Conestoga Valley High School (CVHS) served as the host of the Pennsylvania Technology Student Association (TSA) Regional Competition on Jan. 26. About 450 students in grades six to 12 from Lancaster, Lebanon, and Berks counties competed in more than 50 different events.

For Conestoga Valley, seven high school individuals or teams captured first-place finishes, while six middle school individuals or teams took home first place. Many of the students will compete in the TSA state conference in Seven Springs in April.

The high school students and teams that placed at the event were Joanna Chen and Shyleen Le: fourth place, Biotechnology Design; Jack Welch and Reilly Rohrer: fourth place, Coding; Owen Gensel: third place, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Engineering; Nicholas Taraborelli: eighth place, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Engineering; Jay Bowland, Cory DeChristopher, and Alastair Shea: second place, Digital Video Production; Dominic Santamaria: first place, Dragster Design; Caleb Reiff: 13th place, Dragster Design; Nicholas Taraborelli: sixth place, Flight Endurance; Lizzy Heredia: third place, Future Technology & Engineering Teacher; Owen Gensel, Judah Groff, Ian Kremer, Reagan Schnapf, and Kevin Nguyen: first place, Music Production; Jay Bowland, Jaxson Burton, Cory DeChristopher, Alastair Shea, Izaiah Richardson, and Chase Wolf: first place, On Demand Video; Alastair Shea: sixth place, Photographic Technology; Aadi Vala: sixth place, Prepared Presentation; Joanna Chen: second place, Promotional Design; and Caleb Reiff, Dominic Santamaria, Alastair Shea, Gavin Macsi, Josiah Hoover, and Joshua Yoder: second place, Robotics.

Also, Caleb Reiff and Dominic Santamaria: first place, Structural Design & Engineering; Owen Gensel and Kevin Nguyen: fourth place, Structural Design & Engineering; Josiah Hoover, Joshua Yoder, and Aaryan Shah: first place, System Control Technology; Evan Harner, Luca Boley, and Gavin Macsi: second place, Music Production; Nicholas Eby, Richard Nguyen, and Coalton Barley: third place, Music Production; Aadi Vala and Richard Nguyen: third place, Technology Bowl; Evan Harner, Caleb Martin, and Gavin Macsi: eighth place, Technology Bowl; Caleb Reiff and Josiah Hoover: first place, Technology Problem Solving; Ethan Schnapf and Joshua Yoder: sixth place, Technology Problem Solving; Reagan Schnapf and Kevin Nguyen: eighth place, Technology Problem Solving; Cory DeChristopher: fourth place, Transportation Modeling; Izaiah Richardson, Caleb Shenk, Josiah Hoover, Chase Wolf, and Aaryan Shah: first place, Video Game Design; Dominic Santamaria: second place, PA-Materials Process; Caleb Martin: sixth place, PA-Materials Process; Gavin Macsi: fourth place, Technology Bowl - Written; Jack Welch: eighth place, Technology Bowl - Written; and Richard Nguyen: 10th place, Technology Bowl - Written.

Middle school students and teams that placed included Ryan Ault and Avery Fisher: first place, Audio Podcasting; Avery Fisher: first place, Career Prep; Ryan Ault and Jaxon Bond: first place, Challenging Technology Issues; Avery Fisher and Emma Van Lenten: second place, Challenging Technology Issues; Angelica Dickerson and Emma Van Lenten: third place, Coding; Ryan Ault: first place, Dragster; Angelica Dickerson, Avery Fisher, and Emma Van Lenten: first place, Leadership Strategies; Ryan Ault and Kyle Morrie: eighth place, Problem Solving; Jaxon Bond, Alex Hursh, and Kyle Morrie: first place, System Control Technologies; Jacob Heefner, Carson Keim, and Dalton Le: second place, System Control Technologies; Alex Hursh and Kyle Morrie: second place, Video Game Design; and Alex Hursh: 13th place, Tech Bowl - Written.