Past Awards

Past Awards

Note: In Invitationals or Regionals where multiple MBMS teams competed, some events may appear more than once in the Medal or Top 10 lists.

2023−2024 Awards

State Tournament, Apr 2024
Top 6 place Medal Events:

  • Crime Busters - Riyana Gupta & Sravani Chittuluri - 5th place

Coach: Mohit Gupta & Melanie Perez

  • Flight - Danielle Brizard & Xavi Nguyen - 5th place

Coach: Gary Brizard

  • Optics - Gopal Saladi & Mihir Pullabhotla - 3rd place

Coach: Valibabu Saladi

  • Roller Coaster - Sarah Nguyen & Xavi Nguyen - 3rd place

Coach: Valibabu Saladi

Under 10 place events:

  • Anatomy and Physiology - Arjun Jagan & Mihir Pullabhotla - 7th place

Coach: Srinivas Pullabhotla

  • Can't Judge a Powder  - Claire Perry & Danielle Brizard- 10th place

Coach: Lori Perry

  • Codebusters - Mihir Pullabhotla & Rohini Yeshwantpur & Sravani Chittuluri - 9th place

Coach: Queen Tran

  • Wheeled Vehicle  -  Akshay Kandakumar & Gopal Saladi - 10th place

Coach: Valibabu Saladi

  • Engineering CAD (Trial ) - Amogh Hongal & Utkarsh Mishra - 5th place

Regional Competition, Feb 2024
There were a total of 23 middle schools and 79 teams competing at the regional tournament on 24th in Division B category.
Overall school placement 4th place and advanced to the state competition which will be held tentatively on April 6th at Caltech University.

Team placements:
Twix - 5th place
Snickers - 15th place
Hershey's  - 20th place
Here are the top 10 places awarded with medals, a total of 20 medals :

Air Trajectory - Twix - Dhruv Palle & Gopal Saladi- 9th place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi & Aditya Namjoshi

Anatomy - Twix - Arjun Jagan & Mihir Pullabhotla- 6th place
Coach: Srinivas Pullabhotla

Can't Judge the Powder - Snickers - Claire Perry & Danielle Brizard- 2nd place
Coach: Lori Perry

Codebusters - Twix - Mihir Pullabhotla & Rohini Yeshwantpur & Sravani Chittuluri  - 2nd place
Coach: Queen Tran

Crimebusters - Hershey's - Arnav Somwal & Riyana Gupta- 3rd place
Coach: Mohit Gupta & Melanie Perez

Fast Facts - Hershey's- Rajveer Dhaliwal & Riyana Gupta- 10th place
Coach: Archana Ambike

Fossils - Twix- Rohini Yeshwantpur & Shaneev Priolkar - 3rd Place
Coach: Lawrence Sverdrup

Meteorology - Hershey's - Tony Cervantes - 7th Place
Snickers- Ojus Namjoshi & Tristan Bachmann - 9th Place
Coaches: Gallen Triana-Baltzer & Anuradha Kishan

Microbe Mission - Twix- Arjun Jagan & Mihir Pullabhotla - 2nd Place
Mentor: Helmand Hatamy

Optics: Twix - Gopal Saladi & Mihir Pullabhotla - 6th Place
Hershey's - Rajveer Dhaliwal & Xavi Nguyen - 10th Place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi

Reach For the Stars: Twix - Arjun Jagan & Shaneev priolkar - 2nd place
Hershey's - Amogh Hongal & Arnav Somwal  - 8th Place
Coach: Hiten Somwal

Roller Coaster - Snickers - Moksith Adireddy & Sarah Nguyen- 1st place
Hershey's - Xavi Nguyen - 2nd Place

Twix - Gopal Saladi & Dhruv Palle - 3rd Place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi

Wheeled Vehicle: Twix- Akshay Kandakumar & Gopal Saladi - 1st Place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi

Wind Power: Twix- Gopal Saladi & Akshay Kandakumar - 3rd Place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi & Kandakumar Velusamy

WIDI - Snickers- Sarah Nguyen & Vachana Mannangi - 5th Place
Coach: Basawaraj Mannangi
Mentor: Anchal Verma

Other events which are under 15 places are:
Air Trajectory - Hershey's - Arjun Dumbre & Siddhant Ramakrishnan - 13th Place
Snickers - Jyot Chhabra & Ojus Namjoshi - 15th place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi & Aditya Namjoshi

Codebusters - Snickers - Caleb Perez, Claire Perry, Sarah Nguyen - 13th place
Coach: Queen Tran

Crimebusters - Twix - Jayden Wong & Sravani Chittuluri- 12th place
Coach: Mohit Gupta & Melanie Perez

Flight - Snickers-  Caleb Perez & Danielle Brizard - 15th place
Coach: Gary Brizard

Reach For the Stars: Snickers - Moksith Adireddy & Ojus Namjoshi- 14th place
Coach: Hiten Somwal

Road Scholar- Twix - Arjun Jagan & Shaneev Priolkar - 12th Place
Mentor: Rajan Tavathia

Wind Power: Snickers- Sahaj Sheth & Utkarsh Mishra - 14th Place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi & Kandakumar Velusamy

WIDI - Twix - Jayden Wong & Sravani Chittuluri- 11th place
Coach: Basawaraj Mannangi  Mentor: Anchal Verma

Stemboost Invitational

There were a total of 57 schools, 156 teams from around 19 states with more than 2000 contestants who represented at the Satellite mode STEMBoost Invitational Tournament.
Teams Placement:
Twix - 18th place
Snickers - 41th place
Hershey's - 49th place

Top 10 places were announced for medals. Congratulations to all our three Roller Coaster teams!!
Roller Coaster - Twix - Dhruv Palle & Gopal Saladi - 2nd place
Roller Coaster - Hershey's - Xavi Nguyen- 5th place
Roller Coaster - Snickers - Moksith Adireddy & Sarah Nguyen - 6th place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi (Coach Babu)

Here are few under 20 placed events
Anatomy & Physiology - Twix - Arjun Jagan & Mihir Pullabhotla - 11 place
Coach: Srinivas Pullabhotla

Optics - Twix - Gopal Saladi & Mihir Pullabhotla - 14 place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi (Coach Babu)

Write It Do It -
Twix - Sravani Chittuluri &  Jayden Wong - 14 place
Snickers - Sarah Nguyen & Vachana Mannangi - 17 place
Coaches: Anchal Verma & Basawaraj Mannangi

Air Trajectory -
Snickers - Jyot Chhabra & Ojus Namjoshi - 15 place
Twix - Gopal Saladi & Dhruv Palle - 18 place
Coaches: Valibabu Saladi (Coach Babu) & Aditya Namjoshi

Microbe Missions - Twix - Arjun Jagan & Mihir Pullabhotla - 15 place
Coach:  Helmand (Mentor)

Stemboost Results updated in the excel:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dLIdwqTnMrOmm0YVqTNHHySv8XzKH8l2BchBQ6Pe704/edit?usp=sharing

The award ceremony link is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VpGLRuBwDI.

Troy Invitational

There were a total of 30 teams participating in the Troy Invitational Tournament on Jan 6th.
Medals were awarded to top 6 places in each event.
Congratulations to Titanium Air Trajectory and Roller coaster teams
Air Trajectory - 2nd place  - Gopal Saladi & Dhruv Palle
Coaches: Valibabu Saladi & Aditya Namjoshi
Roller Coaster - 4th place - Dhruv Palle & Xavi Nguyen
Coach: Valibabu Saladi

6 other events which scored until 10 places are
Roller Coaster - 7th place - Moksith Adireddy & Sarah Nguyen
Coach:  Valibabu Saladi
Meteorology - 8th place - Arjun Jagan
Coaches:  Gallen Triana-Baltzer & Anuradha Kishan
Microbe Mission - 8th place - Arjun Jagan & Siddhant Ramakrishnan
Coaches:  Helmand (Mentor)
Road Scholar - 9th place - Arjun Jagan & Shaneev Priolkar
Coach:  Rajan Tavathia (Mentor)
Optics - 9th place - Gopal Saladi & Xavi Nguyen
Coach:  Valibabu Saladi
Wind Power - 10th place - Akshay Kandakumar & Gopal Saladi
Coaches:  Valibabu Saladi & Kandakumar Velusamy

Good job Team! Thank you coaches and parents for all your support. Team event rankings are available in the below excel.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P9h0fEywYq-Q_dOU24NGHVjypEY_6KkkcaJ4h4WoRDM/edit?usp=sharing

2022−2023 Awards

SoCal State Championships 2023

Overall Team Placement: 14th

Medals:

  • Roller Coaster: 1st (Dhruv Palle & Gopal Saladi)
  • Sounds of Music: 6th (Emmanuel Stewart & Gopal Saladi)

Other Top 10 Placements:

  • Anatomy: 7th (Arjun Jagan & Mihir Pullabhotla)
  • Bridge: 7th (Aisvaryaa Palaniappan & Gopal Saladi)
  • Flight: 7th (Aisvaryaa Palaniappan & Kendrick Perez)
  • Crime Busters: 8th (Kendrick Perez & Sravani Chittuluri)
  • Can't Judge a Powder: 9th (Marissa Sloss & Shikha Balraj)
  • Rocks and Minerals: 10th (Liana Hamon & Shaneev Priolkar)
We are proud to announce that our Meadowbrook school placed overall 4th place and advancing to the state competition which will be held tentatively on April 8th.
There were a total of 22 schools and 75 teams competed at the regional tournament yesterday in Division B category.
Team placements:
Everest - 7th place
Kilimanjaro - 17th place
Olympus - 43rd place
Here are the top 10 places awarded with medals, a total of 17 :
Anatomy - Everest - Arjun Jagan & Akshaya Bet - 5th place
Kilimanjaro - Mihir Pullabhotla & Evelyn Nguyen- 10th place
Coach: Srinivas Pullabhotla
Can't Judge the Powder - Everest - Marissa Sloss & Shikha Balraj- 7th place
Coach: Marianne Sloss
Codebusters - Everest - Sravani Chittuluri & Aisvaryaa Palaniappan & Moksith Adireddy - 2nd place
Coach: Priya Ramesh
Crave the Wave - Everest - Gopal Saladi & Moksith Adireddy - 10th place
Kilimanjaro - Rohini Yeshwantpur & Mihir Pullabhotla - 6th place
Coach: Samuel Stewart
Crimebusters - Everest - Sravani Chittuluri & Kendrick Perez - 5th place
Coach: Priya Ramesh
Disease Detectives - Everest - Kendrick Perez - 6th place
Coach: Deepthi Tipirneni & Lorena Mora-Blanco
Fast Facts - Kilimanjaro - Rohini Yeshwantpur & Sanvi Gutha- 9th place
Coach: Basawaraj Mannangi, Mentor: Pranit Mathur
Flight - Kilimanjaro - Danielle Brizard & Mona Ehsan - 8th place
Road Scholar - Everest - Arjun Jagan & Shaneev Priolkar -  5th place
Mentor: Rajan Tavathia
Rocks and Minerals - Everest - Shaneev Priolkar & Liana Hamon - 9th place
Coaches: Shawna Hamon & Lawrence Sverdrup
Roller Coaster - Kilimanjaro - Dhruv Palle & Mihir Pullabhotla - 3rd place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi
Solar System - Everest - Moksith Adireddy & Sravani Chittuluri -  9th place
Coach: Ramakrishna Adireddy
Sound of Music - Everest- Emmanuel Stewart & Gopal Saladi- 4th place
Coach: Mary Stewart & Samuel Stewart
Storm the Castle - Everest - Marissa Sloss - 9th place
Coach: Valibabu Saladi
WIDI - Kilimanjaro - Sanvi Gutha & Rohini Yeshwantpur - - 9th place
Coach: Wei-Hsiu Huang, Mentors: Iris Huang, Easha Ashraf, Anchal Verma
Other events which are under 15 places are:
Bioprocess - Everest- Shikha Balraj & Arjun Jagan - 11th place
Coach - Gallen Triana-Baltzer
Bridges - Everest- Gopal Saladi & Aisvaryaa Palaniappan - 13th place
Coach: Rama Palaniappan & Lawrence Sverdrup
Dynamic Planet - Everest - Arjun Jagan - 14th place
Experimental Design - Everest - Emmanuel Stewart & Shikha Balraj & Akshaya Bet- 12th place
Coach: Mary Stewart
Fast Facts - Everest - Aisvaryaa Palaniappan & Moksith Adireddy - 13th place
Roller Coaster - Kilimanjaro - Xavi Nguyen - 15th place
WIDI - Everest -Emmanuel Stewart & Aisvaryaa Palaniappan - 13th place

STEMBoost Satellite Invitational tournament

There were a total of 70 teams from around 8 states who represented at the Satellite mode STEMBoost Invitational Tournament on 1/21/23 to 1/28/23.
Congratulations to our Experimental Design Team Everest (Emmanuel Stewart, Shikha Balraj, Akshaya Bet) on placing 2nd in the event
Other nine events which scored Top 20 places are:
Crave the Wave Team Kilimanjaro(Rohini Yeshwantpur & Mihir Pullabhotla) - 12th place
Sound of Music Team Everest(Emmanuel Stewart & Gopal Saladi) - 14th place
Bioprocess Team Everest(Shikha Balraj & Arjun Jagan) - 16th place
WIDI Team Everest(Emmanuel Stewart & Aisvaryaa Palaniappan) - 16th place
Roller Coaster Team Everest(Sravani Chittuluri & Gopal Saladi) -  17th place
Road scholar Team Everest(Arjun Jagan & Shaneev Priolkar) - 17th place
Can't Judge a Powder Team Everest (Marissa Sloss & Shikha Balraj) - 18th place
Storm the Castle Team Everest(Marissa Sloss & Xavi Nguyen) - 18th place
Anatomy Team Everest(Arjun Jagan & Akshaya Bet) - 20th place

BirdSO invitational tournament

There were 26 schools and 66 teams. Our Meadowbrook Team placement is 28th and school placement is 15th.

Medals were awarded to Top 10 places in each event-category

Roller Coaster: Xavi Nguyen & Gopal Saladi - 4th place
Bio Process Lab: Arjun Jagan & Shika Balraj - 6th place 
Fast Facts: Aisvaryaa Palaniappan & Rohini Yeshwantpur - 8th place
Can't Judge a Powder : Marissa Sloss & Shika Balraj - 9th place
Other events which were placed under 20th places:
Sound of Music - Gopal Saladi & Maristella Klitgord-Mora - 15th place
WIDI -  Aisvaryaa Palaniappan & Rohini Yeshwantpur - 19th place

 

2021−2022 Awards

SoCal State Championships 2022

Overall Team Placement: 17th

Medals:

  • Crime Busters: 1st (Deren Erdem & Irene Huang)
  • Ping Pong Parachute: 2nd (Gopal Saladi & Yuvan Gollamudi)

Other Top 10 Placements:

  • Mousetrap Vehicle: 9th (Emmanuel Stewart & Nathan Perry)
  • Storm the Castle: 10th (Nathan Perry)
  • Write It Do It: 10th (Sanvi Naveen & Irene Huang)

All Results: https://www.duosmium.org/results/2022-04-02_sCA_states_b

Livestream Link: https://youtu.be/lOFAXWTQpjI

San Diego Regionals 2022

Overall Team Placements:

  • School placement: 4th
  • Team Hydrogen: 10th (Qualifies for State Championships)
  • Team Oxygen: 18th
  • Team Nitrogen: 28th
  • Team Carbon: 45th

Top 10 Placements:

  • Mousetrap Vehicle: 2nd (Emmanuel Stewart & Nathan Perry)
  • Crime Busters: 2nd (Deren Erdem & Irene Huang)
  • Bio Process Lab: 3rd (Arjun Jagan & Niyathi Jagan)
  • Write It Do It: 3rd (Sanvi Naveen & Irene Huang)
  • Disease Detectives: 4th (Samuel Romon Kuusinen & Rohini Yeshwantpur)
  • Experimental Design: 4th (Emmanuel Stewart, Doyun Lee & Sanvi Naveen)
  • Mission Possible: 5th (Gopal Saladi & Marissa Sloss)
  • Food Science: 7th (Marissa Sloss & Emmanuel Stewart)
  • Green Generation: 7th (Ashwin Kalyan & Samuel Romon Kuusinen)
  • Ping Pong Parachute: 7th (Gopal Saladi & Aisvaryaa Palaniappan)
  • Anatomy & Physiology: 9th (Arjun Jagan & Niyathi Jagan)
  • Electric Wright Stuff: 9th (Nathan Perry)
  • Ping Pong Parachute: 9th (Sravani Chittuluri & Sanvi Gutha)
  • Bridge: 10th (Marissa Sloss & Aisvaryaa Palaniappan)
  • Mission Possible: 10th (Matthew Leslie)
  • Ping Pong Parachute: 10th (Yuvan Gollamudi)

STEMBoost Invitational 2022

Overall Team Placement: 29th (Team Hydrogen)

Medals:

  • Mission Possible: 6th (Gopal Saladi & Marissa Sloss)

Other Top 10 Placements:

  • Bio Process Lab: 9th (Arjun Jagan & Niyathi Jagan)
  • Mousetrap Vehicle: 10th (Emmanuel Stewart & Nathan Perry)

Livestream Link: https://youtu.be/AQ4j1o4XLIk

BirdSO Invitational 2022

  • Ornithology: 20th (Emmanuel Stewart & Vishal Arulprakasam)
  • Game On: 22nd (Aisvaryaa Palaniappan & Gopal Naidu Saladi)
  • Bio Process Lab: 28th (Niyathi Jagan & Arjun Jagan)

Troy Invitational 2022

Medals:

  • Ping Pong Parachute: 3rd (Aisvaryaa Palaniappan & Gopal Saladi)
  • Mission Possible: 4th (Gopal Saladi)
  • Storm the Castle: 4th (Nathan Perry & Ella Triana-Baltzer)

Other Top 10 Placements:

  • Mousetrap Vehicle: 8th (Emmanuel Stewart & Nathan Perry)
  • Ping Pong Parachute: 9th (Sravani Chittuluri & Sanvi Gutha)