Father Judge - What's New at Fr. Judge

Robotics Comes to Judge!
Welcome Spirit!

Father Judge has started a Robotics Club! They participated in the US F.I.R.S.T. Regional Competition at Drexel University on March 25 - 27. Back in January they were given a kit of parts and had six weeks to build a robot that would be proficient in playing soccer. ETC, Environmental Tectonics Corp., owned by Bill Mitchell '59, was the primary sponsor to get the project going. Kerri Loux, a mechanical engineer from ETC, was with the group all the way, providing many hours of mentoring the students to complete their task. Science teacher, Michael Fiocco, along with History teacher John Renye supported the students and encouraged their participation.

US F.I.R.S.T, For Inspiration, Recognition, Science, and Technology holds a nation wide competition every year. Judge participated, along with forty-three other teams in the Regional Meeting at Drexel University during the weekend of March 25th to the 27th. Our robot, "SPIRIT" made its debut! The top three teams went to the National Finals.

Mr. Fiocco is gearing up for 2011! The team will be given a kit with instructions to build a new robot. Any students who wish to join the team should contact Mr. Fiocco. Judge is in need of mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and computer experts who would be willing to join our team. We would like to have several mentors so that we can set up a schedule that would be beneficial to the program. We are also looking for corporate sponsorship. If you fit the bill, please contact Mr. Fiocco at Father Judge. For more information about US F.I.R.S.T. -
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Junior Genti Shatri does some electrical work

Here are the "guts" of Spirit

Our major corporate sponsor was ETC, also Comcast and others

Sophomore Ryan Young watches a dry run

Our mentor, ETC's Kerri Loux with Junior Damien Turchi

Spirit in competition at the US F.I.R.S.T. competition at Drexel

Congratulations go to John Corrigan '10 winner of the 2010 Mark Drucker Internship from KYW Newsradio, presented on April 6th.

John and Chris Weidner '10 particpated in the Newstudies student reporter program. Both students participated on six consecutive Saturdays to learn news writing, reporting, ethics and interviewing skills from station managers, editors, reporters, anchors and guest speakers. You may view their on-air reports by clicking kyw1060info.com/newstudies/

Congratulations to senior Chris Weidner who was chosen to represent the Father Judge Class of 2010 in the annual WPVI-TV (6ABC) “Best of the Class” promotion! Chris was chosen from among the top five students after he completed an application that was judged by the school administration. Chris is #2 in his class and a graduate of St. Matthew School. He will be at Drexel University next week filming the television special/commercial. We will let you know when it will air.

Model UN Delegation

The Father Judge Model UN Team took first place at the DeSales University Model UN Competition in Allentown, PA this past weekend. The team finished their regular season undefeated! Now they go to New York for the Annual National Model UN Competition in May.

Pictured with Seamus are: Shawn Gies, Ryan Cross,
Marco Sifoni, Joe Skitek, and Stefano Sifoni

Seamus Boyle '61, Grand Marshall of the Saint Patrick's
Day Parade and Father Judge students who were
altar servers at Saint Patrick's Church.

Kevin Toner '10 is in France!
Kevin and seven students from the Northeast are in France representing the USA for a football game against the French National High School Team. Kevin is in the middle!

Bonjour!!!

We've finally arrived in Paris! It was an unforgettable ride to JFK with hurricane force winds and driving rain and a closed NJ Turnpike. But we were determined to make it and did so with time to spare only to find out that our plane was diverted to Philadelphia! We finally boarded our plane to France and took off around 2:30am (very early Sunday morning). With the time difference in France and the one hour time change in the states, we landed in Paris at 4:00ish. After locating some lost luggage we checked into our hotel and met at the "Hippopotomus" for our welcome dinner, We dined on chicken and steak. It was terrific!

On Monday morning, we took a bus tour of the city of Paris just to get our bearings. We saw the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triumph. This afternoon we survived our first practice. Internet is a bit pricey in the hotel so we have to search out cafes in the area from which to send our emails. We'll try to get one email as often as possible. Au revoir!!!