Career & Technical Education Student Achievements!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 14, 2012
Contact: David Hitt, CTE Administration
Career & Technical Education Student Achievements!
73 Plano ISD Career and Technical Education students advance to national/international level competitions in
their various co-curricular organizations! Congratulations to the CTE students, staff and organizations for the
recent success at their state level events.
DECA – 16 students competed at State with 7 advancing to International.
Additional recognition to the following “highest level” winners in their DECA State events!
Paul Burnham IV (Plano Senior High – Restaurant & Food Service)
Aaron Issac (Plano Senior High – Marketing Communications)
Andrew Kick (Plano Senior High – Entrepreneurial Planning – Business Plan)
Randell Methe (Plano Senior High – Automotive Services)
Surya Moorthi (Plano Senior High – Financial Services)
Antonio San Pedro (Plano Senior High – Financial Services)
Amin Pirani (Plano Senior High – Marketing Communications)
FBLA – 128 students competed at State with 45 advancing to National.
The following 18 students were 1 st place winners in their FBLA State events!
Alex Dao (Plano East – Business Plan)
Malvika Gupta (Plano East – Business Plan)
Ahron Menghani (Plano East – Business Plan)
Akul Arora (Plano East – Business Calculations)
Nathan Brunner (Plano East – Business Procedures)
Sheena Chokshi (Plano Senior High – Entrepreneurship)
Priya Dhudshia (Plano Senior High – Entrepreneurship)
Mohit Patel (Plano Senior High – Entrepreneurship)
Kayla Bu (Plano Senior High – Management Decision Making)
Jessica Jan (Plano Senior High – Management Decision Making)
Ekaterina Kouznetsova (Plano Senior High – Management Decision Making)
Max Lu (Plano Senior High – Business Law)
Kevin Fu (Plano West – Emerging Business Issues)
Jonathan Huang (Plano West – Emerging Business Issues)
Mark Lee (Plano West – Emerging Business Issues)
Chris Lancaster (Plano West – Business Communication)
Alvan Chow (Plano West – Economics)
Vicky Gu (Plano West – Hospitality Management)
HOSA – 83 students competed at State with 18 advancing to National.
The following student won 1 st place at his event at HOSA State!
Edward Baeg (Plano West – Epidemiology)
Computer Science
Congratulations to the computer programming teams from PESH, PSHS and PWSH for their participation in the
district and regional UIL programming contests. PSHS placed 1st at District UIL and PWSH placed 2nd. At the
Regional UIL contest, PWSH placed 3rd and PSHS placed 4th. Cindy Gallatin’s programming team at PSHS
placed 4th at the state-level HP Code Wars contest.

Culinary Arts (Plano East) – 11 students competed at State with 3 advancing to National.
SkillsUSA state winners in Culinary Arts related events are Amber Kukowski - Customer Service, Belami Peek -
Food and Beverage and Kati Villeneuve - Job Skill Demonstration. Belami received a $15,000 scholarship for
winning the Gold! Amber received the Ben E. Keith Scholarship of $5,000!
The Culinary Arts, ProStart team won 2nd in the State competition for designing their restaurant “La Bella
Vita” from conception to finish. The Texas team that won first place at State went on to win first place at
the National competition.
Ag Science
Twelve Agriculture Science students from each of Plano’s three FFA chapters recently competed in the State
Veterinary Medicine CDE at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine. Congratulations to
Paige Coody, Courtney Erickson, Caroline Burten, and Lindsey Daniel of the Plano East Senior High Veterinary
Medicine team (pictured below) as they placed 2nd out of 69 teams. Paige Coody was the 3rd high individual
in the contest out of 257 contestants from the state of Texas.
Abby Weyrens, of the Plano East Senior High FFA chapter, was the 2nd high individual out of 202 individuals
at the State Dairy Cattle Evaluation contest at Tarleton State. She missed first place by only five points. We
are very proud for her as she will be attending South Dakota State University to study Dairy
Production/Management.
Congratulations to the many FFA students that have done well at area, district and state level Career
Development Events. Students competed in a variety of events including Wildlife, Floriculture, Dairy
Products, Entomology, Food Science and Ag Mechanics.
Plano East Senior High Veterinary Medicine Team