Hyun Kim |
Nicole Chen |
Shana Roan |
3rd Place |
Aishwarya Bhupatiraju |
Bernard Chen |
Leslie Sim |
Debating Technological Issues |
1st Place |
Carol Lai |
Shirley Lu |
Desktop Publishing |
1st Place |
Bernard Chen |
2nd Place |
Austin Chiang |
3rd Place |
Samantha Yang |
Digital Video Production |
1st Place |
Austin Zhang |
Niraj Ganesh |
Forest Lam |
Engineering Design |
1st Place |
Phillip Gunadi |
Philip Park |
Silas Wong |
Samuel Kee |
Essays on Technology |
1st Place |
Jung Hyun Kim |
2nd Place |
Alvin Lee |
Extemporaneous Speech |
3rd Place |
Michael Hermanto |
Fashion Design |
1st Place |
Isabel Jiang |
Angeline Cheng |
Jacqueline Zhang |
3rd Place |
Dorothy Lewes |
Samantha Yang |
Flight Endurance |
1st Place |
Brian Kim |
Music Production |
1st Place |
Valerie Tsao |
Priscilla Chang |
3rd Place |
Lauren Kashiwabara |
Jennifer Wu |
Christen Schlag |
Photographic Technology |
1st Place |
Mikaela Pham |
3rd place |
Ashvini Bhupatiraju |
Prepared Presentation |
1st Place |
Michael Hermanto |
2nd Place |
Leslie Sim |
Promotional Graphics |
2nd Place |
Bernard Chen |
3rd Place |
Kevin Liang |
Technology Bowl |
1st Place |
Carol Lai |
2nd Place |
William Loo |
3rd Place |
Austin Chiang |
Transportation Modeling |
1st Place |
Ritesh Pendekanti |
Webmaster |
2nd Place |
Alexander To |
Ritesh Pendekanti |
Yusheng Xia |
Ellis Jang |
Jennifer Chang |