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National Trig-Star Committee Selects Winners of the National Trig-Star
and Teaching Excellence Awards

The National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) is pleased to announce the
recipients of the 2021 Richard E. Lomax National Trig-Star Awards. The Trig-Star
committee met on July 23, 2021 to determine the three top high school students
from the national examinations submitted by state winners. This year there were
twenty state winners submitted.

The Richard E. Lomax National Trig-Star Awards are as follows:

First Place Second Place Third Place
$2,000 $1,000 $500
Rohit Dasanoor Mary Meyer Kendall Sutton
Revere High School Andale High School Liberty Ranch High School
Richfield, Ohio Andale, Kansas Galt, California

The Richard E. Lomax National Teaching Excellence Awards are as follows:

$1,000 $500 $250
Joanne Gilette Janelle Geist Katie Sutton
Revere High School Andale High School Liberty Ranch High School
Richfield, Ohio Andale, Kansas Galt, California

The following is a list of the remaining participants:

Junzheu Jiang, Connecticut Sean Williams, Maine Abby Post, North Dakota
Brandon Dong, Colorado Javid Garcia, Michigan Phong Le, South Carolina
Shakira Cruz Lopez, Delaware Kyle Miller, Montana Ethan Jones, Texas

Kenneth Holdman, Illinois Noah Gersich, Minnesota Nolan Smith, Utah
Davis Trumm, Iowa Daniel Dickey, Missouri Qingyne Li, Vermont
George Barsan, Kentucky Evan Rosenblatt, New Hampshire

EMPIRE STATE SURVEYOR / VOL. 57 • NO 5/ 2021 • SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 7