Current Events
March Madness Bracket Contest
March Madness is here again! The contest is open to Valiant employees/subcontractors and immediate family members. To sign up, use this link! This year we will reward the TOP 5 Contenders with Amazon Gift Cards! 1st: $200, 2nd: $100, 3rd: $75, 4th $50, 5th: $25.
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Past Events
Holiday Party
Team Valiant brought the fun to the Holiday Party at Howl at the Moon DC! Check out all the Professional Photos and 360 Degree photo booth.
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Summer Picnic
Thank you for attending the Family Picnic- it was a huge success! View all the photos please go to Kendra's Photography page. Download your favorites with a computer by clicking on a photo and selecting download from the top middle. Or if you are using a mobile device, select a photo and click the download icon on the bottom right. If you have any questions, please contact Kendra.
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Fitness Challenge for Charity (Spring)
Thank you to all those that participated in our Spring 2023 Fitness Challenge for Charity. In only 10 days, we were able to achieve 3234 total miles!
- Please give a round of applause for: Richard Adarkwa won Most Bike Miles and Most Combined Miles with a total of 295 miles averaging 29 miles/day! He also won the photo drawing of an additional $5 that will go to his charity, St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital! Kannan Chithiraputhiran won Most Steps with a total of 252 miles averaging 25 miles/day! Jenn Waters won Most Strength minutes with 590 minutes averaging 59 minutes/day!
- Big High fives to Leo Trendowicz, Meredith Gander, Brittany Gload, Kendra Bittle, Seth Pennington, David Foli, Tom Torkildson, Katy Workman, Deb Asetta, Maria Forsyth for such a strong output in all categories!
- Please fill out this 2-minute Survey so we can continue to improve upon this event
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Chess Tournament
The Valiant Chess Tournament has concluded and we had an epic run by Elliott Hirzel and Tayo Tychus who won every match throughout the tournament and then played each other in the Finals and Tayo won. And then Tayo played our Grandmaster, Marcus Bowie, and in an upset Tayo won. Tayo is the 2024 Valiant Chess Tournament Champion and GrandMaster!
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Game of GAmes
Trophy Winners
Leo Trendowicz
EVP, Corporate IT
Game of Games Winner (Year 1)
Chess Champ 2020, Poker Champ 2021, Codenames Team Champ 2021
David Ellis
Senior Archer engineer
Family Feud Champ 2020
Geoff Gregory
Chief Operating Officer
Family Feud Champ 2020
Marcus Bowie
Security Engineer
Mayor of Chess 2020 & 2022 & 2023
Tom Zarycki
Incident REsponse Analyst
Jeopardy Champ 2020, Smartini Hour Team Champ 2022, Poker Champ 2022
Cat Buchanan
EVP, Talent &
Culture Strategy
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Fall 2021
Katy Workman
Technical Recruiter
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Spring 2021
Tim PUTZ
director, Security
Advancement & Operations
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Spring 2021
Brittany Gload
EVP, Strategic Initiatives
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Fall 2021 & Winter 2022 & Fall 2022
Mark Williams
It & QA Support
Codenames Team Champ 2021
Nate Raydo
Government Solutions
Lead
Chess Champ (Novice) 2022
Kannan Chithiraputhiran
Sr. DevSecOps Engineer
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Winter 2022, Fall 2022
Sara Wenke
Culture & Marketing
Manager
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Spring 2022, Smartini Hour Champ Spring 2022 &Fall 2022
Drew Fields
Proposal writer &
Program Specialist
Jeopardy Champ 2021 & 2022
David Foli
Technical SEcurity
Assessor
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ Spring 2022 & Fall 202
Shrikant Agashe
security operations
Manager
Chess Champ 2023
Richard adarkwa
Senior ISSO
Fitness Challenge for Charity Champ
Spring 2023 & Fall 2023
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