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January 23, 2017
Granbury High School teams are advancing to
national competition in the F1 in Schools competition after winning the top
three places among fifteen teams at the Texas regional contest on January 21,
2017, at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin.
Winning first place was Precision Racing with
members Caden Baker, Stockton Berryman, Joslyn Cavitt, and Chris McKelvain. The squad broke the one-second barrier twice
with times of .993 and .998 – something only done by four teams in the world
since the competition began eleven years ago.
Precision also earned awards for best engineered car, fastest car,
innovative thinking, research and development, as well as sponsorship and
marketing.
In second place was Atlas Racing with students Kyle
Beck, Ashley Boyd, Maxwell Call, Kasey Ludwig, Jack Miller, and Jackson
Winters. Titan Racing won third with
members Tucker Cole, Michael Horne, Cameron Loveless, Nautica Owens, and Caleb
Wood.
“I am extremely proud of our three team and all the new members we
have in the F1 program,” commented coach Todd Gibson. “Our Precision Racing team has something that
only three other teams in the world have ever done by breaking the one-second
barrier.”
In
2015, Affinity won the national championship and advanced to the world finals
held in Singapore. A year earlier, the
team won second place at nationals and traveled to Abu Dhabi. A GHS squad also competed at the world finals
in 2013, when the United States hosted the contest in Austin, which will also
hold the 2017 national contest on June 8-10.
F1 in
Schools is a multi-disciplinary challenge in which teams of students aged 9 to
19 deploy CAD/CAM software to collaborate, design, analyze, manufacture, test,
and then race miniature gas-powered balsa wood F1 cars. The challenge inspires students to use
technology to learn about physics, aerodynamics, design, manufacture, branding,
graphics, sponsorship, marketing, leadership/teamwork, media skills and
financial strategy, and apply them in a practical, imaginative, competitive and
exciting way.
“The
students are already preparing for the national finals by tweaking original
designs and taking judges’ suggestions for their competition components,”
Gibson commented. “I expect great things
at the national event when we travel back to Austin.”
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