Congratulations to the 325 young Americans across the nation that earned the 2016 Congressional Award Gold Medal. These individuals were recognized with Congress’ most coveted award for youth civilians at the annual Gold Medal Ceremony and Events in Washington, D.C. on June 16, 2016.
The achievements of the 2016 Gold Medalists has been recognized by the Senate Majority Leader in the Congressional Record.
Alabama’s 7th Congressional District Arizona Arizona’s 5th Congressional District Arizona’s 9th Congressional District Army Post Office Gabriel Cutler California California’s 5th Congressional District California’s 7th Congressional District California’s 11th Congressional District California’s 12th Congressional District California’s 17th Congressional District California’s 18th Congressional District California’s 22nd Congressional District California’s 24th Congressional District California’s 26th Congressional District California’s 27th Congressional District California’s 28th Congressional District California’s 30th Congressional District California’s 31st Congressional District California’s 33rd Congressional District California’s 34th Congressional District California’s 39th Congressional District California’s 45th Congressional District California’s 47th Congressional District California’s 49th Congressional District California’s 52nd Congressional District Colorado Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District Colorado’s 6th Congressional District Connecticut Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District Florida Florida’s 3rd Congressional District Florida’s 4th Congressional District Florida’s 7th Congressional District Florida’s 8th Congressional District Florida’s 10th Congressional District Florida’s 18th Congressional District Florida’s 15th Congressional District Florida’s 21st Congressional District Florida’s 22nd Congressional District Florida’s 25th Congressional District Florida’s 27th Congressional District Georgia Georgia’s 1st Congressional District Georgia’s 6th Congressional District Georgia’s 9th Congressional District Georgia’s 10th Congressional District Georgia’s 11th Congressional District Hawaii Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District Idaho Idaho’s 1st Congressional District Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District Illinois Illinois’ 1st Congressional District Illinois’ 5th Congressional District Illinois’ 13th Congressional District Indiana Indiana’s 6th Congressional District Kansas Kansas’s 2nd Congressional District Kansas’s 3rd Congressional District Kentucky Kentucky’s 5th Congressional District Kentucky’s 3rd Congressional District Maryland Maryland’s 6th Congressional District Massachusetts Massachusetts’ 2nd Congressional District Massachusetts’ 3rd Congressional District Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District Massachusetts’ 5th Congressional District Massachusetts’ 8th Congressional District Massachusetts’ 9th Congressional District Minnesota Minnesota’s 3rd Congressional District Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District Mississippi Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District Missouri Missouri’s 2nd Congressional District Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District Missouri’s 4th Congressional District Missouri’s 5th Congressional District Missouri’s 6th Congressional District
Sean Villeneuve, Jr.
Adriana Tapia
Jacob Massie
Cydney Kaslar
Catherine Liang
Conor Hassett
California’s 9th Congressional District
Gianna Chien
Dominic Solari
Griffin Ansel
Claire Dashe
Meghan Leong
Ariane Tsai
William Chen
Terence Lee
Benjamin Dotson
Madison DeBruin
Sienna Santer
Brandon Chen
Mark Hanson
George McGuigan
John Monday
Kanhai Shah
Ken Iwane
Carl Xue
William Gutzman
Erica Kang
SungMin Shin
Michael Simic
Bryan Denq
Claire Yeabin Lee
Devin Kanzler
Elizabeth Sams
Brandon Winner
Angela Soyeon Chon
Lynn Kim
Jaewoo Han
Steve Han
Brandon Ho
Sora Jeong
Timothy Joo
Kayla Kang
Charlotte Kim
Jay Kim
Vivian Kim
Joanne Lee
Junsu Lee
Robert Lee
Sarah Lee
Bonnie Lei
Emily Mun
Esther Park
Joo Min Yeo
Jae-Hee Yoo
Sang Shane Yun
So Hee Ki
Jeong Inn Lee
Hannah Park
Karan Shah
Joseph Bastien
Sarah Chen
Kayla Jahangiri
Chris Jiang
Alexandra Lee
Samuel Sugarman
Chelsea Barrows
Karl Garrett
Christina Bear
Lauren Lang
Eric Zhang
Meredith Karle
Duncan Khosla
Allegra Molkenthin
Charlotte Wechsler
Shaleen Thakur
Sonal Thakur
Shyla Blackmon
Jelisa Jackson
Aliya Centner
Safia Centner
Peter Lee
Parker Coye
Evan Albury
Gabriel Coughlin
Richard Coughlin
Laura Drake
Drew Dubauskas
Robert Ferruggia
Madeline Horowitz
Samantha Keating
Cristina Kodadek
Morgan McDonald
Thomas Meiser
Regina Murphy
Noah Pack
Shikha Patel
Austin Paxson
Thomas Pinkham
Mary Powers
Koushal Rao
Hunter Russo
Joseph Russo
Tyler Wilkinson
Jillian Wrieden
Varun Singh
Gabriel Del Campo
Joshua Puchferran
Jade Gibson
Dimitri Godur
Kara McDonough
Julia Abelsky
Elizabeth Harvey
Katie Rose Dionne
Noah Smith
Billy McGahan
Kathleen Stueve
Elyssa Turnbull
Cheyenne Quilter
Eric Summers
Kelly Turney
Sarah Close
Christian Cooper
Sarah Stephen
Maddy Peticolas
Robert James (RJ) Huber
Caroline Luehrmann
Carissa McAfee
Tiffany Dattel
Jared Gillen
Nikhil Kuppuswamy
Megan Nalamachu
Ryan Olson
Melissa Rosenthal
Gavin Zhu
Audrey Moore
Gabrielle Moore
Noah Gillis
Amanda Otten
Ben Otten
Garima Dewan
Mahima Dewan
Lynda Loucif
Rachel Steadman
Lillian Bermel
Sophia Duplin
Catherine Upton
Elizabeth Monger
Megan Selby
Samuel Chestna
Justin Conner
Emily Staunton
Christian Kunau
David Kunau
Benjamin Baker
Hillary Burgess
Molly Chamblee
Karynton Nicole Duke
Dee-Ivy Franklin
John “JJ” Hitt
Marisa Laudadio
Katherine Penney
Katherine Alesa Taylor
David Huff
Meghana Bharadwaj
Nicholas Kahan
Olivia Long
Kaitlynn Allen
Joel Ian Moss
Edayla Talley
Kristin Walther
Emily Gustafson
Amelia Smith
Madison Grooms
Montana’s At-Large Congressional District Nebraska Nebraska’s 1st Congressional District Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District New Hampshire New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District New Jersey New Jersey’s 1st Congressional District New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District New Jersey’s 4th Congressional District New Jersey’s 5th Congressional District New Jersey’s 6th Congressional District New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District New Jersey’s 9th Congressional District New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District New York New York’s 3rd Congressional District New York’s 11th Congressional District New York’s 17th Congressional District New York’s 18th Congressional District New York’s 19th Congressional District New York’s 20th Congressional District North Carolina North Carolina’s 5th Congressional District North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District North Carolina’s 10th Congressional District Ohio Ohio’s 1st Congressional District Ohio’s 4th Congressional District Ohio’s 10th Congressional District Ohio’s 11th Congressional District Ohio’s 13th Congressional District Ohio’s 15th Congressional District Oklahoma Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District Pennsylvania Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District Pennsylvania’s 2nd Congressional District Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District Pennsylvania’s 11th Congressional District Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District Tennessee Tennessee’s 1st Congressional District Texas Texas’ 2nd Congressional District Texas’ 5th Congressional District Texas’ 7th Congressional District Texas’ 8th Congressional District Texas’ 17th Congressional District Texas’ 20th Congressional District Texas’ 21st Congressional District Texas’ 22nd Congressional District Texas’ 24th Congressional District Texas’ 26th Congressional District Texas’ 28th Congressional District Texas’ 31st Congressional District Texas’ 32nd Congressional District Vermont Vermont’s At-Large Congressional District Virginia Virginia’s 1st Congressional District Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Virginia’s 8th Congressional District Virginia’s 9th Congressional District Virginia’s 10th Congressional District Virginia’s 11th Congressional District Washington Washington’s 1st Congressional District Washington’s 2nd Congressional District Washington’s 4th Congressional District Washington’s 6th Congressional District Washington’s 9th Congressional District Wisconsin Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District Wyoming Wyoming’s At-Large Congressional District
Emily Berg
Marian Sanchez Romo
Andrew Eisert
Megan Feldmann
Katrina Nesbit
Stephen Baird
Andrew Geldreich
Philip Balas
Alexander Brescia
Alexander Bruman
Paige Crain
Elizabeth Emberger
Amaya Liles
Khushbu Patel
Shannon Renshaw
Andrew Sooy
Alexis Vanaman
Olivia Weldon
Jennifer Farmer
Madeline Farmer
Neharika Pitta
Isaiah Udotong
Christian Boujaoude
Vishvajit Mohan
Harsha Pavuluri
Ruchi Raval
Abhay Sampat
Samay Sampat
Viraj Sampat
Jessica Janneck
Nishi Shah
Trevor Somers
Richard Stelfox
Abigail Campbell
Mary Catherine Greeley
Marissa Grillo
Laura Mondadori
Brian Handen
Winona Guo
Marc Klinger
James Borovilas
Sarah Primiano
Jason Pymento
Thomas Walsh
Madeline Fouts
Cameron Martel
Navkiran Aujla
Stephanie Shum
Edward Moran
Isaac Smith
William Casstevens
Apolinaire Brown
Chloe Harty
Kaitryana Leinbach
Sam Maxwell
Caroline Schauder
Quinn Schneider
Julianna Viveiros
Savannah Bell
William Ruff
Ishan Rola
Hannah Chappell-Dick
Micah Karr
Morgan Karr
Rachana Raghupathy
Elise Radzialowski
Mara Radzialowski
Weston Clark
Nick Schwartz
Gabriela Rueda
Puspa Chamlagai
Ganesh Gurung
Reena Gurung
Shiva Gurung
Ashley Hoyle
Ah Mu Htoo
Mura Htoo
Dhan Karki
Mu Mu
Cing San Nuam
Thayku Paw
Krishna Powdyel
Dhan Tamang
Bawitha Tling
Dhaka Kharel
Katherine Hung
Rachael Eddowes
Katherine Mars
Kyla Martin
Brian Agnew
Cameron Hayes
Ye Eun Kim
Binod Poudel
Madeline Reich
Jared Stevenson
Briana Yarnoff
Swata Alagar
Cindy Hsieh
Ava Lesko
Marsha Girish
Heather Smith
Briana Minter
Lucy Tomforde
Claire Cromley
Frank Masuelli
Colby Janecka
William Ford
Hugo Guerra
John Craig
Gabriela Font
Sohan Gadkari
Alisha Kashyap
Christian Barham
Joseph Beatty
Emily Hall
Andrew Zelewski
Akshay Malhotra
Aleskar Villarreal
Anna Nemec
Travis Purser
Ahmet Selimoglu
Patrick Sharpe
Matthew Dunmire
Lizzy Mothershead
Robert Bishop
James Reed Huston
Rhianna Kalynn Shaheen
Kelsey Barklund
Kameron Mize
Hunter Grace Jernigan
Emma Westerhof-Shultz
Divya Wodon
Naina Wodon
Luke Beasey
Snigdha Madiraju
Samantha Lane
Alyssa La Fleur
Michael Park
Bryan Shin
Christian Pugh
Alexandra Coleman
Gerald Johnson
Christine Chen
Sophie Miller
Daniel Saphiere
Olivia Coon
Noah Schuetz
Sarah Burton
Francesca Hinkle
Ashlynn Johnson
Amelia Rosmarin
Abigail Shockley
Cristian Soles