The McNeil Academic UIL team attended the district competition on March 25 and won first place sweepstakes. Additionally, the Speech and Debate team won first place and the Computer Science team placed first overall. 

Journalism:

News Writing: second place Laura Rivera-Ramos, third place Carter Poore

Feature Writing: second place Nikolas Russell

Editorial Writing: fifth place Shreya Patwardhan

Headline Writing: fifth place Charlie Shanks

Copy Editing: first place Ella Carter

Speech and Debate:

Lincoln Douglas Debate: first place Rohan Sthanu, second place Abhiram Bhupatiraju, third place Anish Mahambare

Policy Debate: first place Manu Yenikapati and Karthik Jayakumnar, second place Nithya Challa and Anshul Gulati, fourth place Shreya Patwardhan and Aditya Patwardhan, fifth place Grace Marshall and Aarsh Shekhar

Persuasive Speaking: third place Anish Mahambare, fourth place Sai Indurti

Informative Speaking: second place Anshul Gulati, third place Merina Joseph

Prose Interpretation: first place Reagan Moore, second place Erin Simpson, fourth place Jason Bui

Poetry Interpretation: second place Rylee Montgomery, fourth place Maddie Cregar, sixth place Wyatt Counts

Computer Science:

First place team: Uzair Nawaz, Srinivas Vadhiraj, Aditya Patwardhan, Jeremy Moon

First place (tied): Uzair Nawaz, Srinivas Vadhiraj

Third place: Aditya Patwardhan

Calculator Applications: third place Aditya Patwardhan

Mathematics: fifth place Aditya Patwardhan

Number Sense: third place Shreev Goyal

Current Events: fifth place Andre Bui

Literary Criticism: third place Sarah Patti

Ready Writing: fifth place Shreya Aswapathi

Spelling: first place Michael Kolagani

Science:

Science: fifth place Michael Li

Chemistry: second place (tie) Michael Lee, Shreev Goyal

Physics: second place Anikait Gupta