Congratulations to the Patton Middle School students that competed in the First State Lego League Qualifier and were selected to advance to the Champion's Tournament to be held in New Castle, Delaware on February 15, 2014.
Team MADJIK: Patton 8th grader Alex Wang and 7th graders: Jason Doyle, Kessler DuPont-Teevin, Divyan Jain, Zemar Qazi and Mira Zutshi and received the Core Values award for Teamwork. The team is coached by Ravi Jain.
Team CYCLONZ (aka CFP Bots): 7th grader Parik Radhakrishnan and 6th graders: Adarsh Gadagkar, Darshak Gadagkar, Arnav Patel, Rishab Nandan, Liam O'Rourke, Panos Moisiadis and Viraj Joshi received the Core Values award for Gracious Professionalism. The team is coached by Swati Gadagkar, Swati Patel, Yamini Radhakrishnan, Doreen Brady, Kavita and Uday Nandan, Ann O'Rourke and Sudha Joshi.
The team WIZARDS OF CORE VALUES: Sean Sullivan, Sid Panchanadam, Teja Suvarna , Satvik Garapati and TJ Noden from Stetson MS. Judith Noden is the coach of the team.
Also, congratulations to Chaemin Sohn. His team, SUPER STARBOTSs, competed but did not advance to the next round.
And Good news also from UCFSD's First Tech Challenge (FTC) team with the larger metal robots. Team Flaming Phoenix from Patton and their alliance partners came in 3rd overall at the rookie qualifier this past weekend in Pottstown and the team won the Motivate Award . The team members are: 8th graders Christy Ammon, Austin Hwa, CJ McClure, Jonathan Nguyen, Dev Singh, KC Simmons and 6th grader Thomas McClure. The mentors are Luci & Chuck McClure, Steve Hwa, Chris Simmons and a retired engineer from West Chester, Mark Morun.
All the robotics teams are doing a terrific job of promoting STEM and the qualities of sportsmanship, teamwork and perseverance!
