A Lyceum Pierce students Alkinoos Anastasopoulos, Antonios Vlachakis, Stylianos Karachalios, and Alexandros-Panagiotis Rabosky (team BMN4), won 1st place in the 5th Racecar Challenge Competition, based on the Python programming and robotics course RACECAR Neo Mathisi 2026 (RACECAR Neo), designed by the Beaver Works Summer Institute (BWSI) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

With this victory, our students will have the opportunity to attend the final week of the 2026 BWSI summer camp at MIT and represent Greece in the international competition held at the end of the week (Sunday, August 2, 2026).

Two additional Pierce teams also participated and earned distinctions: the team Dashers (Maria-Evangelia Christodoulou (A Lyceum), Konstantinos Kallis, and Andreas Kanakis (both in C Gymnasium) won 3rd place, while the team Error Drifters (Eleftherios-Georgios Vallianatos and Petros Beis, both in B Gymnasium) won 5th place.