Congratulating the 2025 Congressional Award Gold Medalists

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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 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

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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