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Fall 2025

First Place Solution in Fall 2025 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Mark Menaker on behalf of his team from University High School (Irvine).

Second Place Solution in Fall 2025 Simulation Racing Series

Title: Outcome-driven Optimization Loop for ROAR Simulation Racing Competition; Written by Youssef Khalafalla, a senior at John C Kimball High School, on behalf of Kimball Jags

Summer 2025

First Place Solution in Summer 2025 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Advay Bansal, a sophomore at Emerald High School.

Second Place Solution in Summer 2025 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Prathyush Belligundu from Monta Vista High School and Laura Wang from Aragon High School.

Third Place Solution in Summer 2025 Simulation Racing Series

Title: Developing a Collision Avoidance System to ROAR Simulation Racing Series, written by Youssef Khalafalla, a senior at John C Kimball High School, on behalf of Kimball Jags.

Spring 2025

First Place Solution in Spring 2025 Simulation Racing Series

Written by George Zeng, a graduated senior from University High School and a current student at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Second Place Solution in Spring 2025 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Mark Menaker, Aryan Mukherjee, and Radin Khosraviani, on behalf of their team from University High School (Irvine).

Third Place Solution in Spring 2025 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Ryan Chow, a rising senior at Sacred Heart Cathedral in San Francisco.

Fall 2024

First Place Solution in Fall 2024 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Derek Chen, Dylan Hackos, Anthony Wen, and Ron Veksler from Burlingame High School.

Second Place Solution in Fall 2024 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Mark Menaker and Aryan Mukherjee, on behalf of their team from University High School (Irvine).

Third Place Solution in Fall 2024 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Sid Arutla, Jaiveer Gill, Vivan Doshi, and Max Manolov from Bellarmine College Preparatory.

Summer 2024

First Place Solution in Summer 2024 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Derek Chen, Dylan Hackos, and Ron Veksler from Burlingame High School.

Second Place Solution in Summer 2024 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Eric Le, a rising Senior from De La Salle High School.

Third Place Solution in Summer 2024 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Yuehan Yang, Audrey Han, Gavin Chang, Alex Lin, and Brandon Koo from Walnut High School.

Spring 2024

Prime Directive Solution in Spring 2024 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Virgile Foussereau (EECS) and Quang Huynh (ME), UC Berkeley students. Please download the PDF file to view their report.

First Place Solution in Spring 2024 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Mark Menaker, on behalf of his team from University High School.

Second Place Solution in Spring 2024 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Ryan Chow.

Fall 2023

First Place Solution in Fall 2023 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Mark Menaker, our 2024 ROAR Ambassador from University High School in Irvine.

Second Place Solution in Fall 2023 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Yuehan Yang, Audrey Han, Gavin Chang, Alex Lin, and Brandon Koo from Walnut High School.

Third Place Solution in Fall 2023 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Ryan Chow, a HS sophomore at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, this paper describes his thought process for his third place solution in the Fall 2023 Simulation Racing Series Competition.

Summer 2023

First Place Solution in Summer 2023 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Derek Chen, this paper describes his thought process for his first place solution in the Summer 2023 Simulation Racing Series Competition.

Second Place Solution in Summer 2023 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Mark Menaker, Arvind Krishna Sivakumar, Saul Statman

Third Place Solution in Summer 2023 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Krishay Garg, a junior at American High School (Fremont, CA), this paper describes his third place solution in the Summer 2023 ROAR Competition.

Spring 2023

First Place Solution in Spring 2023 Simulation Racing Series

Written by Aaron Xie, this paper describes his team’s experience and thought process for their first place solution in the Spring 2023 Simulation Racing Series Competition with teammate Tristan Needham.

Summer 2022

First Place Solution in 2022 Summer ROAR S1/S2 Series

Written by Daniel Chuang, this paper describes his team’s experience and thought process for their first place solution in the Summer 2022 ROAR S1/S2 Series Competition with teammates Lucy Wang and Chris Wang. Iterating off of Aaron Xie’s previous winning solution, the team reprogrammed the car’s controller to be more aggressive, and developed a suite of tools to optimize testing and waypoint tuning.

Third Place Solution in 2022 Summer ROAR S1/S2 Series

Written by Vivian Zhu, a student from Vista del Lago High School, describing her experience and solution for her third place solution in Summer 2022 ROAR S1/S2 Series Competition.

Spring 2022

First Place Solution in 2022 ROAR S1/S2 Series Game

Written by Aaron Xie, our ROAR ambassador from Campolindo High School, describing his experience and solution for his first place solution in Spring 2022 ROAR S1/S2 Series Competition.

Second Place Solution in 2022 Spring ROAR S1/S2 Series

Written by Cameron Shaw, Kaveer Gera, Dorian Kolis, and Phillip McClure, our ambassador and his team from Athenian High School, describing their solution for the Spring 2022 ROAR S1/S2 Series competition.