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May 1, 2015
Pueo Sports Spotlight
Maui Prep continues to be proud of all the Pueo athletes and the hard-work, dedication and hours they commit to practicing and pursuing excellence within their sport. A stand-out, both off the court and on, is freshman, Corey Patton-Lossner, who became Maui Prep's first female MIL tennis champion. She achieved the gold in girls' singles at last weekend's MIL championship in Wailea and will be competing in the HHSAA Championship in Oahu. Way to go, Corey!
Continuing on with the Pueo dominance, Maui Prep's Surf Team makes history. Sophia Johnston (pictured left) took first place in the MIL in bodyboarding and shortboarding, Jessica Kingwell (pictured right) received fourth in bodyboarding as well, and Dante Silva (center) took fourth last weekend at Ho'okipa. Not only did these individuals achieve success, the girls' team became the first sport at Maui Prep to win a team championship!
iPueo Team Gain Vast Experience in Kentucky
Out of the thousands of teams that competed this season, only 105 teams qualified for the VexIQ World Championship event. Maui Prep's students worked hard to be among those teams and our iPueo's final rankings, after a roller coaster of some early nerves, hitting stride mid-competition, then some hard fought last rounds where we earned both our lowest to our highest scores in the final two matches, gave us the following rankings:
Programming Skills / Autonomous - 21st in World Championships
Robotic Operations / Driver Skills - 21st in World Championships
Robot Team Work Skills - 33rd in World Championships
Our goal was to take Maui Prep into the ranking of the top 30 middle schools in the world, so we hit the mark in two judged competitions, but missed by a small margin in the third category. I am proud of their effort, proud of their growth, proud of their accomplishment and proud of their potential as we look to take these 6th and 7th graders into next year's season as 7th and 8th graders. One of the event highlights was the announcement of the new 2016 robotics challenge, along with new hardware and software releases which got the team pumped and creatively talking about next year's robot design. ~Mr. Hazlet
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