2015-2016 board of education youth recognition marriott hotels filmmaker of the year athens high...

2015-2016

Board of Education Youth Recognition

1

All-State Band (MSBOA) Baker Middle School

John Dannug – 1st in State

(Advisor: Dr. Spiros Xydas)

Boulan Park Middle School

1st in State:

Michelle Baek Kevin Wang

Jessy Hsu Richard Yang

Richard Li Carol Zhang

Gina Moy

(Advisor: Joe Havrilla)

Larson Middle School

Collin Lucas – 1st in State

(Advisor: Scott Crecelius)

2

All-State Honors Band (MSBOA)

Smith Middle School

1st in State:

Stefan Lemke

Jessica You

(Advisor: Mr. Torres)

3

All-State Orchestra (MSBOA)


1st in State:

Emily Pytell

(Advisor: Rhiannon Mitchell)

4

American Mathematics

League Competition


2nd in Nation:

Reagan Choi

Pratham Soni

Alex Xu

(Advisors: Stephanie Beswick and Jennifer Taylor)

5

American Nuclear Society’s

Nuclear Art and Multimedia Contest

Troy High School

Richard Yang - Nationwide Facebook Choice Award

(Advisor: Rebecca Brewer)

6

American Scholastic Achievement


Arlene Chen (1st in Nation)

Matthew Dong (1st in Nation)

Rishi Konduru (1st in State)

Pratham Soni (1st in Nation)

Sohan Vittalam (1st in Nation)

(Advisor: Tammy Gilbert)

7

Brain Bee Competition

Athens High School 1st in State (National Qualifier):

Varun Sathyan

(Advisor: Jennifer Sprague)

8

Chinese Bridge Speech Contest

9

Troy High School

Ho Chul Jung (2nd Place Nationally)

(Advisor: Sue Lin)

Chinese Zodiac Art Contest

Baker Middle School

1st in State:

Amanda Kovacs

Anshula Nallapati

(Advisor: Ping Bai)

10

College for Creative Studies

Art Competition

11

Troy High School

Gold Key Award; Best of Show:

Catherine Noonan

(Advisor: Judi Tuma)

CSPAN Student Cam Competition

12

Athens High School

1st in State:

Michael Frazier

Griffin Olis

Mustafa Rasheed

Zehn Wani

(Advisor: Adam Burns)

DECA Competition

13

Troy High School

1st in State:

Vaidehi Ambardekar (International-3rd Place)

Anurag Bolneni

Joey Bugaj (International-Top 10)

Sathvik Byreddy (International-Top 20)

Eric Cheng (International-Top 10)

Afriti Chinoy (International-High Role Play)

Maggie Crowell (International-High Role Play)

Emily Endres (International-High Test Score)

Jahnavi Gudi (International-Top 20)

Tabitha Hendren (International-Top 10)

Clare Keating

Clare McAuliffe

DECA Competition (cont.)

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Troy High School

1st in State:

James McAuliffe

Leo McManus (International-High Test Score)

Mariana Renke (International-3rd Place )

Jack Schroeder

Esther Simon

Sahiba Singh

Nick Sirhan

Ashwin Umamaheswaran

Babu Uppalapati

Muyang Wang

Ricky Young (International-Top 10)

(Advisor: Heide Rosenberg)

Destination Imagination

Bemis Elementary

School (1st in State)

Shriya Kankatala

Nagamitesh Nagamuralee

Parnika Ramini

Ruthesh Thavamani

(Advisor: Veena Kulkarni)

Wattles Elementary

School (1st in State)

Rohan Gajula-Ghosh

Manushree Ganta

Medhasri Jasti

Nainika Jasti

Michelle Leon

Rithwik Paladugu

Kavya Varadarajan

(Advisor: Kiran Jasti)

Abhinav Hari

Akshitha Sahu

(Advisor: Veena Kulkarni)

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Destination Imagination (cont.)

16

International Academy East

Global Qualifier:

Madalasa Chaudhari

(Advisor: Mr. Brinks)

Destination Imagination –

European Invitational Competition


(International-1st place-Top 10 score across all

challenges and all levels across 250 teams)

Veronica Ballios

Carter Buser

Justin Clippard

Uros Colovic

Madison Kort

Nidhi Paragi

Manav Patel

(Advisors: Daniele Buser and Danielle Clippard)

17

First Lego League

Larson Middle School (1st in State)

Ojas Alate

Shlok Bhattad

Raaga Dandavolu

Vishal Datthatrey

Maria Garcia

Varun Jayaram

Macray O’Brien

Arnav Shah

(Advisor: Ami Shah and Tim Shoales)

18

FIRST Robotics Championship

International Academy East (World Qualifier)

19

Sandip Akunuri

Vasanth Anbukumar

Sreechandana Anumolu

Abhilash Balanethiram

Shyam Bhogineni

Tejas Bolar

Justin Chao

Yong Ho Cho

Jaideep Chunduri

Hargobind Dhingra

Kevin George

Vijay Gopalakrishnan

Joshua Kemp

Meghana Kowsika

Viraj Mishra

Ravi Mody

Murali Mohan

Priyanka Nandyala

Sanket Nayak

Jafet Pinto

Sareen Podhuturi

Nikhil Shankar

Samarth Somani

Vidyuth Suresh

FIRST Robotics Championship (cont.)

20

Thejas Suvarna

Thomas Vengachuvattil

Abhijit Vyas

Maya Watts

Forrest Yang

Austin Ye

Jason Ye

Eashan Yedulla

Himanesh Yerrakalva

Eric Zhong

(Advisor: Mr. Shaik)

Future Problem Solving International Academy East

(Competing at International Conference)

Zayan Khan

Swathi Komarivelli

Matthew Lau

(Advisor: Beth Jorgensen)

Athens High School

(Competing at International Conference)

Ryan Cindric

Tanvi Deshmukh (1st in State)

Shriya Shah

Mitchell Wochoski

(Advisor: Kendall Wochoski) 21

Future Problem Solving (cont.)

Troy High School

1st in State-Middle Division-National Qualifier:

Vrushali Ambardekar

Priyal Bajaj

Tiffany Guo

Renuka Murthi (1st in State-Individual)

Lillian Xiao

(Advisor: Lyndsay Noble)

22

Go Green Youth Challenge

Boulan Park Middle School (1st in State)

Britta Pingree

Troy High School (1st Place Nationally)

Claire Hao

Evan Jiang


23

Health Occupations Students

of America (HOSA) Competition

International Academy East (National Qualifier)

Nabila Ahmed Taha Muhammad-Ali

Fatinah Albeez Andrew Nguyen

Sreechandana Anumolu (Gold in States) Basirat Owe

Ajay Balaji Sukhnayak Sohi

Rahul Gopinath Pranav Yadati

Mithil Gudi (Gold in States) Jane Zhou

Lakshmi Meyyappan

(Advisor: Ms. Selweski)

24

Health Occupations Students of

America (HOSA) Competition (cont.)

Troy High School

National Qualifier:

Priyal Bajaj Kathy Lu

Rohit Goru Renuka Murthi

Claire Hao Peter Nam

Sara Huang Christina Xu

Sweta Kafle Claire Yang

Neha Kuchulakanti Jason Zhang

Pranathi Locula

(Advisor: Theresa Martin)

25

Jackie Robinson Art, Essay

and Poetry Contest


1st in State

Mlahat Mahmood

26

Japanese Quiz Bowl

Athens High School

Level 1/Team 1/1st Place:

Dylan Nguyen (8th grader/Larson)

Ben Nolan

Benedikt Weber

Level 4/Team 1/1st Place:

Brian Gill

Gloria Kang

Sasha LaPonsa

Sammy Nandwani

Level 5/1st Place:

Kristine Bassett

Jonathan Li

(Advisor: Mina Mori)

27

Junior Science and Humanities

Symposia (JSHS) Competition

Troy High School

Richard Yang (2nd Place; National Qualifier; $1500 Scholarship)


28

Marriott Hotels

Filmmaker of the Year

Athens High School

Griffin Olis


29

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT) Inspire Writing Competition


(National Finalist)

Angelamarie Malkoun


30

MATHCOUNTS


Reagan Choi (10th in Nation)

Matthew Dong

Pratham Soni (10th in Nation)

Alex Xu (10th in Nation)

(Advisor: Mark Martin)

31

Math Kangaroo Olympiad

Wattles Elementary School

1st in State/11th in Nation

Tejaaswin Raja

(Advisors: Rajagopalan and Sindhuri Kesava Durairajan)

32

Math Olympiad


(International Qualifier)

Ankan Bhattacharya


33

Michigan Chapter of the National

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

34

Athens High School

1st in State - 3 student Emmy Awards

Griffin Olis


Michigan China Quiz Bowl

Art Contest

Troy High School

Semi Park (1st in State)

(Advisor: Sue Lin)

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Michigan China Quiz Bowl


1st in State-Level 2:

Shruthi Sunilkumar

Nathaniel Worrel

(Advisor: Mrs. Song)

Smith Middle School

1st in State – Level 2:

Luis Bello-Nava

Maria Miyoung Lee

(Advisor: Mrs. Song)

36

Michigan China Quiz Bowl (cont.)

37

Troy High School 1st Place High School Division 4

Ho Chul Jung

Eojin Kim

Madeline Lewton

(Advisor: Sue Lin)

Michigan Council of Women

in Technology Foundation

Website Design Competition

38

International Academy East (Finalist)

Varmitha Hullathy

Summer Nguyen


Michigan Elementary/Primary

Team Chess K-3 Championship

Barnard Elementary School

1st in State

Nurayada Albeez Vishnav Ramesh

Tanush Nanaware Nikhil Srinivasan

(Advisor: Gayathri Manickam)

39

Michigan Green Schools Awards

Athens High School

(achieved Evergreen status)

Hannah Ahluwalia

Arsha Ali

Jeremy Clemente

(Advisor: Rachel Peterson)

40

Michigan Interscholastic Forensics

Association (MIFA) Competition

Boulan Park Middle School - 1st in State Sonia Ahmed

Hannah Cheshire

Skylar Farah

Anna Klingler

Danielle Kurkowski

Jack Matthews

Jagan Nallani

Tatum Pafford

Zachary St. Pierre

Katie Tenniswood

(Advisor: Melissa Dodge) 41

Michigan Interscholastic Press

Association (MIPA) Competition

Athens High School

1st in State:

Sydney Bommarito

Nicole Chow

Elliot Gorski

Maya Jurayj

Morgan Kapuscinski

Hope Ma

Danielle Stanichuk

(Advisors: Adam Burns and Rachel Webb)

42

Michigan Interscholastic Press

Association (MIPA) Competition (cont.)

Troy High School – 1st in State

Alexandra Balcoff Fizza Hussain

Amanda Battle Erin Mitchell (All-State Journalist)

Julia Best Artea Muharremi

Jenny Boudon Tiffany Nogoy

Jessica Butler Dakota Peel

Prakhya Chilukuri Ananya Ravi

Kyle Christie Caroline Schlimgen

Charles Douglas Kevin Seto

Tara Giddey Logan Smith

Leah Graham Melissa Smith

Natalie Guisinger Bhavya Sukhavasi

Emily Houde (Advisor: Jayna Salk)

43

Michigan Mathematics

League Competition


Niheera Aedla Varun Rallabandi

Reagan Choi Alankar Shende

Nicholas Hung Sohan Vitallam

Rishi Konduru Alex Xu

Varun Rajesh Gary Xu

Advisors: Stephanie Beswick

Paula Mather

Jennifer Taylor

44

Michigan Music Competition

Athens High School

1st in State:

Kayla Tralka

(Advisor: Heather Paxton)

45

Michigan Music Conference

Young Composers Contest


State Finalist:

Kathryn Jorgensen

(Advisor: Mr. Shankles)

46

Michigan Student Film Festival

Athens High School

(John Prusak Vision Award / Best in Show)

Griffin Olis


47

Model UN Conference

and Competition

48

Troy High School Highest Honor:

Jason Fan

Anshita Khare

Michael Lin

Anna Nichols

Jacob Overberg

KM Rahman

Vikas Sharma

(Advisor: Meghan Riddock)

National Biology Competition

49

Athens High School

(International Biology Scholar)

Varun Sathyan

(Advisor: Jennifer Sprague)

National Chemistry Olympiad

International Academy East (National Qualifier)

Sukhnayak Sohi


Athens High School (Top 50 in the Nation)

Jonathan Li

Alexander Simon (Top 10

in Southeast Michigan)

(Advisor: Jane Moss)

50

National CLASS Essay Contest (Chinese Language Association of Secondary/Elementary)

51

Troy High School

Golden Apple Award Nationally:

Ho Chul Jung

(Advisor: Sue Lin)

National French Exam

Boulan Park Middle School (Level 1)

Chloe Cafferty (9th Nationally)

Angela Dong (12th Nationally)

Matthew Dong (7th Nationally)

Anna Efstate (3rd Nationally)

Shriya Karmarkar (13th Nationally)

Shannon Li (11th Nationally)

Ankita Mahajan (10th Nationally)

Neha Pavuluru (14th Nationally)

Aimee Zheng (12th Nationally)

Kevin Zhou (12th Nationally)

(Advisor: Ashley Conrad)

52

National French Exam (cont.)


Kira Crumpley (15th Nationally) - French 1

Angela Kattula (10th Nationally) - French 2

Camellia Mashal (14th Nationally) - French 1

Esha Munagala (9th Nationally) - French 1

(Advisor: Ashley Conrad)

53

National French Exam (cont.)

Troy High School

Haya Beydoun (10th Nationally) – French 3

Alicia Fu (6th Nationally) – French 2

Iman Manzoor (7th Nationally) – French 1

Julia Meng (10th Nationally) – French 5

Kiran Menon (6th Nationally) – French 2

(Advisor: Sue Fortuna)

54

National German Exam

Troy High School

Gold Medal

Nathan Aman (German 3) Gabriele Rabajoli (German 1)

Brandon Amann (German 2) (1st in State level)

Jacob Berch (German 2) Palkin Rampal (German 4)

Aniket Dagar (German 1) Dikshant Sharma (German 2)

Zain Hameed (German 2) Andrew Vetter (German 2)

Stephen Kurapati (German 2) Anya Welborn (German 2)

Eva Lisowski (German 2) Peyton Young (German 2)

Kevin Qing (German 3)

(Advisor: Brigitte Catlin)

55

National Language Arts League

Boulan Park Middle School (1st in the Nation)

Arlene Chen Neha Pavuluru

Abby Dangremond Maxwell Tu

Angela Dong Apurva Vaddamani (Perfect Score)

Matthew Dong Carol Zhang

Kaitlyn Hao (Perfect Score) Allan Zhao

Shannon Li Aimee Zheng

(Advisors: Allyson Kline and Audrey Wright)

56

National “Who Wants to be a

Mathematician” Competition


1st in State:

Ankan Bhattacharya

(Advisor: Mr. Watson)

57

National Youth Arts Awards

Troy High School

Outstanding Supporting Actors and Ensemble in South Pacific :

Raagini Chandra

Eric Cheng

(Advisor: Rick Bodick)

58

Orchard Lake Film Festival

59

Athens High School (1st in State)

Sydney Bommarito

Morgan Kapuscinski

Danielle Stanichuk


Purple Comet Math Contest

Boulan Park Middle School (1st in International)

Reagan Choi

Matthew Dong

Varun Rajesh

Pratham Soni

Alex Xu

Kevin Zhou

(Advisor: Stephanie Beswick)

60

Quiz Bowl

Smith Middle School

1st in State; 21st Nationally:

Amogh Angadi

Mitchell Chang

Daniel Liu (placed 23rd Individual-Nationally)

Rithvik Mohanarangan

Surya Sanjay

Demetrio Timban

(Advisors: Mrs. D’Ambrosi and Mr. Reimann)

61

Quiz Bowl (cont.)

Troy High School

National Qualifier:

Sujai Arakali

Benjamin Balas

Tuhin Chakraborty

Matt Kunjummen

(Advisor: Erin Fischer)

62

Quiz Bowl/America Answers


(1st in State/4th in Nation)

Anisha Aggarwal

Adhithi Keerthana Athikumar

Ethan Carpenter

Arlene Chen

Matthew Dong

Priya Dutta

Andy Feng

Sameep Gawaskar

Casey Glenn

Sonja Gronstad

Kaitlyn Hao

Vidhiyaa Harish

Dharaneeshwar Jayavelu

Katherine Jean

Caleb Jiang

Srikar Kante

Vallabh Korivi

Nandini Lakshminarayanan

63

Quiz Bowl/America Answers (cont.)

Jieun Lee

Richard Li

Shannon Li

Felix Liang

Vaishnavi Aishwarya

Madhavapeddi

Dhatri Medarametla

Jagangopal Nallani

Siddharth Prasant

Avya Ramprasad

Pratham Soni

Shruthi Sunilkumar

Noah Tanguay

Thejas Thota

Niraj Trivedi

Neelie Tu

Chaitanya Vadlamudi

Raghav Varshney

Anish Vuyyuru

Kevin Wang

Jennifer Won

Emily Wu

64

Quiz Bowl/America Answers (cont.)

Sophia Yee

Carol Zhang

Allan Zhao

Kevin Zhou

(Advisor: Tammy Gilbert)

65

Scholastic Art and Writing

Awards Competition


Angela Chao (Gold Key)

Carly Kubiak (Gold Key)

Divya Shankar (Gold Key)

Tiffany Xu (National Silver Key & Gold Key)

(Advisor: Mary Typinski)

Smith Middle School

Lydia Tan (Gold Key Award & Medal)

(Advisor: Mrs. Krozek)

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Scholastic Art and Writing

Awards Competition (cont.) International Academy East

Samia Ullah (Gold Key)

(Advisor: Tiffany Mack)

Athens High School

Joyce Chen (Gold Key)

Yuki Obayashi (Gold Key)

Griffin Olis (3 Gold Keys)

Adam Rayes (Gold Key)

Nadia Slawick (Gold Key)

Anita Vellaichamy (Gold Key)

(Advisors: Adam Burns and Melissa Velk)

Troy High School

Jenny Zhi (National Award Winner)

(Advisor: Judi Tuma)

67

Science and Engineering Fair

of Metropolitan Detroit

Athens High School

Varun Sathyan (Grand Award Winner/ International Qualifier)

(Advisor: Rachel Peterson)

Troy High School

Amy Li (Grand Award Winner; International Qualifier)

Asavari Rajpurkar (1st in State)

David Wu (1st in State)


68

Science Olympiad

Baker Middle School

1st in State:

Madhav Ramesh

Om Shah

(Advisor: Janet Herberholz)

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Science Olympiad (cont.)

Troy High School

National Qualifier:

Jerry Gao

Claire Hao

Shivani Konduru

Alex Liu

Skanda Palani

Chittesh Thavamani

Justin Zhang

Winston Zhang

(Advisor: William Hevel)

70

Scripps National Spelling Bee (Oakland County Spelling Bee Winner)

Smith Middle School

Divya Aggarwal (11th in Nation)

(Advisor: Ms. Gibson)

71

Siemens Math, Science and

Technology Competition

Troy High School

National Semifinalists:

Sujai Arakali (Team)

Allen Diao (Team)

James Ge (Team)

Lyndsey Gu (Team)

Amy Li (Individual)

Alexander Liu (Team)

David Wu (Individual)

Jennie Yang (Team)

Richard Yang (Team)

72

Stock Market Game


Aryan Gupta

(Advisor: Mark Martin)

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Toshiba ExploraVision

Troy High School

Honorable Mention – Team Award

Justin Fernando

Swetha Kafle

Sribharat Koripella

Vasanth Palanisamy

Varun Purushothaman

Richard Yang


74

Troy Entrepreneurship Club (“Make It Better” Competition)

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Troy High School

1st in State; $100 Award

Krystal Qin

(Advisor: Elena Wollborg)

U.S. Chess Federation National

Elementary K-3 Under 800 Championship

Barnard Elementary School – (2nd in Nationals)

Nurayada Albeez Tanush Nanaware

Akhil Mishra Vishnav Ramesh

Nikhil Srinivasan

(Advisor: Gayathri Manickam) 76

USA Biology Olympiad

77

Troy High School Top 10% Nationally:

Ajith Dupati

Kathleen Gu

Yiyang Shen

Varun Sridhar

David Wu (Top 20 student-Nationally)


Verizon Innovative App Challenge

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Troy High School

Best in State:

Jeff Guan

Evan Jiang

Howard Li

David Nie

Maple Xu


WordMasters Challenge Boulan Park Middle School

1st in Nation:

Angela Chao

Arlene Chen

Francis Fajardo

Kaitlyn Hao

Matthew Hearens

Omar Ibrahim

Vatsal Joshi

Siddharth Lakhani

Jennifer Liu

Parvathi Nagappala

Pratham Soni

Jemima Thomas

Kayla Tompkins

Raghav Varshney

Sohan Vittalam

Kevin Wang

Alex Xu

Bright Xu

Lily Yang

2nd in Nation:

Anisha Aggarwal

Alexandra Armin

Layanga Athalage

Kevin Chang

Arlene Chen

Reagan Choi

Marcus Chung

Anushka Dalvi

Abby Dangremond

Navya Datla

Clarice Deliallisi

Angela Dong

Matthew Dong

Anna Efstate

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2nd in Nation:

Andy Feng

Kaitlyn Hao

Abinivesh Hemakumar

Jemi Isaac

Kolin Jaku

Vicki Jan

Katie Jean

Nour Kanaan

Hee Won Kim

Hyun Kim

Amol Kirtane

Rishi Konduru

Girish Kotagiri

Richard Li

Shannon Li

Felix Liang

Aileen Liu

Jennifer Liu

Ria Ma

Matt Mikhaiel

Apoorva Mirji

Jake Mortimore

Peter Pawlowski

Britta Pingree

Katie Qu

Sohil Ramachandra

Navneet Ramaduri

Zara Rasool

Alankar Shende

Pratham Soni

Gianna Sorge

Saakshi Sovani

Smriti Suresh

Akshaya Suvarna

Rishik Tatavarthi

Nikhil Tatineni

Katherine Tenniswood

Kayla Tompkins

Maxwell Tu

Armita Umamaheswaran

Dominika Urbaniak

Sohan Vittalam

Andrew Wang

Roger Wang

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2nd in Nation:

Allison Wei

Jennifer Won

Claire Wu

Emily Wu

Jasmine Wu

David Xiong

Alex Xu

Lily Yang

Nancy Yao

Christine Zeng

Darren Zeng

Allan Zhao

Katherine Zhao

Aimee Zheng

6th in Nation:

Angela Chao

Arlene Chen

Angela Dong

Matthew Dong

Kaitlyn Hao

Caleb Jiang

Richard Li

Daniel Schroeder

Pratham Soni

Niraj Trivedi

Armita Umamaheswaran

Andrew Wang

David Xiong

Carol Zhang

Aimee Zheng

Kevin Zhou

7th in Nation:

Jemi Isaac

Brendan Kennedy

Rachel Lim

Naisha Phadke

Yuktha Pulavarthi

Katie Qu

Saakshi Sovani

Smriti Suresh

Sharanya Swaminathan

Sofia Urbana

Gary Xu

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Perfect Score of 20:

Alexandra Armin

Navya Datla

Angela Dong

Matthew Dong

Kaitlyn Hao

Matthew Hearens

Vicki Jan

Amol Kirtane

Britta Pingree

Gianna Sorge

Saakshi Sovani

Akshaya Suvarna

Jemima Thomas

Bright Xu

Lily Yang

Katherine Zhao

(Advisors):

Melissa Dodge

Sue Domin

Allyson Kline

Cheryl Megahan

Jacqueline Morris

April Reem

Kendall Rock

Audrey Wright

Smith Middle

School:

(Perfect Score)

Divya Aggarwal

James Terng

(Advisor):

Ms. Gibson

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