[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 10, 2026)]
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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
CONGRATULATING THE 2026 CONGRESSIONAL AWARD GOLD MEDALISTS
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HON. BRYAN STEIL
of wisconsin
in the house of representatives
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
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 award's winners.
I include in the Record a list of this year's Congressional Award
Gold Medalists from around the country, including two recipients from
the great state of Wisconsin:
2026 Congressional Award Gold Medalists
AK: Rachel C. Anderson
AL: William Crocker, Joshua Macri
AP: Chloe Lee
AR: Brianna Moore
AZ: Gulfinaz Atceken, Johnathan Barbeau II, Anastasia
Bradley, Renae Brown, Amanda Grace Burlington, Esther Cui,
Furkan Dorum, Jessica Finnie, Hazel Hurlbut, Pariyat Jain,
Cooper Johnson, Hiyun Lee, Chloe Mayfield, Kalyn McLeod, Ella
Meaker, William Steenken, Sadiya Uddin, Eric Wang
CA: Romeo Ahn, Timothy Ahn, Selim Aksu, Dila Alkan, Marah
Alomari, Claire An, David An, Stephan Moses An, Ismail Alp
Arslan, Madison Bae, Daniel Baek, Seoah Back, Eugene Ban,
Ethan Bedetti, Connor Benin, Logan Benin, Bhuvana
Bhamidipati, Aron Bhavsar, Diya Bhootra, Freya Bikel, Grayson
Bloes, Lilly Boman, Ellie Byun, Lila Callaway, Katharine
Campbell, William Candela, Joshua Chae, Aiden Chang,
Elizabeth Chang, Sailee Charlu, Chloe Chen, Elise Chen,
Isabella Chen, Justin Chen, Beckett Cheng, Ian Chhek, Elliott
Adam Chi, Gohith Chittajallu, Daniel Cho, Isabel Cho, Junmin
Cho, Mikel Cho. Allen Choi, Gavin Choi, Peter Choi, Soen
Choi, Timothy Choi, Yejoon Choi, Elizabeth Christensen,
Michael Christensen, Brianna Chu, Ian Chu, Chloe Chun, Isaac
Chun, Andrew Chung, Daye Chung, Andrew Chyu, Camryn Cooper,
Joseph Curtis. Phoebe Dang, Rohan Dhameja, Derek Di, Ocean
Du, Yusuf Durmaz. Selma Emekci, Kerem Eren. Ali Forbush,
Caroline Rose Foster, Ethan Fu, Vivienne Fullerton, Neha
Ganesan, Sanaa Garach, Rishabh Garg, Mekan Geldiyev, Ian
Gopen, Anusha Grewal, Niveta Sree Gunda, Adya Gupta, Anshika
Gupta, Rajvansh Gupta, Shreeya Gupta, Suhani Gupta, Jaden
Ham, Sophia Han, James Hart, Hajra Hasan, Avery Hexun, Conway
Ho, Paige Hoffmann, Reagan Hoffmann, Ann Hong, Ashley Yoonsuh
Hong, Ethan Hong, Grace Hong, Kayden Hong, Kushi Hosahalli,
Thomas Houston, Grace Huang, Hayden Hughes, Andrew Jaehoon
Hwang, Ellen Hwang, Jake Hwang, Sol Hwang, Isaac Jang, Junue
Jang, Peter Jang, Phillip Jang, Rachelle Jang, Seongwon Jang,
Milla Jans, Daniel Jin, Andrew Jo, Saanvi Juneja, Elizabeth
Jung, Sydney KIm, Nikhil Kalburgi, Alex Kang, Andrew Kang,
Ashley Kang, Jake Kang, Taeui Kang, Andrew Kao, Neel Karur-
Parekh, Ishaan Kendale, Berra Keskin, Kamil Keskin, Burak
Keskinturk, Rayhan Khan, Aaron Kim, Aiden Kim, Aiden Kim,
Alice Kim, Andrew Kim, Angela Kim, Benjamin Kim, Bethany Kim,
Cameron Kim, Chaeeun Kim, Chloe Kim, Claire Kim, Danielle
Kim, Elaine Kim, Elliot Kim, Euna Kim, Hailey Kim, Hyunjun
Kim, Jason Kim, Jayden Kim, Jayden Kim, Jiwon Kim, Joshua
Kim, Matthew Kim, Nicole Kim, Ryan Kim, Seohyun Kim, Susan
Kim, Yena Kim, Yulyi Kim, Zachary Kim, Alison Ko, Claire Ko,
Yegeon Ko, Rithik Kompelli, Noah Hamin Koo, Anya Kothari,
Joanna Kruglick, Jane Kwak, Wing-Hong Lam, Aaron Lee, Alvin
Lee, Asher Lee, Brandon Lee, Brian Lee, Caleb Lee, Chris Lee,
Christian Lee, Daniel Lee, Daniel Lee, Denise Lee, Dongha
Lee, Emily Lee, Eunhyeok Lee, Eunsang Lee, Geonhee Lee, Hajin
Lee, Hea Lee, Hwanyi Lee, Isaac Lee, James Lee, Jamie Taeeun
Lee, Joel Lee, Jooha Lee, Joshua Lee, Katelyn Lee, Matthew
Lee, Mike Lee, Nicole Lee, Noah Lee, Riley Lee, Sean Lee,
Seohoo Lee, Soeun Lee , Lorin Leung, Calli Levine, Jinghan
Li, Zihan Li, Ethan Liang, JingJing Liang, Katie Libby,
Brandon Lim, Joseph Lim, Kayla Lim, Lynzie Lim, Theo Lim,
Brandon Lin, Grishm Lingareddy, Toby Litman, Caltong Liu,
Kevin Liu, Joshua Lo, Dhruva Madhan, Anya Malhotra, Erika
Marasas, Richelle Maruya-Cho, Benjamin Blue McDonald, Katie
Meggers, Luke Meggers, Nick Meggers, Hailey Mellot, Georgia
Merriam, Chris Min, Sophie Min, Chloe Moon, Michael Moon,
Leah Mordehai, Evan Myung, Kate Nagareda, Jacob Nahm, Shriram
Naidu, Jathan, Nandi, Tejas Nandi, Hyunjoon Noh, Mirela Novak
Tamellini, Azra Odabasoglu, Andrew Oh, Andrew Oh, Harold Oh,
Hyunjung Oh, Jonathan Oh, Yeonwoo Oh, Yashwanth Oruganti,
Caden Ouh, Keisha Pai, Jihan Pak, Paige Pak, Saisha Pal,
Sonya Paleja, Riya Pallikonda, Anuj Parikh, Aiden Park,
Aileen Jihye Park, Celine Park, Jaeyun Park, Jason Park,
Jubin Joshua Park, Kailyn Park, Kihwan Park, Lawrence Park,
Sharon Park, Siwoo Park, So Hee Park, So Yeon Park, Soyun
Park, Kavin Patel, Krishna Patel, Vihaan Patel, Zahra Patel,
Agasthya Pattipati, Aaron Peter, Casey Peters, Colin Phan,
Catherine Pi, Soham Pinapala, Lucas Pipkins, Virika
Podichetty, Rishabh Prabhat, Nysha Prasad, Roland Pratt, Arit
Prince, Giovanna Quevedo, Aadya Rai, Arjun Raj, Meghna
Rangarajan, Saanj Rao, Ayaan Raza, Taara Reddy, Naina Rewal,
Neil Rewal, Zachary Reynolds, Annette Rhee, Dahee Ryu, Jehoon
Ryu, Taina Saenz, Gabriel Sanchez, Neha Shaik, Armand Shaken,
Stefan Shaken, Nimishii Sharma, Hugo Shek, Riya Shelar,
Makela Shen, Chenpeng Sheng, Nisha Shenoy, Aryav Sheth, Suri
Sheth-Shelat, Ethan Shi, Andrew Shin, Hayden Shin, Abhinav
Shivalli, Mourya Sibala, Niyant Sithamraju, Xinqing Situ,
Olivia Skeete, Chloe Son, Daniel Son, Younga Son, Emma Song,
Isabel Song, Akash Sriram, Carolyn Suh, Jiyun Suk, Miju Suk,
Zihan Sun, Miu Takahashi, Tanvi Thallapalle, Amber Thornal,
Claire Thrasher, Ananya Tirumala, Vaani Tiwari, Kiyan Torabi
Parizi, Natthakun Towashiraporn, Thomas Tran, Nerissa Tsai,
Ritvik Urkude, Eashan Wahi, Noelle Wan, Brandon Wang, Melody
Wang, Christa Wong, Logan Wong, Daniel Wu, Erin Wu, Evan Wu,
Sarah Xiang, Kaitlyn Yamanaka, Vera Yang, Bowen Yao, Evelyn
Yao, Matthew Yap, Samantha Yee, Sriaditi Yellamraju, Felix
Yin, Alexander Yoon, Cecilia Yoon, Chloe Yoon, Emily Yoon,
Matthew Yoon, Yeowon Yoon, Allison Yu, Joshua Yu, Kathy Yu,
Miles Yui, Jolin Zeng, Angelina Zha, Andrew Zhang, Matthew
Zhang, Tiana Zhang, Xiruo Zhang, Aaron Zheng, Iris Zheng,
Oscar Zhong, David Zhou, Patrick Zhou, Vanessa Zhou, ZiHan
Zhou, Zifan Zhou
CO: Ellory Anne Bauersfeld, Zachary Gao, Owen Tribbett,
Michael Zhang
CT: Emma Frisbie, Shaoheng He, Henry Jin, Anushka
Khubchandani, Cole Kim, Grace Lee, Jai Patel, Allison Phelan,
Daksh Suryadevara, Carina Weidmann
DC: Ayonlah Mckia Carter, Arin Tucker, Luke Paul
Kannankeril Voss
DE: Joseph Zogheib
FL: Christy Banker, Matthew Bartel, Sam Crimaldi, Grace
Diez, Noor El-Helw, Lilly Freese, Suma Gadde, Anusha Gupta,
Cameron Hamilton, Tristan Hoon, Noah Howes, Yash Jhala, Eric
Mathemeier, Evangeline Mathemeier, Enzo Paesano, Yuthika
Panigrahi, Joseph Penkala, Andrew Polhemus, Ashleigh
Polhemus, Kaya Price, Adeline Roach, Carina Rocco, Alana
Rodante, Zanele Sanchez, Selena Shen, Arav Shintre, Andrew
Slentz, Michael Wagner, Michelle Wagner, Yuelu Wang, Evan
Warford, Bo Warnken, Xiaowen Zheng
GA: Veeksha Annapureddy, Rhythm Bazari, Kessler Bibb,
McFerrin Bibb, Read Elizabeth Blanco, Cailin Bohm, Jatin
Bottu, Lia Heard, Elizabeth Hong, Nyla Hopkins,
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Siddhu Jitta, Sahasra Kalva, Emiliana Korin, Katherine
Kringelis, Jin Won Lee, Jason Park, Mary Thomas Smith, Colbie
Stanek, Aaron Michael Urbanawiz
HI: Cassidy Goldyn, Jessica Lee
ID: Philip Broome, Jiwon Park, Kyle Brill Rohlinger,
Harrison Wise
IL: Ava Babula, Noah Cho, John Ciok, Daniel Goodwin, Gage
Lang, Riya Narepalem, Amritha Praveen, Cameron Rajcevich,
Kate Reidenbach, Ria Saini, Aislinn Taylor
IN: William Chambley, Samuel Dixon, Paige Earls, Lindsey
Gunter, Sydney Kruger, Sophia Miller, Ethan Preyss, Lucas
Preyss, Alessandro Salerno, Jonathan Smith
KS: Jaya Bhoot, Ben Caisley, Mira Gupta, Landon Lobaugh,
Sarim Rashid, Aditya Rastogi
KY: Katie Allison, Kate Solon
LA: Spencer Sutton Creech, Charlotte Gomes, Luka
Mikaberidze
MA: Keira Condon, Charlotte Elwy, Rebecca Fusco, David
Kang, Sara Khan, Hugh Kramer, Donya Shah, Hanna Suzuki, Ryan
Tang, Lucas Yang, Tomas Young
MD: Alexander Butler, Evelyn Chao, Luke Cho, Sophie Huang,
Amira Mhoon, Liam Riley, Junie Ro, Fenley Scurlock, Anabel
Sha, Jonathan Zhong Shan, Madison Shapiro, Jeremy Tao, Evan H
Xin, Sophia Yeung, Brandon Yu, Lin Zheng
ME: Victoria Elizabeth Wahlig
MI: Tommy Bullinger, Nicholas Caplea, Hannah Davis, Noah
Davis, Lauren Hatto, Jishnu Kandalam, Daisie Knoll, Yuna Sun,
Maya Thornton
MO: Ruby Ackermann, Marina Benson, Avalee Flores, Juliana
King, Jonathan Dean Roberto King de Paz, Shelby Lombardo,
Rehema Oyugi, Lawton Satterwhite, Claire Xiao
MS: Ella Boykin, Trevor Philips, Robert Luke Schilling,
Lilly Lauren Shannon
NC: Sumeyye Ates, Jordan Baker, Arianna Bhaskar, Omer Deniz
Demirci, Ruthwik Dhama, Rex Dover, Vivian Funderburk, Jessica
Gozali, Sia Gullapalli, Ada Helms, Manasi Iyer, Ashley Ji,
Siena Lewis, Rocky Lutz, Marlena Marrelli, Anish
Thirupaiahgari Meruva, Rohnish Panwar, Rian Patel, Delaney
Santoro, Vikram Thakral, Parker Townsend, Pramithi Upadhya,
Seehe Veera, Asya Yuksekkaya
NH: Lauren Berning, Cecilia Bihari, Alex Chen, Lillian
Lybrand
NJ: Jayden Altamura, Varish Ananth, Florianne Arnado,
Isabella Aschettino, Amogh Basker, Nicholas Billows, Ethan
Cha, Chloe Chen, Rebecca Cooper, Alyssa Marie Delos Santos,
Esha Desai, Noah Eichert, Noor Fatima, Rhea Fernando, Myra
Gupta, Nazim Kaban, Jishnu Kalaivan, Dohee Lee, Ezra Lerman,
Swayum Mehta, Swastik Nanda, Haktan Ozyildiz, Danny Paik,
Aabha Paranjpe, Isabella Addison Perrone, Alexander Poon,
Tulika Punia, Rohan Raghu, Alisha Redlich, Rami Rifi, Blake
Robinovitz, Akshaj Sama, Sidharth Sandeep, Umang Sharma,
Goldie Stein, Victor Tse, Oluwasorefunmi Wale-Akinrinde,
Elizabeth Wang, Eunseo Whaong, Levent Yildiz
NV: Leighton Bekhor, Matthew Caliboso, John Fitta Denman,
Chloe Kim, Mark Moonie, Gennavieve Nakhle, Lily Nethercott,
Rehan Pervaiz, Sachin Reddy, Claire Song, Idin Toussimehr
NY: Nagi Aitbayeva, J'Viona Baker, Marissa Banson, Ryan
Dedianous, Azalea Dietz, Jasmine Eyal, Annie Falcone, Arihunt
Garg, Skylar Holliday, Salahaldeen Ibrahim, Sumaya Jashim,
Paige Josling, Hayden Ko, Crystal Lau, Sofia Leder, Ana Marie
Loter, Daniela Luci, Euan Nathan, Nikhil Rughwani, Julia
Senders, Andrew Sion, Madeline Sotomayor, Chase Timberger,
Eyal Traeger, Sophie Wang
OH: Chenuli Attanayake, Abinav Dinesh, Prisha Echuri, Ellie
Falb, Ayesha Faruki, Aarush Gupta, Kira Iovenko, Sanya Joshi,
Bridget Kirwin, Aryan Niranjan, Vainavi Ravi, Aviraj Soin,
Angela Tang
OK: Krishna Bhadriraju, Clark Bigler, Maryanna Ebert, Owen
Lavigne, Hannah Linsenmeyer
OR: Clara An, Lisa Chien, Ishita Grandhi, Olivia Lu, Naomi
Robinson, Ronav Sharma, Yeda Song
PA: Logan Bohrer, Riley Bohrer, Joshua Chen, Dylan Fearing,
Matilda Gebhardt, Ryan Gringeri, Amir Hasan, Sean Jeon,
Rachel Kim, Junah Lee, Nathaniel Otto, Claire Titus, Emel
Turkmen, Jingxuan Wang, Ryan Wen, Andy Wu
PR: Siona Pramoda
RI: Justin Kuo
SC: Savannah Boyes, Caroline Brandes, Tori Li, Molly
Scribner, Jordan Whitesides
TN: Roselyn Joseph, Hudson McCall, Cooper Mears, Allie
Paschall, Tyler Sparks
TX: Madam Abdelrasoul, Zeynep Aydogdu, Samyukth Ayyar,
Sneha Bondalapati, Dylan Bosita, Shanti Buchanan Bolanos,
Sashi Bui, Alex Cai, Shri Chada, Dhruv Chandak, Navya Chandu,
Erin Choi, Sunwoo Choi, Alden Comes, Alissa Feng, Yash Nirmal
Ganatra, Edwin Gao, Ethan Gao, Divya Gouni, Ajay Gundlapalli,
Brice Halfman, Serene Han, Ahyan Hassan, Clayton Hicks, Neel
Hiremath, Padma Jaghannaathan, Andrea Johnson, Austin Jones,
Kristin Joseph, Vedanth Kashyap, Siva Khande, Anika
Krishnamoorthy, Tahir Kuscu, Willow Lemanski, Jeffrey Liu,
Ciara Lyon, James Joseph Mahon VI, Sambith Manohar-Reddy,
Matthew Martinelli, Esra Marulcu, Kerrin McDevitt, Shanttal
Miller, Maureen Min, Sukhadeva Mitta, Clara Grace Moore,
Samuel Mun, Sonia Naidu, Neil Narvenkar, Delainie Nichols,
Brynley ORourke, Zayaan Rab, Aathmika Raj, Rishab Randeep,
Akshara Reddy, Riya Sajan, Molly Patricia Schmid, Beyli
Shalin Shah, Saanavi Shah, Neha Sharma, Isabella Sim, Olivia
Sim, Rahul Singhal, Arnav Sivakumar, Ashley Song, Trevor
Suggs, Jay Tamirisa, Manveer Singh Tib, Reilly Tol, Oliver
Tsao, Halil Tunc, Holly Vessa, Elise Wakefield, Emily Wang,
Piper Whittenburg, Dev Satvik Yadlapalli, Anna Yi, Allen
Zhang, Luke de Waal, Timothy de Waal
UT: Elmira Aziyeva, Zachary Judkins, Ziling Li, Sejid
Muhic, Jonah Wood
VA: Nalan Beyazoglu, Amna Bibi, Sanaya Bothra, Emily
Christina Brown, Adhiraj Chhoda, Gavin Couling, Derin
Goktepe, Colleen Harrington, Scott Heilig-Roby, Eshan Iyer,
Vedanth Iyer, Dhruv Jagasia, Matthew Kao, William Kennedy,
Rushil Kukreja, Jonathan Li, Yousef Malik, Zarnishan
Mirzalizade, Nikhilesh Narendran, Velan Natarajan, Elif
Okandan, Neya Ramvel, Karan Sadiora, Luca Sanchez, Dorothy
Rose Shirley, Brandon Skaredoff, Jonathon Slegar, Anya
Thakker, Rhea Thakker, Numan Top, Elijah Wilson, Arthur Wu
VT: William Cunningham
WA: Ye Chan Ameling, Marjorie Bunch, Logan Burkard, Cody
Edwards, Maria Fletcher, Colton Hong, Channing Huang, Kiyan
Kamran, Steven Kim, Scarlett Kinville, Ethan Lee, Angelina
Lu, Kaela McLachlan, Devin Sharma, Callie Wilkinson, Meryem
Yalcin, William Yoon, Seoyoung Yun
WI: Jovan Joseph, Jacob Lindsay
WY: Max Andersen, Deanna Davis, Reagan DeBall, Presley
Frink, Kami Harris, Sam Harshberger, Kayleigh Hood, Ellese
Klaassen, Hattie Lynn Lerwick, Joseph Lucero, Olivia
Reynolds, Carly Robertson, Slade Taylor, Jillian Trimble,
Tyler Trimble, Bella Nicole Yoder
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