The following students were recognized:<\/p>\n
Plano West Senior High School<\/p>\n
\tAyush Appan and Yang Bai (not pictured) – Public Forum Debate, 3rd place nationally
\n\tRehan Buvvaji (not pictured) – U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking, National Finalist, 5th Place nationally
\n\tAnika Cherukuri and Catherine Cockrell (not pictured) – Duo Interpretation, National Semifinalist, 7th place nationally
\n\tEric Qian (not pictured) – International Extemporaneous Speaking, National Finalist, 3rd place nationally
\n\tRoshan Shivnani (not pictured) – U.S. Extemporaneous Speaking, National Finalist, 3rd place nationally
\n\tRyan Xu (not pictured) – International Extemporaneous Speaking, National Finalist, 2nd place nationally\u00a0for the second year in a row<\/p>\n
Plano Senior High School<\/p>\n
\tLawson Leblanc (not pictured) – Congressional Debate: Senate, National Finalist, 7th\u00a0place nationally<\/p>\n
Jasper High School<\/p>\n
\tAbhay Harika and Lillian Lang – Public Forum Debate, 7th place nationally<\/p>\n
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UIL State Champions and Placers<\/p>\n
In May 2026, UIL honorees competed in the\u00a0Class 6A State Meet\u2014 the largest classification in Texas, made up of approximately 250 of the state’s biggest high schools. To reach state,\u00a0students had to place at the district level and advance through regionals. Earning a State 6A title means being recognized as the best in Texas.<\/p>\n
The following students were recognized:<\/p>\n
Plano East Senior High School<\/p>\n
\tTarwat Chowdhury (not pictured) – Extemporaneous Informative Speaking, State 6A Champion<\/p>\n
Plano Senior High School<\/p>\n
\tRiya Chhaya – Extemporaneous Persuasive Speaking, State 6A Champion<\/p>\n
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Plano West Senior High School<\/p>\n
\tAnika Cherukuri (not pictured) –\u00a0Prose Interpretation, 3rd place
\n\tVarshini Arun\u00a0– Extemporaneous Persuasive Speaking, 4th place<\/p>\n
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Congratulations to all these students, their families, teachers, and campus administrators for their support and belief in their students, which led to this tremendous success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the September 8 Plano ISD Board of Trustees meeting, the board had the privilege of recognizing outstanding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,2610,161,2609],"class_list":["post-433485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-independent-school-district","tag-plano-news","tag-posts-details-default-board-post-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}