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Fairfax County Public Schools recognized 209 students for completing demanding AP Capstone requirements during the 2024-25 school year. Of those students, 187 earned the AP Capstone Diploma and 22 received the AP Seminar and Research Certificate.
The College Board program centers on two year-long courses, AP Seminar and AP Research. Students develop skills in critical thinking, academic research, collaboration, presenting findings and managing long-term projects. Assessments include research papers, multimedia presentations and defenses of students’ conclusions.
Students earn the AP Capstone Diploma by scoring 3 or higher in AP Seminar, AP Research and four other AP exams of their choice. The certificate requires scores of 3 or higher in AP Seminar and AP Research.
AP Capstone Diploma recipients
Centreville High School: Sankalp Agarwal, Kareem Aly, Ethan Brower, Alexander Caravello, Yuri Cho, Esther Choe, Elizabeth Davaadorj, Elena Davis, Alessandro De Stefano, Lauren Eng, Taebeen Han, Nathanael Ho, Milan Jovancevic, Minn Jun, Samuel Jun, Ethan Kim, Kevin Kim, Sean Kim, Nguyen Le, Ella Lee, Hannah Lee, Kaitlyn Lee, Lucy Martin, Dylan May, Seo Yun Noh, Alexander Ra, Ishan Rekhi, Chloe Schwetz, Sudhatri Sharma, William Shi, Daniel Shinnick, Shriya Sigurupati, Atharv Sinha, Alexander Sobol, Victoria Sun, Emily Thomas, Phillip Tran and Jessica Troup.
Chantilly High School: Rufena Alim, Arunima Awula, Neha Baskar, Aarna Bhamidipati, Jacqueline Bullock, Hailey Cheng, Isabella Dilber, Amala Elangovan, Yasmin Engelen, Isabelle Fernandez, Shruthi Gopinath, Vyhika Gourishetty, Shruti Jagan, Rishi Jagarlapudi, Abishek Kanthan, Ayush Katpally, Kyle Li, Abigail Locke, Shruthi Mandava, Ishaan Mantrala, Laksha Muruganandam, Saisree Nagarakanti, Ananya Nissi Peterson, Victoria Raimist, Jishnav Raj, Angel Shah, Aryaman Singh, Veronica Sokolovski, Elizabeth Sun, Arushi Surve, Samanvi Tummala, Anna Tung, Jonathan Wang, Sirichandana Yakkala and Nickolas Zingarelli.
Fairfax High School: Siya Batra, Joshua Lee, Elisa Moon, Carter Nichols, Jennifer Ortega, Dilnur Parhat, Karis Shim, Giselle Shin, Kylie Thich, Caden Truvan and Shubha Udipi.
Lake Braddock Secondary School: Adib Ali, Asees Kaur, Rebecca Weingast and Juna Yi.
Langley High School: Tara Akrami Khasraghi, Arthur Andrle, Dalayna Carr, Gabriela Cid, Arman Fard, Maya Fotuhi, Julie Kinkead, Dhaya Kumaresan, Jayden Lee, Risha Potluri, Charlotte Schroeder, Ethan Smith, Isabella Suma, Rujvi Thakkar, Banyan Tilluma, Jenny Wang, Lillian Weimer and Noah Workie.
Madison High School: Megan Adelberger, Maura Carrigan, Michelle Cerga, Elizabeth Colyar, Madison Foley, Jamie Fraser, Sina Frezghi, Ariyanna Ghala, Taylor Peterson, McKay Pradawong, Angelina Remondino, Caitlin Schweers, Joelle Shen, Katherine Tylecki, Norah Vaudo, Reese Viana, Ramsey Warner and Rebecca Wu.
McLean High School: Emily An, Sophia Chen, Andrew Egorin, Leah Fontaine, Chelsea Gong, Emily Ma, Ryan McKenzie, Charles Murphy, Samuel Peale, Nimera Shanil, Kate Sheehan, Goldie Woods and Sophie Zhang.
Oakton High School: Shreyes Aier, Catherine Allred, Audrey Burns, Brooke Chang, Ashley Chen, Neel Deshmukh, Isabelle Edwards, Tasneem Falah, Sophie Fang, Jovita Ghosh, Joshua Godinez, Nazli Goksoy, Arjun Gowder, Rebecca Griffin, Benjamin Habyarimana, Maryam Hakim, Sofia Harwood, Pranati Kashyap, Zain Kaul, Calvin Kwon, Charlotte Lim, Zewen Liu, Sophia Luo, MargaretNaughton, Riley Nguonly, Diya Palaniappan, Brinda Patel, Siddharth Pubbaraju, Jocelyn Ro, Shreeya Suresh, Anvitha Vemuru, Isabelle Whang, Avery Yang, Xindi Yang and Claire Zhang.
South County High School: Sage Hofmann, Hyeonseo Lee and Kaitlyn Nguyen.
Westfield High School: Akhil Angajala, Anshika Bansal, Manas Bollineni, Veera Chidanandan, Chandresh Duraisamy, Serena Lee, Shreya Pandey, Maria Pekarsky, Kunal Singhal, Claire Tran, Susitna Voduru, Mishal Zaidi.
Woodson High School: Sarah Narragon.
AP Seminar and Research Certificate recipients
Centreville High School: Hope Green, Anar Indraa and Nicholas Venetsanos.
Chantilly High School: Elizabeth Hansen, Vireshma Rampersad and Nidhish Sorate.
Fairfax High School: Yasmine Bouloudene and Therese Root.
Lake Braddock Secondary School: Sanindu Nallaperuma.
Langley High School: Roksana Saadvandi and Madelyn Young.
Madison High School: Tatiana Francois and Nkechinyere Okpokwasili.
Oakton High School: Ella Dennis and Francisca Yonker.
South County High School: Evie Alle, Sophia Baum and Ji Hye Moon.
Westfield High School: Selamawit Demeke, Masiel Guanilo, Zoha Siddiqi and Anjewel Smith.