Prosper High and Walnut Grove traveled to Austin for the UIL Film State Championship Film Festival in late February. We are so proud to announce that they came up with amazing results.

Walnut Grove - 5th place at State in 5A Traditional Animation - Bob the Blob by Christian Joaquim

Prosper High - 4th place at State in 6A Narrative - What Happened to Us? by Cade Johnson, Dhruvi Tank, Karina Morris, Nathan Phillips, Ryan Zriek, and Trip Breslin starring Gabriella Carolina and William Joseph Truiano.

Prosper High - 3rd place at State in 6A Traditional Animation - 5 Stages of Sandwich by Ruy Liao

Prosper High - State Champion Runner-Up in Traditional Animation - Astaroth by Rocco Spampinato

Prosper High - State Champion Runner-Up in Documentary - Isaac by Trip Breslin

Prosper High - STATE CHAMPION in The Nobility Project - Isaac by Trip Breslin

On March 8, Prosper ISD held our Elementary District Meet. A meet that was intended to be 12 students per event, per grade level after Zone competition for about 200 entries changed when Zone was cancelled due to weather. Instead, the competition involved more than 1300 students competing.

We are so proud of all of our UIL students, coaches, and coordinators.

See the slide show below for all results.

This past weekend, the Prosper FRC Robotics teams 5411 RoboTalons, 9105 TechnoTalons, and 9492 LadyTalons traveled to Plano, TX to compete against 28 other teams from Texas and New Mexico at our first district event for the Reefscape season, which started on January 4, 2025.

For the past 9 weeks, the Talons worked through the entire engineering design process to create an advanced control system from scratch! Unlike most teams in Texas, not only did we build just one robot but THREE! At the end of the day, the students achieved something we have never done before, win a district event, not once but TWICE! It was a long weekend full of qualification matches which ended with all three of our teams qualifying for the playoffs. At the end, both the RoboTalons and TechnoTalons formed an alliance with one another and earned their spot in the final match against top teams who have competed and won at the international level. At the end of the day, the Talons' passion, hard work, and teamwork gave them the power to defeat these top teams, winning the whole competition with the highest score in the playoffs!

But FRC is not just about building spectacular robots, it's all about using robots to build amazing leaders and advocates for STEM. Not only did our robots come on top, so did our awards teams with the RoboTalons winning the Engineering Inspiration Award, which is the second most prestigious award any team is given. It encompasses the team's efforts to be true ambassadors to FIRST's mission of spreading the passion of STEM to our communities. The following students qualified to interview for this award at the State competition in Houston, TX on Apr. 2-5, 2025:

Anshul Ohja (PHS)

Pranav Subramanian (PHS)

Kevin Koshy (RHHS)

The TechnoTalons received their first ever Safety Award, exemplifying top notch safety practices while in the pits. The following student is 9105's Safety Captain:

Emmett Creedon (PHS)

They also won their first ever award, the Creativity Award, sponsored by Rockwell Automation. This award celebrates creativity that enhances strategy of play and was intentionally designed and not discovered. The following students spent all of Saturday, interviewing with several judges, earning their team this award:

Brayden Mayo (WGHS)

Bosco Qui (PHS)

Puranjay Prashanth (PHS)--Team Captain

Finn Rogers (PHS)

Emmett Creedon (PHS)

Jase Demeterio (WGHS)

Aryan Kammilli (PHS)

Athindra Sathishkumar (WGHS)

Mason Stahl (WGHS)

Luke Phillips (PHS)

James McNulty (WGHS)

We had 6 Dean's List semi-finalists this year. The Dean's List Award is the most prestigious individual award; the head coach nominates 2 sophomores and/or juniors for their team to be selected as semi-finalists. These students prepared for an in-depth interview with a set of judges. Here are our semi-finalists:

Erin Dolores, Team 9492 (RHHS)

Sherlyn Mathur, Team 9492 (RHHS)

Athindra Sathishkumar, Team 9105 (WGHS)

Aryan Kammilli, Team 9105 (PHS)

Anshul Bompada, Team 5411 (RHHS)

Pranav Subramanian, Team 5411 (PHS)

Of our Dean's List semi-finalists, the following student will be competing at the State competition again all of the other Dean's List Finalists from Texas and New Mexico:

Aryan Kammilli, Team 9105 (PHS)

Our Drive team competed SPECTACULARLY up to the final matching, winning the entire event!

Team 5411 RoboTalons:

Driver: Isaac Lee (PHS)

Operator: Armaan Kakkar (RHHS)

Team 9105 TechnoTalons:

Driver: James McNulty (WGHS)

Operator: Luke Phillips (PHS)

Drive Coach: Puranjay Prashanth (PHS)

Team 9492 LadyTalons:

Driver: Jocelyn Li (RHHS)

Operator: Ansley Duffy (RHHS)

March 26-27 - One Act Play District Meets for 5A at RHHS and 6A at Plano West

March 28-29 - High School UIL District Academic Meet at Walnut Grove

April 4 - 6 - Robotics State in Houston

April 1 - 6A One Act Play Bi-District at Denton Ryan

April 3- 5A One Act Play Bi-District at Hallsville

April 5 - Middle School UIL District at Walnut Grove

April 5 - High School UIL District Speech Meet at Walnut Grove

April 9 - 6A Area One Act Play at Plano Fine Arts Center

April 12 - 5A Area One Act Play at Frisco Emerson

April 24 - Region One Act Play for 5A at Rock Hill High School & 6A at Walnut Grove High School

April 25 - 26 - UIL Region for 5A & 6A High School at Walnut Grove

May 2 - High School UIL Banquet

May 3 - Middle School UIL Awards

May 16-18 - Speech and Debate NIETOC in Kansas City, MO

May 19-22 - UIL State in Austin

June 3 - UIL Camps Start

June 15-20 - National Speech & Debate Tournament in Des Moines, IA