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Wheeler Celeritas Racing Team

Back in February we posted about the Wheeler Celeritas F1 Racing Team as it prepared for the national competition. Team member Shashaank Aiyer informed us that he and his colleagues qualified for the F1 in Schools World Competition that’s coming up in November, and will be teaming up with a group from Australia.

F1 in Schools, Shashaank tells us:

” . . . is a multidisciplinary challenge in which teams design, analyze, manufacture, and test miniature F1 cars that are powered by compressed carbon dioxide and raced down a track. We are the successors of AeroFlowRacing, who won the National competition and placed 15th at the World Finals.”

Here’s more about the Wheeler Celeritas Racing Team, which this year is comprised of six seniors. In the photo above from left to right are Mateen Jangda, Chase Waddington, Davis Nilson, Shashaank Aiyer, Sai Rajendrakumar, and Jared Ryley.

Below is from the national competition earlier this year in Austin, Texas.

Wheeler Celeritas Racing Team

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Last summer we told you about the Aeroflow Racing Team from the Wheeler Magnet School as they prepared for an international F1 competition.

Their successor is called the Celeritas Racing Team, and one of their team members, Shashaank Aiyer, got in touch to let us know that they’re prepping for the F1 in Schools National Competition in Austin, Texas from Feb. 20-23.

Shashaank tells us the Celeritas team is comprised of six juniors who’ll be taking part in a comprehensive, multidisciplinary challenge “in which teams design, analyze, manufacture, and test miniature F1 cars that are powered by compressed carbon dioxide and raced down a track.”

The Celeritas team members and their responsibilities are as follows:

Shashaank Aiyer, executive manager and graphic designer;
Chase Waddington, manufacturing engineer;
Jared Ryley, design engineer;
Sai Rajendrakumar, marketing director;
Mateen Jangda, financial manager;
Davis Nilson, resource director and web designer.

Last year’s Wheeler team won the U.S. competition and finished 15th in the global event in Singapore.

Here’s more about what’s coming up in Austin.

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