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Thirty-nine alumni enjoyed an evening at the Flyway Brewing Company in North Little Rock on May 23, 2017. Youngest was Jonathon Seaver, class of 2010, and oldest was Buddy Vogler, class of 1947.

Middle school drama students performed plays written by their high school counterparts. This May 6 production counted as their final exam.

Zachary Plugge and Ryan Moore won the human-powered car event at the STEM competition at Paris High on May 5. A number of area schools participated. The car was completely built by Zachary and Ryan. They used parts from both families to make it. Steering and front wheels were from a riding lawn mower, back wheels from an old bike). Zachary drove the car, Ryan was only allowed to push 20 feet. On Friday, May 5th, 15 Subiaco students competed in the annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Competition held at the Paris High School. The event is sponsored by the Guy Fenter Educational CO-OP and brings in close to 1,000 students, grades 5th-12th, from across the area to compete in several different competitions. This year the competitions consisted of a bridge build, robotics challenge, engineering challenge, water filtration build, catapult build, wind mill build, egg buggy build, and a people powered car challenge. The boys spent several weeks prior to the competitions designing and creating their respective builds and because of their dedication did extremely well at the competition. Of the six competitions Subiaco competed in they won 1st place in five events: people powered car (Sr. High), water filtration (Jr. High), bridge building (Jr. and Sr.), and robotics (Jr.). Subiaco came in 2nd in several competitions: bridge build (Sr.), catapult (Sr.) and engineering challenge (Sr.).

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