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CPS Faculty and Staff Pinewood Derby 2-12-22

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Source
YouTube / CPS Video
Date
2022-02-12
Location
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT
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2,881 words · about 17 min
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2026-06-05

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001welcome everyone to the second annual chester public school i wish the best of luck to all of our racers today before we get started i want to take a moment to thank um the pack 114 representatives helping us out to run the derby uh we have our sharma on our scoring we have sean henry matt planeta and dan lebowski helping us out to make sure a smooth and fun race i also want to thank mike salamini who has helped us out with videotaping and streaming this live so hopefully next year we'll be back in persons of it all this against each other together final thank you i want to give out to cigna um as a part of their health and wellness initiative for cheshire public schools they donated some additional items that are going

002to go home with our winners today so we're going to have our best fastest overall car our best looking car and our slowest car and as the day goes on we'll talk a little bit more about those awards as the day goes on i also want to also recommend you pay attention to what's going on because some of our racers are automatically going to be entered in a raffle for one of 10 sigma mugs that will announce as the day goes on but to begin i want to first read off our teams let you know how the race works and we'll go from there a pinewood derby car is a boxed car out of a blocking wood that comes with four wheels and four axes teams were given the cars about four weeks ago to

003put their design and their ideas together and on the tech side of churchill public schools it's kind of funny how many people googled how to make the fastest google or private derby car or how to meet marlene solano or how to have a car that beats vin nanciana so there's some tough competition today we have representatives from every single school inside of cheshire public schools as well as most of our departments so i want to go through our racing for today we're going to have four heats of six cars those individuals will be able to run on all the lanes and will be running against all the individuals in their heats the winners of those heats are then going to go head to head in our final race to determine the fastest car in cheshire

004public schools in heat one we have representing chapman's elementary school holly hop wheels as car number from dad the oh days in car number eight doolittle is represented by the ram team these are our reading and math specialists across the elementary also from highland is the highland covic busters principal jeffrey and all this team that's been working tirelessly over the last two years have a car racing together for number 13 from norton the la librarian uh carol mcelroy is representing norton elementary school from central office mach 5 a new recruit this year erica biagetti from food services they'll be turning out heat number one and racing head-to-head in heat number two we have a board member representing this year uh the roland rosen burgers are gonna be car number 25 bus depot representative ben nye

005laters is car number seven from cheshire high school the science department uh meg yeager and the pink eraser also from chs we have representatives from the chspe health department in car number two from darcy elementary school they'll be representing us in heat two with car number 20 and hubbeston will be running going for gold card number 23 in e2 we heat three we have principal mike woods in car number 27 from central office vin massiana is representing us with car number three uh also from central office carol jacinski uh lisa wall from the i.t department and cheshire high school the rjm speeders will be car number 17. also from treasure high school the russo's putting together a car for number 24 will be our third heat of the day and our final heat of competitors

006in heat number four will represent heather santi from central office marlene stellato our returning champion the crafty canals from central office our new leader mark brousseau from technology and our representatives from dodd and chs are school resource officers we'll have car number 14. uh mark russoby 21 the crafty canals are 15. marlene solano is number 11 and heather sandy is number five so thank you all for joining thank you for all your support and we'll set up our track and get the race going very soon all right great sirs welcome back uh again we let our racers go up to 12 ounces so there's gonna be some fast cars coming through today we'll be reading off the cars as they get onto the track and you'll be able to see the winners on the screen

007as time will come for group one our first race today round one is car number 12 holly hopkins lady b is card number 10 the ryan team our greeting mass specialist lane c is going to have carter before the lobby and lane d is going to have card number eights the old days good luck to all of our racers today let's get things started [Applause] ranting with speed averaging that [Music] team win all right keep three for the cps sixth annual category derby round one race and lane a is car number ten lane b is car four lane c cartel and 13. right now we have a three-way tryout in first place between holly hopkins the ram team and my [Music] number four [Applause] busters 22. [Applause] five [Music] of our competition so mock five

008hold off on another all right for group one of the ces founder we're now entering the rotten team competition and making sure that everyone needs to look at each car and then everyone gets the stride on each of the ladies as best as for heat possible we'll have car number lane b will be car 13 lane c will be car 10 and limit d will be car number eight not just yet ranting hurt in second place behind knock five car 10. so mach 5 leading scorer 5 followed right behind by the grand team the score of 7 and third place down in 12 holly hopkins so five four feet round two one lane a is car thirteen lane b is part twelve lane c is car 22 and lady d is car four [Applause] five

009okay d car 22. round for group number one currently he has a planning team in first place with a score of eight mach five in second place with the score nine and in third place holly hopkins scores 17. all three racers go into the final round who will be our winner for group number one in lane a car number 22 lane b car 10 lane c car eight and lane d car number 12 for the final heat of group one all right ladies and gentlemen we're going to take a slight break to look at our overall scores and we'll bring out our winners to group number one and give our first radical winners announcement and have a moment to return all right congratulations to our reading and math specialist the winners of group number one

010the rams had an awesome first place finish fall behind by mach 5 from erica beta getting food services and then we had a tie for third place holly hot wheels and the highland covered busters so i want to take a moment now to also thank again in cigna for their health and wellness campaign with cheshire public schools they donated 10 coaster or 10 bucks excuse me yeti mugs that were going to raffle off to our participants individuals were allowed to enter as a team or as an individual racer so we put all the names into our hat and our first two winners of the yeti mugs are jen buffington from darcy and kim siola from highland congratulations to our racers today we're gonna set up for group number two all right ladies and gentlemen congratulations

011to the reading and math specialist we're now moving on to group number two in atlantic a cars 25 the royal rosenbergers representing the board of education lane b card 19 the elixir blind c car number 20 [Music] is [Music] a eraser all right number three now of course number two in light a car number 19 opinion eraser lane b car tournament darcy lane c car number two c-h-s-p-e-n-l fast don't forget cbs that fact go online and vote for your best looking car for tomorrow at 6 p.m and the north close card number two lay b car 23 lens c car seven and lady d car 20. oh currently in first place number five blank a is going to be car 20 blank beads car 25 lane 6 car 18 d d's car 23. wow all

012right ladies and gentlemen so this ending results were carved as third place car 25's fourth place are 19 to second and car 23 is first our fifth heat card two's third part is going to be three in this first fourth and power 25. [Applause] going for gold now we're going to round two for group two [Music] car 19 and lay d carbon of 7. [Applause] darcy keep two of round two in length a car sediment plane b car tweeting blank c car two and in lane d car 19. [Music] two again number four hey now we're going to do heat number four is going to be car 20 in lane a lane b is going to be carnival 7. length c is car 25 and length d is going to be 23. so the lane

013navy of car 20 lane b we have a car seven lane c we have part 25 in lane d we have car number 23. so [Music] car 23 and then let me d car number 20. going into the final race blank eggs car 23 line of bds car 19 line c's car 7 and lane d's car thank 25. all right ladies and gentlemen we're going to take a quick break we'll double check those races between keeps four and five power numbers all right ladies and gentlemen we checked our map looking at that slight delay in the computer we went back to look at our numbers our winner is going for gold from hummuston at this time we're gonna announce our second two yeti mug winners from the ram team mary bruzik and from the i.t

014representing central office lisa wall you guys are a second yeti tumbler winners we're going to put together group 3 and we'll come back momentarily all right ladies and gentlemen we've got some great competition going so far again our winner for group one was reading and math specialist team going for gold was our group two winner now to go into group number three starting week one group one in lane a mike woods car number 27. lane b is car number nine cara josenski lightning city is car 17 the rjn speed readers because of high car number school the maserati good luck for our group three racers number three today is going to be car number three and maserati seems to keep the speed into the second heat lane car number six lisa ball lane c cars

01524 the russo's and in lane d card number nine errol system so welcome number 26. oh key number four carter 26 in lane head lane beads could be part 24 lane cds car three 17. number five [Music] is 24. [Applause] again all right three round one the final heat number six in lane a is car 24 lady b's car three lane c is car 26 and lane d is cars [Applause] undefeated all right starting round two heat number one in lane hey is car 27 lenny b is car 26 lane c is car nine and lane d is card number three okay the lady b will have a car 17. lenny c will have a car number 26 and lane d will have a car nearby boston number three 26. down six lenny b car

01627 lane c car 24 and lady dv car 17. all right number five lane a car 17 lane b [Music] is still in first place followed by pharaoh and mike woods in third [Applause] oh all right for group three our final key big massive is gonna be a tough car to be going into the final round in lane day and car 24 lane b car nine lane c car three and lane d car 27. [Applause] all right ladies and gentlemen you all right undefeated in that last race the win goes to vin massiana and lasserati for our third grouping now for the yeti tumblers uh we pulled randomly out of our hat from our competitors and our next two winners are erica biagetti of food services and holly skating rusik from chapman congratulations to those

017winners we'll reach out to all of our mug winners later this week to get your yeti mugs now on to the final grouping of the day our returning champion marlene solano will be going head-to-head against heather santee the crafty canals mark brousseau and the school resource officers get that restarted momentarily all right ladies and gentlemen this is we've got five competitors in group four to begin with the school resource officer with flashlights car number 14 and in lane d you're returning championship arnis let's start with first race [Music] canals do you 11. [Music] the school resource officers so all right ladies and gentlemen keep number four elaine hayes cartoon one lane b is blades it's amazing how that police car was chasing all those three others to the finish line all right for our last

018piece of group four round one in elaine hayes park 14 playing b's carl edith lane c car 21 and lane d car 5. [Music] i don't think there's any amount of dirty supplies available in that 20 mile radius of check for public schools two d1 car number five car 21 car 11 and car 14. again cov car 15 and lane d will be car number five again key number three in lane a car 15 lane b car number five lane c car 21 and then lady d car 11. currently in first place with the score of seven months second place header safety distributor 13 and tiger clerg martin crafty canals 15. from is uh i'm saying all right ladies and gentlemen who's our fourth grouping give us a moment to look at how marlene's laws

019are first place and we'll get back to momentarily all right ladies and gentlemen some incredible speed on that last run our standout winner returning champion marlene solano we may have to look at our rulebook to look at how many wins you're allowed before you take it out of a competition for at least a year but i also want to announce our next two tumblr winners uh pulling from the hat we have our randomly selected stephanie loomer from highland a part of our covid buster team and mark brousseau from central office with technology there are our next two winners for the code or the tumblers from cigna now the races of the century we have two races to go ladies and gentlemen we're going to have the slowest competition where we pulled the lowest scorers from

020the four groupings we'll have the o'days car number eight the rosenbergs car number 25 the school resource officers number 14 and lisa wall number 26 you are gonna be racing for the slowest car of the day but what we didn't tell you just yet is there some amazing prizes for our winners today for our fastest car the winner of the entire cps race will get something fast and speedy you will be winning not only the trophy in the bragging rights but also a ninja blender something as speeding fast as possible for our best looking winner we'll table all the votes out and tomorrow night we'll look to see who are best looking and how do you keep best looking not only will you get a trophy you will also be winning a pro health toothbrush

021and finally for our slowest winners we also have a trophy but more importantly the winner of the slowest car will also win a fitbit provided by cheshire public schools so we're going to make our brackets now for the slowest and the fastest race and we'll be back momentarily all right ladies and gentlemen welcome back here's our final competitions our first race is the slowest cars of the day we have four competitors going head-to-head to see who could lose every single race and again don't forget who can be the slowest of the day right now 14. multipurpose 26. oh is car number eight molasses coming through all right our second round he won bling a car eights b parts number five blank c car 14 and lane d car in who's 26. out car number eight

022alright 25. so b is car eight lane c is car 25 and lane d's car number 14. all right ladies and gentlemen give us a moment to add up those scores to give you the slow as molasses winners all right that was our longest race today but we have our winner the slowest car from the second annual cheshire public schools pinewood derby are the odes the slows molasses winner and the way to get your speed up you're winning a fitbit from cheshire public schools to get that speed going for next year all right we also have our last two yeti tumbler winners the last two names picked from our random selection from norton elementary carolyn mcelrevey and from cheshire high school kathy sullivan congratulations to those 10 winners today we'll get you guys your yeti

023mugs sometime this week again it was jen buffington from darcy kim siola from highland mary bruzik from doolittle lisa ball from central office erica biagetti from food services polly skating rusik from chapman mark russo from central office stephanie loomer from highland kailyn macaroni from norton and kathy sullivan for chs congratulations to those winners and thank you all for participating now what you've all been waiting for our last and final race of the day for the ninja blender the championship the trophy and all the bragging rights our fastest cars today will compete in the fastest ever second annual pinewood derby for chs welcome back ladies and gentlemen the champions increase some fast fast cars coming across the finish line for all the blessing glory can our new salad maintain and keep her victory from last year

024being chuckled as fast or are the new recruits of the entity and vote for the old hollister come and take blade a car number 10 the rams in lane b car number 11 in bernie salado and lane c car number three the maserati and then d cars 23 going for gold the maserati oh home cameras [Music] lane c car number 10 and lady car number great representation two central office houston and elementary school undefeated is all right number four in lane a car 11 lane b car free lane c car 23 length car 10. again thank you for all participants here we had over 23 cars for today we had additional interviews that couldn't get the cars done in time or didn't name the reason but today 23 competitors of individuals and teams what you

025saw ladies and gentlemen so all right for the second round number one playing a's car 10 lady b is card 23 blade c is card three d's cards good i'm sorry 10. is it possible the word yes head car number three lane b car 11 light c car number 10 lane d carburetor 23. instead of the third annual cps primary next year we're going to call it please enter to beat marley solano all right ladies and gentlemen last race of the day with an overwhelming lead at this point with a high score of only seven undefeated thus far in lane a car number 11 lane b car number 10 letting c car number 23 and length d car number three last race for today that seals the deal we'll take a quick break we'll come

026back with our final results all right once again ladies and gentlemen thank you all for your participation day whether you're an entrant or whether you watch this online again i want to thank ramesh sharma running our computers behind the scene sean henry macklinetta dan lebowski and mike salini for helping us do this virtual event hopefully next year we'll be back in person again congratulations to our winners of the yeti mugs and for our final final race returning champion she'll get the trophy once again congratulations to marlene salado fastest car of the day unbelievable racing thank you all for your support with cheshire public schools we'll see you again next year you

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