For the latest news on campus events, please visit TaftSchool.org. , The Varsity A team of Toan Duc Phan, Brian Jang, Adrian Fu, Haroon Khera, Alyssa Chen, Ron Park, Chantal Yuen, and Julie Nam (not pictured), coached by Jim Mooney, was named the Best Overall National First Place Team in the Junior Engineering Technical Society’s (JETS) annual TEAMS competition. Yee-Fun Yin
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By Sam Routhier
JETS Team Takes home National Championship The varsity team of seniors Brian Jang, Toan Duc Phan, Haroon Khera, Adrian Fu, Ron Park, and uppermids Alyssa Chen, Julie Nam and Chantal Yuen, coached by Jim Mooney and Jim Lehner, was named the Grade 11/12 Level A Best Overall National First Place Team in the Junior Engineering Technical Society’s
( JETS) annual TEAMS competition. “Put simply, this means our team was the best in the country,” said Headmaster Willy MacMullen ’78, “among public and private schools—and it means that Taft has some of the sharpest math and physics minds in the country, and some of the best teachers as well.”
The contest featured more than 900 teams and 10,000 students from 42 states. As a result of their victory, the Taft team earned $2,500, a trophy and a trip to Walt Disney World to see engineering in action. —continued on next page Taft Bulletin Summer 2010 11