Cranbrook Team Qualifies for VEX Robotics World Championship
All twelve of Cranbrook Schools’ VRC robotics teams qualified for the Michigan State Championship held February 23 at Michigan State University. Cranbrook teams turned in impressive results, including qualifying for the VCR World Championship in Louisville Kentucky.
Team members attending the VEX Michigan High School State Championship at MSU:
39A: Nikhil Vasan, Emerson Li, Quoc Huynh
39C: Jiahang Liu, Jason He, Jerry Chen, Mike Cai, Russell Day, David Du, Luke Lin
39G: Askari Husaini, Lily Hu, Charles Huang, Roan Haines, Larrance Xing, Isabella Stojanov, Ian Chang
39H: Garret Shen, William Wang, Shane Ampaanpenrot, Daniel Nguyen, Kennedy McCarthy, Henry Nguyen, Melvin Dinh, Jacob Um
39J: Emma Block, Subashri Ramesh, Ilina Adhikari, Aakash Bharat, Safura Syed, Donovan Quinn, Ian Smith
39K: Aishwarya Kannan, Ben Walter, Maxwell Tu, David Kwon
39P: Daniel Niculescu, Jagdeesh Natesan, Derek Luo, Ethan Li
39R: Mikul Saravanan, Sujay Maddireddy, Saloni Naik, Sylee Acharya, Ben Hatto, Angela Zuo, Justin Song
39W: Maryam Khan, Ishu Kupadia, Nikita Shishu, Sara Ahmed, Sara Kofman, Su Kyung Lee
39X: Saaim Khan, Peter Papapolymerou, Avaneesh Prasad, Paul Yang, Ryan Blum, Nishant Shishu, Tommy Wyniemko
39Y: Oliver Ye, Hyunsoo Ryu, Olivia Li, Daniel Zhang, Ken Zhu, Derek Ye, Joey Guan, Ashley Cong, Jacky Tu
39Z: Kyrylo Kalashnikov, Tony Cao, Willie Chiu, Adil Toktassyn
Of the 243 VRC High School teams competing across the State this year, 80 teams earned an invitation to this year’s State Championship. Twelve of those teams were from Cranbrook!
Five Cranbrook Teams (39A, 39K, 39J, 39R, 39Y) advanced to the divisional quarter finals.
Three Cranbrook Teams (39A, 39J, 39Y) advanced to the divisional semi-finals.
One Cranbrook teams (39A) advanced to the divisional finals earning an invitation to the VEX robotics World Championship in Louisville Kentucky in April!
Congratulations to World Qualifying Team 39A and good luck in Louisville!