The Franklin Regional FRobotics team was watching its robot undergo its inspection, one of the last steps before competing at the March 2020 robotics competition in New York — and that was when competition organizers sent everyone home as covid-19 shutdowns began in earnest across the state’s schools. So when
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 2:32 p.m.
| Wednesday, March 3, 2021 2:32 p.m.
One of two Franklin Regional National Science Bowl teams took the top spot at a regional competition in February, and will compete for a national title. The team is, from the left, Darius Colangelo, Atharva Mayekar, Max Wang, Urvish Jain and Praneel Varshney.
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Darius Colangelo, Max Wang, Praneel Varshney, Prerit Yadav, and Urvish Jain pose for a photo following their third-place finish at the 2020 National Science Bowl’s regional competition. Colangelo, Wang, Varshney, Jain and junior Atharva Mayekar won the regional competition in 2021. Yadav was also part of a second 2021 FR team, along with Abhinav Komanduri, Timothy Cao, Joshua Selvakumar and Gary Zhang.