Technology Students Are Off to the Races

Several students have taken up car-building.

Well, maybe not on par with GM or Ford, but they did build two stock cars to compete in the Gravity Racing Challenge on Saturday, May 19, at Derby Downs in Akron.

Students in Adam Purdy and Scott Kutz’s technology education classes worked for several weeks planning, building, testing and refining their cars. In addition to building the cars, students also designed team t-shirts and banners.

Here are the two Westlake High teams.

Demon Stars: Jake Paul (freshman, driver); Nick Schmidt (freshman, alternate driver); Sam Kelemen (junior, alternate driver); Nathan Greenberg (freshman, starting line pit crew); Andrew Kettel (junior, starting line pit crew); Nick Massa (freshman, starting line pit crew), Steve Novel (junior, starting line pit crew); Arthur Perconti (senior, finish line pit crew); Danny Strodtbeck (junior, finish line pit crew); Anthohy Zappone (senior, finish line pit crew); Matt Zinn (junior, finish line pit crew); Calvin Pozderak (freshman, finish line pit crew).

Screamin' Demons: Paige Rimko (freshman, driver); Nicholas Button (freshman, alternate driver); Nathan Bauer (freshman, alternate driver); Dylan Komorowski (freshman, starting line pit crew); Kartik Sastry (freshman, starting line pit crew); Justin Jazwa (freshman, finish line pit crew); Robert Slater (sophomore, finish line pit crew); Chris Tsuei (sophomore, finish line pit crew).