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Dozens of high-achieving indian american students
honored with Congressional gold Medal for 2021
Our Bureau
Washington, DC
he U.S. Congress recently
announced its 2021 class
Tof Congressional Gold
Medal Award recipients, hon-
oring a plethora of young Indian
American students, among oth-
ers. The Congressional Award
is the United States Congress’
award for young Americans.
The program is non-partisan,
voluntary, and non-competitive.
Young people may register when
they turn 13 and a half years old
and must complete their activi- Aarav Yarlagadda of nal District honorees included
ties by their 24th birthday. Leawood, Kansas, was named Pruthvi Choudary of Dayton,
in the 3rd Congressional Dis-
Mallika Desai of Miamisburg,
Participants earn Bronze, trict. Rockville’s Simoni Mish- Meha Pandya of Centerville,
Silver and Gold Congressional
Award Certificates and Bronze, were named awardees in Cal- ra and Potomac’s Dhruv Pai Prateek Raju of Dayton, and
Silver and Gold Congressional ifornia’s 17th Congressional were awarded in Maryland’s Adarsh Suresh of Centerville.
Award Medals. Each level in- District; Shreya Balasani and 6th Congressional District. Srilaasya Yenduri of Portland
volves setting goals in four pro- Shresta Balasani from Moor- Massachusetts’ 3rd Congres- and Akash Bindal of Beaver-
ton were named in Oregon’s 1st
park, Calif., were named in sional District winners includ-
gram areas: Voluntary Public the 26th Congressional Dis- ed Pooja Patel of Mansfield in Congressional District.
Service, Personal Development, trict; Anisha Singh of Brea the 4th Congressional District. South Carolina’s 4th Con-
Physical Fitness, and Expedi- and Aneal Singh from Yor- Riya Kannapareddy of Oma- gressional District honoree was
tion/Exploration, according to
the foundation. ba Linda were honored with ha, Nebraska, was named in Kritika Ravichander of Greer.
This is not an award for past a medal in California’s 39th the 2nd Congressional District. Vivek Girish of Johnson City,
recipients
Jersey’s
New
accomplishments. Instead, re- Congressional District; and included Ved Jain and Ishan Tennessee, was named in the 1st
Neel Takale, Arjun Dahiya and
Congressional District. In Texas,
cipients are honored for achiev- Akshat Sharma of Irvine, Ca- Shah of Toms River in the 3rd Akshat Shah of Allen and Seha
ing their own challenging goals lif., were named in the state’s Congressional District; Roshini Subas of Plano were named in
after registering for the pro- 45th Congressional District. Bodicherla of Robbinsville and the 3rd Congressional District.
gram, the foundation noted.
Regardless of a recipient’s sit- In Connecticut, Jay Srivas- Sumedha Sabbani of Robbins- Other awardees in the state in-
uation, they can earn the Con- tava of Glastonbury was named ville in the 4th Congressional cluded Ankitha Lavi of Bellaire
gressional Award, which has no in the 1st Congressional Dis- District; Morganville’s Nikh- in the 7th Congressional Dis-
trict.
it Basineni and Edison’s San-
trict and Dia Jain of Austin in
minimum grade point average Florida’s awardees included mathi Priya Abiram Lakshmi the 10th Congressional District.
requirements. It accommo- Kiara Vadnais of Pensacola in Devi in the 6th Congressional Texas’ 22nd Congressional
dates young people with special
needs or disabilities who are the 1st Congressional District; District; Somerset’s Harshika District recipients included
willing to take the challenge, it Aman Shaik of Jacksonville in Gelivi, Diya Kodimala, Akshat Anjali Agrawal and Meghan
said. the 4th Congressional District; Parthiban and Srikar Sadhu in Anand, both from Sugar Land,
and Pearland’s Neeraj Anantha,
and Nitya Anne of Tampa in the 12th Congressional District.
Ananyaa Arvind of Folsom the 14th Congressional District. New York’s awardees in- Yusuf Khan Ashwin Murali and
was honored with a Congres- Awardees in Georgia’s 7th cluded Sujay Sundar of West- Amar Sehgal.
sional Gold Medal Award in
California’s 7th Congressio- Congressional District included bury and Anika Varma of Dix Jaishri Ramesh of Irving was
nal District; Neel Patibandla Shruthi Maruvada of Duluth, Hills in the 3rd Congressional named in the 24th Congressio-
of Pleasanton was named an Shaam Uppalapati of Cum- District and Avni Garg of New nal District, while Srivi Balaji
awardee in California’s 15th ming, and Dhruva Vedula of York in the 10th Congressional of Cedar Park was named in
the 31st Congressional District.
Suwanee.
District.
Congressional District; Arushi Nathra Ramrajvel of Naper- Suhaas Ravela of Ma- The foundation said the recipi-
Agastwar and Avishi Agast- ville, Illinois, was named a re- son, Ohio, was honored in the ents will be honored at the an-
war of Cupertino, Hasitha cipient in the state’s 11th Con- state’s 1st Congressional Dis- nual Gold Medal Ceremony
Nimmagadda of San Jose and
Sunnyvale’s Saurav Gandhi gressional District. trict. Ohio’s 10th Congressio- July 30.
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