Maumee Valley Robotics Team Qualifies for Regional Championship
Maumee Valley Robotics Team places fourth in Falcon BEST competition, qualifies for Regional Championship in Fargo, ND. The Maumee Valley Country Day School Robotics Team recently placed fourth in the Falcon BEST Robotics Competition at Bowling Green State University. The team is made up of students from seventh to eleventh grade, and includes both domestic and international students. Phil Paskvan, MVCDS educational technologist, and Kevin Tolles, former faculty, are the team’s coaches. “The MVCDS Hawks Robotics team is about more than just robots,” says Paskvan. "The BEST Robotics competition looks at robotics as a business model for the team to explore.” The team will be competing in the Northern Plains BEST Championship in Fargo, North Dakota, during the first week of December 2015. Six teams from each local competition advance to the regional championship. “All of us are very excited for Fargo, and we’ll be working hard to improve all aspects of our game over the next several weeks,” says Poom Pipatjarasgit ’17, leader of the team.
See attached photo:
Top, left to right
Antonio Zeiter (’18)
Isabel Zeiter (’19)
Samuel Peters (’21)
Oliver Skinner (’21)
Seth Griffiths (’20)
Jonathan Buchanan (’20)
Oliver Yin (’17)
Ben Mihaly (’18)
Poom Pipatjarasgit (’17)
Finn Bamber (’18)
Paradon Pipatjarasgit (’20)
Danny Wainstein (’19)
Evan Heritage (’19)
Floor, left to right
Justin Paskvan (’20)
Mihir Joshi (’20)
Annie Williams (’20)
Loa Cho (’20)
Aditi Vijendra (’20)
Bailey Hannan (’18)
Stefan Radjenovic, holding award (’20)
Hudson Filas (’19)
Kimmy Goewey (’18)
Not pictured:
Coaches, Phil Paskvan and Kevin Tolles
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