The talented aeromodellers of Centre Point School, Katol Road and NKP Salve Academy participated in the Zonal level of Boeing National Aeromodelling Competition held in IIT Powai on 14th & 15th Dec’18.
From among 193 teams from all over India 4 teams were from Centre Point School, Katol Road and NKP Salve Academy. In the zonal level competition 30 teams were short listed for the competitive round.
Two teams of aeromodellers of CPS Katol Road & NKP Salve Academy were among the 30 best teams to compete for the competitive round for zonal winners. The first team included Zaosh Khambata, Akshat Vishwakarma, Chaitanya Patil and Aaryan Vasu. This team won the 2nd prize which included Certificates of Excellence and a cash award of 30,000/-. The team has also qualified for the Finals to be held in April 2019. The second team including Amay Dhanwatay, Nimish Mishra, Dhruv Siriah and Arpeet Patel were awarded certificates of participation and a cash award of 5,000/-.
The other two teams included Sanya Kothari, Vaibhav Thadwani, Satakshi Chopda (CPS Dabha), Yashasvi Pal and Manav Kriplani, Dhruv Chandak, Pranay Golechha and Husain Merchant. This year 2 of the CPS KR teams also participated in the Drone Flying Competition at the IIT Techfest. The aeromodellers included Daksh Ahuja, Jigrr Deshmukh and Burhanuddin Hussain.
The aeromodellers give the credit of their success to Mr. Zubin Khambata, Manager and the Aeromodelling Instructor in CPS, Katol Road & also to Mr. Neeraj Gupta who assisted the teams all along. The students & the instructor expressed their gratitude to the Directors, and Principal of the school for their success.