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December 9, 2024
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At Saturday's final VRC qualifier, Notre Dame Prep's high school and middle school teams win the event's top awards.
Team 3333X, Krrish Patel 11, Evan Tringaj 9, William Platt 9, Caden Staniszewski 9, and Christopher Artinian 9, won the top award for high school, the Excellence Award, at Saturday's VEX Robotics Competition held at Notre Dame Prep. More photos below.
Notre Dame Prep hosted the final qualifier for the state championship Saturday as a total of 39 teams competed in the Blended VEX V5 Robotics Competition HS/MS Region 3 Qualifier.
Jerry Palardy, longtime mentor of NDP's VRC participation, said the event was the last of six competitions in Southeast Michigan for both middle and high school teams.
"Saturday was the grand finale," he said. "The schools that participated included Cranbrook, Notre Dame Prep, Davison, Detroit Country Day, Southfield Christian, Oakland Christian, Imlay City, Shrine and Rochester Hills Christian."
Team 3333T, the Tornado Troopers, Juan Pablo Turrubiartes 8, Steven Carter 8 and David Ma 8 earned the Excellence Award Saturday with their robot. More photos below.
Palardy said both the NDP middle school and highs school teams won the top two awards Saturday.
"NDP earned the Excellence Award for high school and the Excellence Award for middle school," he said.
The full list of awards earned by Notre Dame teams on Saturday are as follows:
High School Excellence Award: Team 3333X "X-treme Bot"
Middle School Excellence Award: Team 3333T "Tornado Troopers"
Tournament Finalists: Team 3333T "Tornado Troope"
Innovate Award: Team 3333W "Power of the Square"
Build Award: Team 3333Y "Wynaut"
Judges Award: Team 3333N "Cyber Crew"
Team 3333A consists of Adit Gill 7, Isaac Gumma 7 and (not pictured - Oliver Jostock 7).
Team 3333M is Joe Calzada-Lopez 9, Sevi Shango 9, Lucas Nannoshi 9 and Fadi Jamil 9. (not pictured, Brandon Bieszki 9, Logan Williamson 9, Nikola Marvukaj 9)
Team 3333S is Sam Tyler 8, Thomas Higdon 8 and Alex Lark 7.
Team 3333W is Brooklyn Haddad 12, Dino Acciavatti 11, Kevin Carter 11, and Alex Chung 10.
Team 3333Y is Graden Grech 8, Armaan Sharma 8, Elijah Scales 9, (not pictured Jack Simon 9)>
Team 3333Z is Vanessa Artinian 9, Sofia Arinez 9 and Brynn Caffrey 12, (not pictured, Sehaj Gill 12).
Team 3333N consisted of Arya Patel 7, Lourdes Francis 7, and Jude Francis 7.
Team 3333D "Drake’s Passage" is Jacob Lei 12, Daniel Quandt 12 and Patrick Riney 11.
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"At Notre Dame Prep, we inspire our students to become the best versions of themselves. We challenge them through an experience of academic excellence, focused on active, project-based learning. We invite them to explore a world of opportunities beyond the classroom. We guide them as they grow in spirituality within a community strong in its Catholic and Marist identity."
Notre Dame Preparatory School is a private, Catholic, independent, coeducational day school located in Oakland County. Notre Dame Preparatory School's upper school enrolls students in grades nine through twelve and has been named one of the nation's best 50 Catholic high schools (Acton Institute) four times since 2005. Notre Dame Prep's middle and lower schools enroll students in pre-kindergarten through grade eight. All three schools are International Baccalaureate "World Schools." NDP is conducted by the Marist Fathers and Brothers and is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States and the National Association of Independent Schools. For more on Notre Dame Preparatory School, visit the school’s home page at www.ndprep.org.
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