The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation takes great pleasure in announcing the Finalists for the 2015 Website Design Competition for High School Girls. This year’s theme is “Food! Glorious food!”

This year 139 teams from 30 Michigan high schools enrolled in the contest’s two divisions: Beginner and Advanced. Contestants could enter individually or with one other team member.

An incredible amount of talent was on display for MCWT’s 75 First Round judges, who are technology professionals from Ford Motor, GM, Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles, Fast Switch, Google, Compuware, Cisco, Mercedes Benz Financial Services, J. Edward Training Group, Macomb Community College, Altair, Ciber, City of Livonia, Comerica, Davenport University, Epsilon, HP, Ideal Record Solutions, Jacobs Engineering, Learning Care Group, Orchid Orthopedic Solutions, State of Michigan, Tyler Brock Media, Group Associates, JDM Consulting, Microsoft, MEEMIC Insurance, Dynatrace, Syntel, Magnetic, Quicken Loans, and Web Savvy Marketing.

The teachers should be very proud of all that their students have accomplished. The contestants should be even more proud of the impressive amount of talent they possess.

Finals Day of the competition is Saturday, December 5, at Blue Care Network in Southfield. The Advanced Division finalists will present their websites one at a time to the panel of distinguished Finals Day judges. The Beginner Division finalists will also attend Finals Day, where they will be honored and the winners will be announced. The finalists will be contacted with further information. Teachers, family of the finalists, first round judges, and MCWT board members will be invited as well. FINALISTS WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL SHORTLY REGARDING THEIR INSTRUCTIONS FOR DEC. 5.

In each division, monetary awards ranging from $50 up to $750 will be given to the top six finishers in each division. The remaining finalists will receive non-monetary prizes. All contestants, whether or not they made the finals, will receive Certificates of Participation from MCWT Foundation.

Below are the 12 teams of Advanced Division finalists in no particular order.

Sontia Stewart	Fitzgerald High School
Cristen Sunga and Kathryn Chess	Lakeview High School
Caitlin Beirne and Olivianne James	Lake Shore High School
Christina Li	Utica Center for Math, Science, and Technology
Shreya Mullapudi	Farmington High School
Jasmine Pearson	Plymouth High School
Jillian Ritchey	Clarkston High School
Mackenzie Johnson	Lake Shore High School
Isabella Spanberger and Sarah Yaw	Walled Lake Northern
Sarah Graves	Fredrick Pankow Center
Varmitha Hullathy	International Academy East
Sadia Jiban and Maliha Latif	Fitzgerald High School

Below are the 12 teams of Beginner Division finalists in no particular order. 

Grace Likins and Rhiannon Chisholm	Lake Shore High School
Manisha Solipuram	Walled Lake Central High
Hannah Watkins	Lake Shore High School
Summer Nguyen	International Academy East
Caroline Scheuing	Canton High School
Afsana Rahman	Fitzgerald High School
Kate Bartley	Hartland High School
Claudia Chen	Salem High School
Madison Werthmann	Lake Shore High School
Lina Jebara	Crestwood High School
Joselyn Schlosser	Canton High School
Ava Wood	Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center
Nicole Kuang	Canton High School

Dress up.  Look professional. Have your visual/handout ready.