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       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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