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Robotics at Worlds – Captains’ Log Day 3
FIRST Robotics Competition Championship - Day 3 (Friday) Qualification matches for the Byting Irish today proceeded in an ideal way for our game strategy and gave us far greater chances at being picked in Alliance Selection, which will happen at 7:30am Saturday...
Robotics at Worlds – Captains’ Log Day 2
FIRST Robotics Competition Championship - Day 2 (Thursday) The first day of Qualification matches were challenging for the Byting Irish, but we will bounce back well and do our best at the World Championship on Friday. Team 7660 ended Thursday with two wins and three...
Robotics Captains’ Log from Worlds
Byting Irish Captain's Log WORLDS - Day 0 What are Captain's Logs? Captain's Logs are a glimpse into our team's experience of the FIRST Championship in Houston, Texas. More generally, they will update the team on current progress, keep individual subteams updated with...
Robotics Heading to States
The Byting Irish Robotics Team 7660 earned itself a place at the state competition with its second tournament victory in a row, at Ann Arbor’s Skyline High School on March 16-17. Forty-two teams participated in the competition, and at the end of the playoff rounds,...
Girls Basketball’s Historic Season
Father Gabriel Richard High School’s varsity girls basketball team wrapped up an epic season and playoffs run as they battled Detroit Edison Public School Academy for the MHSAA Division 2 state championship on Saturday, March 23rd. More than 200 students brought their...
Victory for FIRST Robotics Team 7660, The Byting Irish!
Seven and a half weeks of hard work led to victory for FIRST Robotics Team 7660, FGR’s Byting Irish, at their first match of the season, Milford District FIRST Robotics Competition on March 2nd-4th. In January, the team began designing and building a robot from...
New Electives Expand Learning Opportunities
With interactive games and collaboration among classmates, Introduction to Italian engages students in an active learning environment. Not quite half-way through the semester, students have covered the days of the week, months of the year, and are mastering counting...
Band Qualifies for State Festival
The FGR Concert Band performed at the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association (MSBOA) District Band and Orchestra Festival on Thursday, February 29 at Allen Park High School. This was their first competitive appearance under the direction of new band director,...
FGR Benefits from Eagle Scout Project
Eagle Scout candidates are tasked with completing a comprehensive service project for their communities before qualifying for the prestigious Boy Scouts of America award, and for Matthew Wilson ’26, it was a given that his project would benefit FGR. “He really loves...
Irish Football Makes Big Gains
When Jon Robinson left his Division I coaching job to become Father Gabriel Richard’s head football coach in the summer of 2021, he had never coached high school football before. He was looking for a more balanced life for his family, and waiting for God to show him...