[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 100 (Wednesday, June 11, 2025)]
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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CONGRATULATING THE 2025 CONGRESSIONAL AWARD GOLD MEDALISTS
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HON. BRYAN STEIL
of wisconsin
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Mr. STEIL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate this year's
winners of the Congressional Award.
The Congressional Award honors those who strive to be part of
something bigger than themselves. With this award, Congress recognizes
young Americans who devote their free time to an important activity. It
could be taking on a public service project, pursuing a hobby or new
skill, starting a physical fitness program, or going on an outdoor
expedition.
Participants set goals in these areas, and how they do in meeting
them determines the level of award they receive, Just as important,
they receive the sense of pride that comes with fulfilling a mission.
The program, established in 1979, is a great way to motivate young
people to develop the building blocks of good citizenship.
I congratulate each of the awards' winners.
I include in the Record a list of this year's Congressional Award
Gold Medalists from around the country, including three recipients from
the great state of Wisconsin.
2025 Congressional Award Gold Medalists
AK: Joshua Pak
AL: Grant David Hershbine, Autumn Kerby, Andrew Kerby,
Isabella Russell
AP: Elliott Lee
AR: Daniel Bragg, Easton Everett, Braden Lisowe
AZ: Metin Akkaya, Saraa Alshawa, Iris Butler, Joaquin
Galindo, Malaika Hayat, Daniel Johnson, Tessa Leon, Mckenna
Leon, Roshni Nagarakanti, Noureen Nakshbandi, Merissa Richey,
Nicole Spry, Yiyi Sun, Nolan Takeuchi, Rabia Zehra Unver,
Tyler Wang
CA: Benjamin Ahmad, Ashley Ahn, Roshan Ambegaonkar, Iris
An, Betul Zeynep Arat, Lucy Ariunbayar, Sawyer Ashland,
Kallesh Ashoka, Tristan Barre, Kieran Beckham, Hrishi
Bharath, Haley Blackman, Constantine James Blastos, Michael
Blastos, Evan Bohne, Alexander Bowen, Aneel Brar, Joshua
Brookens, Jackson Bunnin, Asher Bunnin, Alexander Byun,
Wilson Callaway, Kelly Campbell, Gabrielle Campbell, Francine
Carr, Nathaniel Cha, Dylan Chadwick, Kyle Chan, Nathan Chang,
Dongkyu Chang, Scarlett Chang, Tiffany Chang, Tianwen Chen,
Seline Cheung, Yagnik Chilamakuri, Hailey Cho, Isabella Choi,
Eunice Choi, Jennifer Eunseo Choi, Sumin Choy, Victoria Chun,
Matthew Chung, Madison Chung, Christine Chung, Wonnie Chung,
Elif Cicek, Alexander Cornell, Sravya Damarla, Rikhil
Damarla, Ananya Devkirti, Matthew Dewitt, Annabelle Do,
Daniel Eun, Lola Forbes-Black, Luke Fowler, Nolan Freyer,
Serena Gandhi, Alec Grantz, Hannah Gu, Bonmin Gu, Chaoming
Guo, Lauren Han, Yuxuan He, Annalia Henderson, Miles
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Hexun, Kaden Hong, Yueun Hong, Nathan Hong, Michael Hsieh,
Zidong Hu, Nina Huang, Erin Hwang, Daniel Hwang, Manon Iwata,
Kanon Iwata, Hyoungjun Jeon, Eunice Jin, Grace Jin, Sonit
Joshi, Ryan Jung, Andrew Jung, Aayush Kafle, Sarah Kang,
Shriya Kapavarapu, Quade Kelley, Alper Keskinturk, Rohan
Khanna, Jason Khauv, Yena Kim, Jacob Kim, Claire Kim, Na
Young Kim, Yeonwoo Kim, Edric Kim, Paul Kim, Jayden Kim, Tony
Kim, Irene Kim, Eunchan Kim, Minjae Kim, Naomi Kim, Joseph
Kim, Sungmin Kim, Sophie Kim, Ryan Kim, Brian Kim, Hannah
Kim, Chase Kim, Noah Kim, Taylor Minjun Kim, Jenna Kim, Ted
Kim, Nathan Kim, Mooyong Kim, Sophia Kim, Jua Kim, Elisa Kim,
Nimeesha Komatireddy, Aditya Kota, Ria Kupumbati, Isaac Kwon,
Heather Lam, Skylar Lariviere, Lukas Larkin, Jacqueline
Larsen, Claire Lawson, Sarah Lee, Seth Lee, Brandon Lee,
Audrey Lee, Chaewon Lee, Junmyeong Lee, Noah Lee, Katherine
Lee, Eric Lee, Alex Lee, Alexis Lee, Kangmin Lee, Jonathan
Lee, Xenia Lee, Tyler Lee, Olivia Lee, Hannah Lee, Mina Lee,
Roanne Lee, Kevin Lee, Janice Lee, Elliot Lee, Benjamin Lee,
Christine Li, Walton Li, Joshua Libby, Jihyo Lim, Carson Lim,
Dorina Lin, Tyler Liu, Elizabeth Magruder, Sarina Marzbani,
Dhilen Mistry, Vishnu Moorthy, Bodhi Morgan, Luke Morrison,
Namrata Motwani, Aryan Mukherjee, Audrey Na, Chris Nam, Chase
Nam, Sudheshna Narala, Miles Nicholas, Daniel Noh, Anika
Nunes, Moferanoluwa Odunaiya, Jaden Oh, Eubin Oh, Arene Oh,
Dilek Ozorpak, Evan Pak, Anika Parade, Aarit Parekh, Jimin
Park, Kathy Park, Jaehee Park, Keenan Park, Jaeyoon Park,
Ryan Park, Zoe Park, Erina Park, Anya Pramanick, Callie
Pyken, Bailey Quan, Shivani Raj, Roopa Rajagopalan, Serena
Ren, Yeongung Rho, Dilnoor Riar, Amy Roh, Anay Sabhnani,
Anika Salaniwal, Krrish Singh Sardar, Adarsh Senthilnathan,
Hyeonmin Seo, Krishay Sharma, Ojas Shastri, Kaelyn Shin,
Ashley Shin, Daniel Shin, Audrey Shiono, Jaclyn Sim, Sonal
Singh, Aanya Singh, Olivia So, Kailyn Song, Yuna Song,
Jasmine Sorgen, Alexandra St.Wecker, Levi Stratton, Tanvi
Sudireddy, Grace Suk, Ethan Sun, Ciara Tadeo, Evan Takehara,
Alyssa Tan, Ertugrul Tan, Eliana Tang, Namith Tatipigari,
Ella Townsend, Charu Tripathi, Selen Turkoz, Maren Uyemura,
Ananya Vuppula, Arthur Wang, Lixing Wang, Evan Wilson, Chloe
Won, David Wong, Yewon Woo, Katelynn Wu, Jenida Yang, Emily
Yi, Ella Yoo, Sarah Yoo, Ryan Yoo, Jacob Yun, Cyrus Zahiri,
Camy Zahiri, Lilian Zeng, Chenyuan Zhang, Grace Zhao, Andrew
Zheng, Audrey Zhu
CO: Zaina Abouyoussef, Zachary Curtis, Alessandro Fabbri,
Amy Gao, Mahi Mehta, Spencer Peesel, Gavin James Schmidt
CT: Daniel Babashak, Bradford Benton, Pahal Bhasin,
Alexander Etergino, Anna Leventon, Bruce Matos, Samuel Peck,
Abigail Phelan, Cooper Taylor, Gavin Villepigue
DC: Sowmya Natarajan, Jordan Williams
DE: Gabriella Bourantas, Emily Geldreich, Michaela Kim,
RoshikNagaSai Patibandla
FL: Emerson Allen, Caris McKenzie Amador, Gianluca Balzano,
Snigdha Beesabathuni, Leena Benbrahim, Chase Bennett, Alexis
Benson, Charles Benson, Giulia Canello, Chase Connor, Joshua
Cook, Brooke Crabtree, Johannes Csaszar, Hannah Csaszar,
Lucas Estrada, Marco Ferri, Noah Forman, John Fox, Nirek
Gada, Anya Gada, Andrew Graham, Alyssa Hayman, Sara Husain,
Reed Joeckel, Shailey Karri, Lucy Lampkin, Anavi Modi, Arushi
Panwar, Chase Pariseleti, Constantino Pena, Ananya Purimetla,
Chloe Ryder, Monish Saravana Kumar Divya Sundari, Dhruva
Rishi Sharma, Daniela Staton, Hannah Stefanovic, Liza
Stephen, Brady Surovek, Zion Tralongo, Shrika Velagapudi,
Alice Wenrich, Katerina Zaharewicz
GA: Beyza Bahar, Malachi Ivey, Sean Lee, Sanaa Scipio,
Mihikaa Seth, Sumeda Sriram, Akshaya Tallapally, Rishi
Vempati, Victoria Ying, Gene Young Yoon, Aniston Zhang
HI: Rei Rhymer
IA: Nicholas Byrum, Nathan Lee
ID: Amelia Crawford
IL: Archita Ruby Arun, Annabelle Blevins, Jackson Canellis,
Yavuz Er, Connor Gerrish, Aidan Hennessy, Marcel Hill, Keith
Jackson, Ava Jurek, Grace Kim, Laura Krowiak, Nailah Mansury,
Avi Narepalem, Reyhan Onder, Shreemann Patel, Natalie
Rasmussen
IN: Annamaria Ebersole, Trenton Qualls, Emma Smith, Alisa
Yarling
KS: Shayan Ahmed, Sanjana Akkulugari, Leonard Bertels,
Janis Curit, Korbin Davis, Moira Fink, Xiang Jiao, Eshan
Patel, Anvita Rayabarapu, Carlos Salazar, Ainesh
Tallapragada, Aarush Tallapragada
KY: William Bache, Elizabeth King, Tyler Solon, Audrey
Wallace
LA: Gangin Lee, Stephen Dominic Sclafani, Peter Yu
MA: Robert Fawcett, Aarush Gondalia, Joely Gubitosi, Kruthi
Gundu, Nathan Kim, Anika Nagle, Anoushka Nagle, Lukeman
Nouri, Amarachi Okwor, Lindsey Pagett (Huffman), Arhan
Shrivastava, Hayim Sims, Tiffany Strachan, Hannah Sui
MD: Christopher Biabani, Andrew Bian, Duke Boateng, Andrew
Boyce, Ishaan Busireddy, Shrihaan Chaudhary, Mathilda
DeCosse, Zana Hess, Neha Kukatla, Martin Meister, Joshua Oh,
Simone Pulerwitz-Waisbord, Emily Shi, Michael Shi, Vaishnavi
Uppalapati, Chelsea Zhu
MI: Swathi Jeeda, Griffin Maline, Patrick Phillips, Rakshan
Samynathan, Abigail Schafer, Ian Sim, Nisha Singhi
MN: Alexander Allocco, Ellie Donnay, Thomas Hoffman,
Michael Luo
MO: Nevinka Amarakone, Nethmi Amarakone, Mahith Amarakone,
Matthew Austin, Madeline Awad, Caleb Brown, Grace Fu, Andrew
Hunt, Henry Naught, Zawadi Oyugi, Benjamin Parker, Vishmi
Rajapaksha, Rebecka Stanley, Lilly Stevens
MS: Jack Durr, Celia Lane, Bradyn Long, Ethan Mccreary,
Rebekah Schilling, Morgan White, Tyler Shelton Woods
NC: Mevlut Atay, Aakash Basarkar, Ishaan Bhasin, Pranav
Bhatnagar, Cecilia Elizabeth Boiling, Lola Brienza, Sofia
Brienza, Emily D'Abreo, Ali Evliya, Indu Gadiraju, Caroline
Harris, Rachel Johnson, Emma Johnson, Lucas Johnson, Kendall
Leak, Angela Li, Nia MacQueen, William `Kent' Mautner, Jack
McDermott, Wil Gabriel McDermott, Cameron Mitchell, Finlay
Mitchell, Aidan O'Connor, Vaideep Pemmada, Ahish Pidikiti,
Murat Sahin, Caleb Shin, Stone Simpson, Ejay Tan, Hannah
Thovtrup, Colby Townsend, Prakruthi Upadhya, Jacob Yoneoka,
Fletcher Yost, Alexander Young
NH: Maggie Feng, Alexander Miller, Noah Richardson
NJ: Aarti Advani, Suvit Asnani, Nathaniel Attardi, Suchit
Basineni, Jacob Belenkiy, Myanelle Bituin, Nathaniel Chan,
Matthew Friscia, Daniel Guo, Seth Hannah, Rex Jacobs, Mahika
Jawa, Theo Jeon, Anirudh Joginpalli, Ananya Joginpalli,
Mahanth Komuravelli, Anamitra Kugapalan, Caden Masonis, Leah
Park, Caleb Park, Josephine Parlo, Yashvi Patel, Jeeya Patel,
Khushi Patel, Krisha Patel, Aanya Patel, Abigail Pope, Dongyu
Qu, Vikramaditya Rajput, John Reiter, Christopher Rhatigan,
Soor Sanghvi, Suhani Sengupta, Aum Shah, Krish Shah, Arushi
Singh, Darsh Srivastava, Matthew Strauss, Latif Tabanli,
Dylan Thomas, Arden Upadya, Luke Vrankovic, Willow Yoo,
Brandon Yu
NV: Ibrahim Akgedik, Adarsh Anumalasetty, Vanessa Booth,
Lara Karaalp, Adeline Kurian, Sammy Skier, Dana Surwill
NY: Lily Ahlborn, Yashas Balguri, David Brophy, Liam
Bullock, Sathvik Charugundla, Samantha Garson, Nora Gupta,
Matthew Harrington, Srikarthi Jaggavarapu, Nan Jiang, Meagan
Kerins, Catherine Kerins, Logan Kielty, Ella Kim, Jayne Kim,
Tyler Maxwell Kodi, Saipraneeth Kotimreddy, Christopher Lau,
Franklin Lee, Talia Lioce, Ayan Mahajan, Ahaan Modi, Kaya
Parikh, Siddharth Pasari, Saanvi Peri, Siri Polepalle, Ramya
Reddi, Rajit Reddi, Jessica Ren, Jenna Ruiz, Paul Schultz,
Ryan Smith, Sahana Sundar, Amogh Teepireddy, Noam Traeger,
Lancelot Workman, Emma Zhang, Yifan Zhou
OH: Vidya Akella, Samantha Fleming, Joelle Frederiksen,
Arjun Jain, Paul Moody, Prithika Padmanabhan, Shiven Parikh,
Prisha Reddy Rajulapalli, Kaitlyn Roberts, Soorya Shanmugam,
Aswat Sivakumar, Sahana Srikanth, Sakshum Vij, Riley
Wilkerson, Danielle Wolford
OK: Peyton Mahan
OR: Grace Choi, Maylie Eby, Soohyon Kim, Annamika Konkola,
Jiya Mehta, Caleb Alexander Stonecliffe, Chelsea Teh, Olivia
Thornburg
PA: Eshal Ahmad, Alexander Bland, Sarah Chenoweth, Arianna
Fowler, Ria Gandotra, Brent Gaspich, Edward Gebhardt, Sathvik
Gopu, Ava Kominski, Andrew Li, Angelina Li, Sarah Liu, Eric
Perkins, Theodore Tedesco, Daksh Tiwari, Adam Wyatt
PR: Ashley Barlow
RI: Felicity Kushner
SC: Brooke Dillingham, Sarah Anne Ward
TN : Iiyana Bachmann, Isabel Hyatt, Kylie Katelyn Patterson
TX: Wyatt Allen, Shaktivel Anand, Surya Anand, Jenna
Barker, Terrence Bell, Luca Campbell, Kaye Chen, Brynn Comes,
Sunil Chandra Desha, Gautam Devashish, Ayushmaan Dubey,
Cooper Fairman, Alicia Fan, Aidan Farrell, Sophie Fu,
Christopher Gaither, Sharon Yajaira Gaona, Shreeya Gedda,
Richard Geng, Blake Gibson, Diego Guiot Villarreal, Brendan
Hare, Isabella Hicks, Ai-Vy Ho, Aila Jiang, Alyssa Jiang,
Simona Jude, Sohum Kanabar, Muammer Kara, Jonathan Le, Jun
Lee, Hannah Leem, Elizabeth-Grace Liu, Maya Maliakal, Hitesh
Mallula, Panav Mhatre, Courtney Moraa Mayore, Evan Moss,
Nathaniel Mun, Saanvi Mylavarapu, Betul Ozgen, Shreya
Poladia, Micah Wren Przymus, Beck Riedel, Arya Santosh, Aarah
Sardesai, Sydney Shield, Rohan Singhal, Jordan Rylie Smith,
William Ryan Smith, Dylan Stump, Sanjay Sai Sundaram, Orlyola
Tantchou, Asvini Thivakaran, Siddharth Tripathi, Evan June
Wilkerson, Noah Wood, Brian Woodland, Bryant Wu, Reyyan
Yorulmaz
UT: Scarlett Batty, Melbourne Earl, William Evershed,
Nes'et Kablan, Alexander Pham, Yerassyl Sarsekeyev, Colin
Smith, Trysten Torgerson, Mahina Vogt
VA: Shreyes Aier, Murat E. Aksoy, Asude Arslan, Chingiz
Bahadur, Isaiah John Boesch, Eli Casey, Gabriel Cervoni,
Sriram Chalamacharla, Necla Cubukcu, Owen Davenport, Henry
Dozier, Titus Er, Archit Gupta, Aanya Gupta, Ansh Gupta,
Aarav Gupta, Zane Javeri, Jason Jayanth, Rachel Kim, Emily
Kim, Junseo Kim, Daniel Lee, Richard Li, Hannah Lorenzo,
Amayla Lorenzo, Sabrina Lu, Katelyn Lysaght, Caitlyn Murphy,
Hashmita Nittala, Gabriel Parsons, Adhya Penati, Hansa Samur,
Shivangi Singh, Amrit Singh, Katherine Sullivan, Saatvik
Sunilraj, Ella VanStory, Teresa Maria Vithoulkas, Manya
Yellepeddy, Sulenur Zirekoglu
VT: Alexander Califano, Matthew Califano
WA: Aubrey Jane Moore, Julian Roger, Shawna Sanjay, Simone
Shenoi, David van Wingerden, Mihika Venkateswar, Smera
Venkateswar, Andrew Yoon
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WI: Suhaeng Huh, Jack Molaison, Rebecca Susmilch
WY: Julian Edmunds, Axie Elsasser, Taylor Frauendienst,
Shelby Hoobler, Shelby Kirkbride, Harper Klinger, James
Neishabouri, Kinzley Nusbaum, Michael Tully Rubich, Lukas
Salsgiver, Lincoln Searle, Vesper Seitz, Loriana Walter
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