#b#Robotic Awards#/b#
West Windsor and Plainsboro students from Team Robo Apocalypse achieved top scores at Robotics FIRST Lego League’s Nature’s Fury challenges. More than 200,000 children ages 9 to 16 from more than 70 countries explored storms, quakes, waves, and other natural disasters.
Team members include Om Deshmukh and Arya Sasne, fifth grade students from Village School; Vivek Vajipey and Parth Shastri, fifth grade students at Millstone River School; Vineeth Vajipey, a seventh grade student at Community Middle School; and Maanas Manoj, a sixth grade student at Melvin Kreps Middle School. The team qualified for the state competition to be held this month.
Team IdeAmaze, a group of four fifth graders from Millstone River School, participated in the First Lego League. Team members include Jay Rana, Akhil Paulraj, Saketh Subramanian, and Rajiv Chatterjee. They received the Core Value award for gracious professionalism in the NJ Steinert Slam qualifying event and are now state qualifiers.
#b#Math Awards#/b#
Two teams of students from High School North competed against close to 80 teams from around the country at PUMaC, the Princeton University Mathematics Competition. Both individuals and teams placed.
The A Team placed second in Division A. Team members included Aaron Berger, Ernest Chiu, Andrew Ding, Ben Edelman, Eric He, Brice Huang, Christopher Shao, and Christopher Xue. The team also placed fifth in the Power Round.
Chiu placed ninth on the number theory test and Shao placed ninth on the geometry test. Huang, who placed third on the algebra test, also placed eighth overall.
Students in Division B included Alexander Xue, Steven Chien, Charles Dai, Jasen Zhang, Jeremy Zhang, Viren Sawant, Matthew Pan, and Revanth Gumpu. Xue, who placed sixth on the Division B Number Theory test, was an individual finalist.
“We would like to thank all the team members for their dedication to PUMaC, for working so hard to prepare for the competition, and for making these achievements possible,” says Kelly Wishart, a math teacher and advisor to the Math League at High School North. “This was definitely a very successful year of PUMaC.”
