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Submitted by Cedar Hill Prep School.
Cedar Hill Preparatory School students won a local solar car competition, and also achieved high scores on the National Spanish Exam.
A group of Cedar Hill 8th Graders competed in the Solar Jam competition in Princeton on May 14, part of the Junior Solar Sprints program sponsored by PSEG and organized by OASIS (Organizing Action on Sustainability in Schools), a local non-profit school consortium. The program is a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) competition that engages students to design, build and race solar-powered model cars.
After months of building, testing and experimentation, students compete in five divisional races for the fastest, most innovative and best-engineered vehicles. The winners from these division races go on to compete against the best of the best at the Inter-County Final.
Cedar Hill Prep School won all three prizes in their division races at Princeton:
- 1st Prize – Elaine Chen, Megha Thomas and Simone Thompson
- 2nd Prize – Ashna Kelkar, Sarah Abraham and Kathryn Litkowski
- 3rd Prize – Aarthi Venkata, Chahat Mittal, Shreya Krishna and Shwetha Rajagopalan
The First Place winners will be participating in the Regional Inter County Final on May 23 at Ridgedale Middle School, Florham Park.
At the beginning of April, all Cedar Hill Prep Spanish students in grades 6 to 8 took the National Spanish Exam. The top three categories and winners are:
Gold Medal Recipient:
Vyomini Vakil
Silver medal recipients:
Arjun Agrawal
Kathryn Lytkowski
Megha Thomas
Bronze Medal Recipients:
Nitasha Gupta
Chloe Gocher
Aarthi Venkata
