The Wesleyan middle school TSA team competed March 17-19 in Athens, GA in the Technology Student Association State Leadership Conference for middle and high school chapters. Georgia TSA has over 27,000 high school and middle school members.
Wesleyan’s team worked on their chosen SLC events from mid-October to March. Wesleyan finished in 7th place overall for outstanding middle school chapter out of 40 competing middle schools! Team members had top 10 finalists in 12 out of 17 events we entered, including:
Yuna Cho ‘28, Jia Lim ‘27- 1st place in Medical Technology Jia Lim ’27 - 2nd place in Essays on Technology Larry Men ’26 - 3rd place in STEM Animation Shaan Sancheti ‘27, Koen Deadwyler ‘27, Sahana Karthikeyan ‘27- 5th place in Website Design Larry Men ‘26, Shaan Sancheti ‘27- 5th place in Problem Solving Luca Zavitz ‘28, Jesse Cottingham ‘28 - 6th place in Microcontroller Design Ellie Ahn ’27 - 6th place in CAD Foundations Ellie Ahn ‘27, Jia Lim ’27 - 7th place in Technical Design Sahana Karthikeyan ‘27, Ellie Ahn ‘27, Elijah Tian ’27 - 8th place in Mass Production Sahana Karthikeyan ‘27, Ellie Ahn ‘27, Yuna Cho ’28 - 9th place in Off the Grid Jesse Cottingham ‘28, Elijah Tian ‘27- 9th place in Video Game Design
Students placing in first or second place will advance to a National TSA competition later this year.
Two of Wesleyan’s VEX IQ Robotics teams also competed at SLC and the results included:
Larry Men ‘26, Shaan Sancheti ‘27, Koen Deadwyler ‘27, Elijah Tian ’27 - 4th place Sahana Karthikeyan ‘27, Yuna Cho ‘28, Ellie Ahn ’27, Jia Lim’27 - 7th place