The "Introduce yourself thread"

[segwaychatadmin]

Hello,

Please use this thread to introduce yourself. Are you a member of a FIRST team? Which school do you represent? Are you a mentor or sponsor? (if so, thanks for all your hard work!)

- Frank

[ElleryW]

Greetings!

Ellery - Mentor on Team # 191 - Xerox/Wilson HS X-CATS (One of the initial First Participants since 1992)

This will be my 4th year in the competition primarily working with students in CAD/Mechanical Design and Manufacture/Assembly - If anyone has any questions for our team please visit www.x-cats.org and submit in the guestbook or forums. If things work out well we are on the path of sponsoring a second Xerox team here in Rochester NY with School of the Arts.

Ellery Wong

Systems Engineering, Production Systems Group
Phone: (585) 231-8700
Email:Ellery.Wong@usa.xerox.com
Fax: (585) 422-4948 / Pager: (585) 238-0751
Address: 800 Phillips Rd, 0111-20N,Webster, NY 14580

[Schuff]

Good Morning!

Sean Schuff - Teacher mentor on Team 93 N.E.W. Apple Corps - Plexus Technology Group and Appleton Area School District.

This will be my fourth year as a team mentor and our teams 7th season overall. We've even gone so far as to build a school (in a theoretical sense for now) around FIRST Robotics and all of the educational opportunities it has to offer. Visit both our sites at www.aasd.k12.wi.us/tesla

I'm looking forward tousing this site as a way to interact with other mentors and sahre ideas and thoughts for this years challenge.

First question for anyone who knows - What is the story with the Championship Event this year? Anyone know anything?

Sean

Tesla Engineering Charter School
NEW Apple Corps Robotics - Team 93
Appleton, WI

[bcelenza]

Hello all!

My name is Brian Celenza, I am a senior member of Team 144 (Cincinnati, Oh), and I am looking forward to my last year in the competition.

I will be doing a lot of the contact information for the team. You can check us out at http://team144.mdreamworks.net , or if you have any questions just email info@team144.mdreamworks.net, and one of our representatives will email you back.

Thanks! Hope to see you all soon!

Brian J. Celenza
Senior Member - Team 144
Cincinnati, Ohio

[Ireland Traveler]

I am Mark from Phoenix Arizona, I am a member of the Brophy Robotics club, and I am a sophomore. I just joined the club this year, and I can tell it will be a blast.

Gamecube is awesome and I own you.

[gmitchell]

Hello, one and all!

I am Griffin Mitchell, a long-time nerd and short-time FIRST
participant. I am, as can be observed in the more legible portions
of my signature, a mentor (of sorts) for team 814 - in other words,
I'm now too much of an old fart to actually be a driver or anything
exciting like that, so I'm stuck with sitting back and being content
with the fact that I am the only one on the team who has the
slightest idea how to program. My job this year is to make sure I'm
not anymore.

Anyway, I think I might actually start my time off here by trying
(and probably failing) to answer a question, namely the one posed
above (or below, depending on sort order) this post: "What is the
story with the Championship Event this year? Anyone know anything?"

If I understand what is being asked, the odd-numbered teams are
admitted automatically - but don't quote me on that.

What I DO know (or can at least look up) is the criteria for
admission. If you meet one of the following conditions,
congratulations! You qualify automatically! All former Championship Chairman’s Award winners (1992-2002) Prior year
Championship winners Teams that have participated in every
competition year (1992-2002) Current year Regional Event winners
Current year Regional Chairman’s Award winners Current
year Technical Award winners at Regional Events (Driving Tomorrow’s
Technology, Industrial Design, Leadership in Controls, and Quality
Awards)
If not, don't loose hope! There's still more...
If you don't meet the above criteria, you can qualify if you have a
total of five points on this scale. Regional or Championship
Divisional winner - 3 points Regional or Championship
Divisional finalist - 2 points Regional Chairman's Award
winner - 3 points FIRST-Judged Award winner at Regional or
Championship Event - 2 points Top Seed at Regional or
Championship Event - 1 point Top Rookie Seed at Regional or Championship Event - 1 point
Just so all of you can get ticked off at me for wasting your
bandwidth now, I'll mention what I should have mentioned about three
pages ago: All this information (and quite a bit more) is available at
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/res_art9.htm.

Have fun reading through the jumbled masses of text, and appologies
to those who try to read this if this doesn't line-wrap.

01000111011100100110100101100110011001100110100101 10111000100000
01001101011010010111010001100011011010000110010101 10110001101100
New Technology High School, Team 814 - Mentor
Napa, CA

[Matt Attallah]

Hello,

I'm Maher Attallah off of team #5! I'm the driver/student leader! :)

[Meski42]

Hello to all you other robo people! My name is Cassy, a Junior at Xavier College Prep, I'm the president of our robotics team #460, The Pixilation. This is my third year participating with FIRST, and for all of you who are considering it, it is SOOOOO much fun. It has been an incredible experience and I am thrilled to be a part of it. I'm already gettin excited for the kickoff!Have a lovely day 8D

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travled by.

[bchui]

Hm, I wonder how you got my email? I did FIRST in 1997 and 1998, the founding years of the GRT team.

I've since graduated from Berkeley with my BS in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Now I'm a lowly grad student in ME at Berkeley!

I still go back to see what my team is up to.

GRT Founder - 1997, 1998
Berkeley BORG Founder - 2000
BS Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, UC Berkeley 2002
Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley

[TheHornet]

Hey guys, My name is Mason and i'm from team 118! This is my second year on with FIRST and i'll be a sophmore this year :D so i'll be popping in here and there from time to time...

"The Cheese Is Twice The FencePost" -ed

http://www.halflife.org ~For all your Half-Life Needs.

[Ryan93]

Hi-
My name is Ryan Brandenburg and I am, along with Mr. Sean Schuff, a team member of team 93, NEW Apple Corps. I am starting my Junior year at Appleton East High in Appleton, WI and my third year on the robotics taem. This year, I am going to work on the mechanical/CAD team. I want to one day possibly work for DEKA Reserch as a mechanical engineer and volunteer for FIRST in some way. I look forward to this year because I now really know what is going on our team and have leadership possibilities. Good luck to ALL teams in the 2003 FIRST Robotics season!

-Ryan

[Fufu]

Hey
I am David Krumwiede and another member of team 93. I am a sophmore at Appleton East and this will be my second year on the team. I will be doing computer animation again this year. I really injoy participating in FIRST and I hope everyone has a good year.

[dmitchell]

Greetings to all,

My name is Dr. David Mitchell, and I am a parent advisor to Team 303 in Bridgewater New Jersey. This is my third year being involved in FIRST Robotics. In addition to my activities with Team 303 I conduct robotics classes for elementary school students and try and keep the sprit and intent of the FIRST competition alive and well. In my day job I am an Optometric Physician.

It's good to see some familiar names here and I'm looking forward to participating.

--Dr. Dave

[vteck21]

Hola,
My name is Kyle and im part of Hart High School's Robotics team. I'm new to the scene and do not know much about the competition or what robotics is truly about. But that's what I'm here for, to learn, oh yah, and build a way cool web page. Hopefully, I can get some feedback from people who are doing web pages for their team on how to set it up and what to put on it, when I get it up on the internet that is.
Until then, I hope to talk to you all some more, and I will hopefully be a regular here (looking up stuff most likely), but also hopefully helping in any way possible.
Wow, if I wrote too much, dont be mad, I just finished writing an english essay and am in the "writing mood".
Well, good luck to you all I hope we all become friends.
Adios,
Kyle (Vtec)

"If you can't laugh at yourslef, make fun of other people." - Bobby Slayton

[Firetrail]

This is Hester from Team 492. We are the Titan Robotics Club and we were 2nd in the seattle regional last year. and winners of the judges award in los angeles competition. Um. I am in charge of Public Relations and all that other fun marketing stuff, and some money on our team. I'm one of the three exec student members. But building the first robot is the funnest part of working for this club. So that's what i do first. Our website is being moved to another server right now so there's nothing there. (its amazing how as soon as a boy takes over on the web site it disappears)
If you want to contact our team for anything ( we are in bellevue washington 5 miles east of seattle) feel free to e-mail me.
thanx.
Peace out.

I could be witty but i don't want to spend the brain power, as it is very limited

[mercgryph]

Hello,
I am a student/veteran participant (at least compared to the ppl on my team now) of team 926. the CAPacitors! (the CAP is capitalized b/c our school uses CAPS as our general team name for all sports and compeditive activites.. we just adapted it)
Even though it is a newbie team i was there all of our past year. Now i see that this forum is a great resource for me.

Even though im on the list as a team member the days that they chose to meet are the only ones i cannot be there for, so, im kinda in the dark and being quickly left behind.
If anyone has any suggestions i would gladly take them.
I have already tried to get e-mail from our group e-mail and also from individuals on the team. The group e-mail dosent send to me and my teammates dont remember to take the time to e-mail me!

Im now starting to wear the E off my keyboard. ( too many e-mail requests)
anyway i hope that this forum is a great sucess!

i will probably be on daily.

the anthromorphic quicksilver gryphon of the CAPacitors team 926
*wink* Mercury!
*!* Strike-A-Pose *!*

[markpettit]

Hi! I'm Mark Pettit from Brophy College Preparatory (Team 991) in Phoenix, AZ.
I'm happy to be in my third year moderating Brophy's Robotics Club as we enjoy the FIRST competition and our other robotic-related adventures.
I'm also glad that SegwayChat is giving us the opportunity to share our ideas through this forum.
'Hope to be as much help to you people as you will be to me!


Mark Pettit
Systems Administrator and Robotics Club Moderator
Brophy College Preparatory

[weedie]

Hey everyone! I am a senior member on team 84 -
WATTNESS from Towanda, PA! This is my fourth year on the team, and my second full year on the drive team. I am an excellent information source.... I am more than willing to share my knowledge. We have qualified for the 2003 Championship, TBD, TBD..... and are planning on attending Mid Atlantic and Chesepeake Regionals. Good Luck to all!

"Don't just drive because you love it - drive for the pure victory!"

[Tyler93]

Hello everybody,
I am Tyler Olds from team 93! (yay) From good ol' Appleton Wisconsin.
This will be my 3rd year on the team.
I am the coodinator for the animations team, and I do alot of strategy work at the competitions too.
Last year I had the honor of being the human player. My god what an experiance that was. I now know how the professionals feel the first few times they get up to play or preform.
I am hoping that I get to be the driver this year, but you never know ;).
Last year, we placed 3rd at MMR and got the quality award, and the incrediable play award. At nationals we were Einstein division finalists. (6th place alliance over all).
Tyler

Tyler Olds
Team 93
Head Animator
Strategy

[tlscott]

Hello,

I am Tonya Scott, and I am the teacher/team sponsor from Ponca City High School ADIDARONS robotics team #476.

This will be our 4th year. Please visit our team website at www.adidar.com

We have integrated robotics into our curriculum and use the LEGO robots as part of the curriculum with engineers/mentors helping out team teaching.

We have had to be VERY creative with our fundraisers. We would love to share our ideas. We also are interested in unique fundraiser ideas that you have had success with.

Our most popular fundraiser has been selling little flashy/magnetic lites at football games. visit www.extremeglow.com be sure to tell them I sent you please :):D

we can clear $1000 each ballgame!

Good luck to you all! It is going to be a great year. Looking forward to visiting with you all at competition.

THANK YOU SEGWAY CHAT--THIS IS GREAT.

TS

Tonya Scott

[Katie Reynolds]

Hello, I'm Katie Reynolds. I am the electrical lead for team #93 - the N.E.W. Apple Corps. Usually, I am online and you can find me in Tigerbolt or on the Chief Delphi forums. If you need any help with team admin. stuff, electrical stuff or fundraisers, feel free to email or IM me! I'll be glad to help in any way I can! :)

- Katie

Tigrbolt: Katie93
Chief Delphi: Katie Reynolds
E-mail: FIRSTae2004@yahoo.com
AIM: KatieReynolds93

Team #93
N.E.W. Apple Corps

[firstroboman]

Hi,

I'm Ed Sparks, creator of the FirstCadLibrary website and Engineer/Coach on team #34 (DaimlerChrysler & Butler High). I've been involved with the FIRST program for 7 years now and have a pretty good grasp on the technical issues of FIRST robot building. Give me a shout if you need any help or advice.

- Ed

[Andy Baker]

Howdy,

My name is Andy Baker. I am a mechanical engineer, and I am the engineering team leader of team 45, the TechnoKats. This coming year will be my 6th year with FIRST, and the 12th year for the team.

If anyone needs help, drop me a note. If it's something that I can't handle, I can easily get you in touch with another TechnoKat who can help.

Sincerely,
Andy Baker


Andy Baker
Lead Engineer
TechnoKats Robotics Team

[Ravi U]

Hi everyone.

I'm Ravi Upadhyay. I'm a second year member of the North Toronto Robotics team, DeltaTech - Team 820, which is also a sophomore team. We are located in Toronto, Canada. I'm the finance administrator of the team. If anyone needs any help with anything, feel free to give me a shout north of the border.

Ravi Upadhyay
DeltaTech Robotics - Team 820
Toronto, ON

[jk2005]

Hi everyone.
Some of you may know me from Chiefdelphi.com
I am starting my second year on RAGE team 173. I am on the Rockville Connecticut part of the team and look forward to having a great year.

[Redhead JOkes]

2000 my stepson (ss) was beginning high school and our family rule was 2 extracurriculars. The robotics' program wasn't publicized well, but I spied it out and emailed the teacher. He emailed me back suspiciously, "who are you?" *shrug* a parent. He curtly explained the program wouldn't start til Jan.

Ss attended all meetings, but sociability isn't his strong point. The VP made an unpopular decision, including ss in going to FL altho he didn't do much. The team won regionally and nationally. There was enthusiasm showing in ss.

2002 my husband joined the team as mentor trying to help ss stay in the program. My 17yo gregarious daughter joined for the same reason. My husband, the computer guru, had a ball also helping building the robot. We had no clue how much my daughter would thrive in the program. She'd never "taken" to other extracurricular stuff. Her sister-in-law is amazed, remarking, "I can't believe Angela's doing this." Angela worked at the machine shop, co-drove at all the competitions, and became RUHS President of robotics 2003.

2003 my freshman daughter and I joined. My freshman daughter took a welding class over the summer before her freshman year with her stepdad cuz a robotics' alumni had mentioned girls make the best welders. My 14yo, the youngest to have ever taken the welding class, kicked her stepdad's butt in the class.

Then, with our partners - a family from our rival school MCHS, we began to make excellent progress in making the team better. A year round program, a single facility to work in, gracious professionalism a value that was ignored in the past became a priority, I discovered a flair for publicity and fundraising. Our robotics team is now EASY for people to find out about.

My ss's dropped out. The rest of us are having a ball.

My 14yo daughter is recruiting people like crazy. They don't know they want to be in robotics. They don't know the kind of fun they're going to have. They don't know all the different kinds of skills they can learn, and what they're capable of. They're finding out.

Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach CA USA, and Mira Costa High School, Manhattan Beach CA USA - 2 rival schools, one FIRST team.

Cheryl Miller, SCRRF List Mgr, Webmaster, Contacts List
Southern California Regional Robotics Forum
http://www.scrrf.org
Beach Cities Robotics Team 294 Team Mom
2001 SoCal Regional and National Champions
http://www.bcrobotics.org
mailto:cheryl@bcrobotics.org

[UCGL_GUY]

Howdy from Ponca City Oklahoma. I am a Chemical yes Chemical research technician whose son thought a trip to Disney would be cool. Now starting my 4th year and loving most every minute. I am known as the idea guy, even if only half are any good. Let me know if I can help in any way. Our focus is on the spirit of FIRST and getting a lot more teams in the midwest so we can have a regional in OKC only 2 hours away.

TTFN
Ken
BTW I am a fan of Tigger

Ken York
Mentor Team 476
Ponca City OK

[BBBix]

Hello,

My name is Bill, I am a junior on team 418, Purple Haze from Austin Texas. Just want to extend a big howdy to all!

Bill B.

[EnigMaSized]

Hey, Jason Hunter. I'm a junior on the new West Salem High School (Oregon) Rookie Team. Looking forward to our first year.

[BBBix]

Howdy and Welcome!!! You will love first, I gurantee it. Are you gonna go to Nationals? If so, you will get to see our wonderful state.

Enjoy it here,
Bill B.

"Those who think that they know everything are especially annoying to those of us who do." ;)

[PT_Pan]

My name is Tom Cox and I am a Fluid Power professional who has voluteered to help with the Kick off meeting in Novi, MI on January 4, 2003. I have been involved with fluid power for 14 years now and this FIRST stuff has me really excited. I can't wait to meet some of you face to face.

[Brooster]

Happy Holidays everyone!

I'm Brooster (age 43), a founding member of segwaychat.com. We're really happy to have you all here, and I invite you to join us "upstairs" in the Segway forum. We certainly welcome your input and participation. This isn't just an "owners'" forum, though it may seem like it. We're all pretty excited, because a lot of us are owners-to-be. :) But please, do dive in!

FIRST members, I'm in awe at what you guys do. I hope to be able to volunteer my services at one or more of your events soon. In the meantime ... go nuts ... but relax, think, and envision.

Try to imagine how the future might feel.

Thanks for your time!

Broo
Chicago



Brooster

[bombbomb]

Hello,

My name is Jeff Mikrut, and I am a senior memeber of team #991 out in Phoenix, Arizona. I am more-or-less in charge of the mechanical end of our team, so I can be of some use to rookie teams (even if I am a student, I am competent in most mechanical aspects so any questions I will gladly answer to the best of my ability). Good luck to everyone this year, and hopefully our team might meet you at one point in time.

[robohyo]

Hi,
I'm a rookie member from a rookie team. I'm Nelson Green and I'm a senior on team #1108 from Paola, Kansas. I manage the teams website (still being worked on) http://www.geocities.com/robohyo and am the co-captain. We began our FIRST season by writing a winning grant to NASA through KU and are going to attend the Lone Star Regional. I am dissapointed that I only discovered this program in my senior year but am excited to get started. The field of engineering is an interest to me and I am planning to go to K-state or MIT (hopefully, if Woodie will let me in) for college and pursue chemical engineering. Our team is learning lots of new things and the season hasn't begun officially. We get to start the fun stuff saturday.

NELSON GREEN
TEAM #1108
PANTHER ROBOTICS
PAOLA, KANSAS
http://www.geocities.com/robohyo

[Billius]

Hi,
My name is Will and I am Vice-President of team 898. I am a sophmore at Ironwood High here in Arizona. The robotics program at Ironwood started last year and was run predominatley by freshman (gasp!), which makes me one of the more "veteran" members. I had the pleasure of attending the remote kickoff in Phoenix today and I am very impressed by the new game! From what I can tell, this year will be even better than the last, and having a little experiance under my belt only adds to my excitment, For what is worth, you can contact me on AIM, my screen name is Ev1lD3d. Visit my team on the web at: http://clubweb.peoriaud.k12.az.us/Ironwood_Robotics/ (WARNING: DO NOT RIGHT CLICK ON THE WEB PAGE, OUR WEBMASTER HAS AN "INTERESTING" SESNE OF HUMOR).

[BBBix]

Howdy and welcome to both Nelson and Will. Nice to see y'all here. Pretty cool game, ain't it? I thought that it was interesting how Dean Kamen sounded like he was apologizing for having such a simple game. Still, it will be fun. I wish both of your teams the best of luck, may we see you at nationals.

Bill B., Team 418

Austin, TX

"Those who think that they know everything are especially annoying to those of us who do." ;)

[ProjectRebirth11]

Hidy Ho, fellow hardcore robotix members...

I am Tsubasa Kondo from Greenwich, Connecticut, home of Team 19, the only robotics team in the county.

I work as part of the Pit crew, being that I have OCD and I also took up design and the Art/decoration division this year.

I'll be posting a whole buttload of technical questions, so be prepared...

...And that was another random post from the Asian...

[jenfishm]

Hey Everyone!

Greetings from team #340! I'm Jen, a senior, and have been building bots for 3 years now. The electrical team has been my home, along with promotions and an occasional visit to the mechanical, so if you have questions ask away. Our team is here to help! Good luck in competition!

Jen
GRR #340
Rochester, NY
jamallory@juno.com


"Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them."

[trollin1st]

My name is Janice Bourget, I'm orignally from team 146 in Manchester NH, Since I have graduated in 1999 I have been working with other teams, last year I worked with team 131 CHAOS, and this year I am working with rookie team 1073 from Hollis/Brookline as a Strategy Mentor, I am a elite few that are mbr's of the Blue Lightning Alumni Association and also working with an Alumni group calle IF...hope to see everyone @ the Manchester regional...BACK TO THE ROOTS OF FIRST!!! Back to where FIRST was born...

Janice Bourget
Strategy mentor for team 1073
Mbr of Blue Lightning Alumni Asoc. and mbr of IF
-"To err is human and to blame it on a computer is more so."

[MorEDakKA]

Hi, my name is Tim Allen, and I am a student mentor on team 441, Reagan High School in Houston, TX. Our team will be at the Lone Star Regional. Good luck to any other teams there.

[CCCHSROBOTICS04]

Hi my name is John
Team 883 Cleveland Central Catholic

My job this year is to wire everything up and try to complete the 3dsmax presentation.

Some of you may remember my team since im the only returning member
Our robot was called C.I.M.A.S. id have to say its alot better this year then last


TEAM: 883
Year: Junior
Job: EVERYTHING

[rookie101]

Hello,
My name is Tabetha. I am from Camp Verde, Az. I am new and hope to learn some thing.

"The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse always gets the cheese"

[Tigress]

Hey, everyone. I'm a rising senior, and this upcoming year will be my second and the team's third with FIRST. I'm with the controls subteam (I think).

Oh, if there's anyone on Team 67 (The "Hot" Team), tell Josh I said hi.

EIGHT-ONE-ONE!!!

:D

Team 811 Cardinals
"Red Streak"
Bishop Guertin High School
Nashua, NH

[Sniper_007_robotics]

Hello, I'm Nathan Sheets. I am the dolly maker leader and welder for team #1236 Galileo Magnet High School. If you need some help with money e-mail me.

-Nathan

[robo-lemur]

hello, my name is jason lemery, im from danville, VA, and im at
Galileo High School

i am the programmer 4 team 1236, team Phoenix
this is our second year, and im having a blast, considering this is
my team's second year too.
we've got some great ideas, but tips are welcome!

thanks!

[candy_babe_88]

Hi everyone! I'm Mandy... the unofficial leader of team 1236 (phoenix rising) from Danville, Virginia. This is our second year participating in the FIRST competition, and we hope to have a blast! If you have any questions... feel free to ask!!!

See Yall Later!
Mandy :D

[Dale Hall]

Hello fellow 2004 Roboteers, (1-8-4)

My name is Dale Hall, Beach Cities Robotics Team 294, Redondo Beach, California, Dale.Hall@ngc.com

Redondo Union & Mira Costa High Schools, LA County,
www.bcrobotics.org, MrHall@bcrobotics.org

Been FIRST Sponsor/Mentor/Engineer Team 294 since 1999(this=6th year)

Team 294 does robotics year round w/open door to FIRST teams students mentors:
1999:Region-7th
2001:Regional+National Champs+Esthetics Award
2003:Region2nd+EngrInspiration+J&J Sportsmanship Awards
2004:aiming for Chairmans Award (came close 2003)

Our complete field is open to other teams:
RUHS Robotics Shop:(was autoshop)620 Diamond St (1 blk E of PCH) Redondo Beach, CA 90277-2971

FYI preview the 2004 field BOM for the field, available NOW
3 castors + plywood: 7ea 4x8x.5" 1ea 4x8x.75"
(start speculating... a goal + ramp or ???)
http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2004/bom_lowcostfield.htm,
all other categories are PW protected until Jan 10th kickoff.

Good luck to all .... Dale

[Plainedge High School 527]

Hello everyone! I just wanted to introduce myself and this was the perfect place to do it.(hence the title 'The "Introduce yourself thread"')

I am from Team 527 Plainege High School Robotics and we are currently entering our 3rd Year in competition. I am the Webmaster of our site along with another memeber of our club and i also help on the construction of the robot. Here is a link to our site: "http://nemesis2.com/phs/robotics". Good Luck to everyone in this year's upcoming competition!

Plainedge High School Robotics

Team #527

SBPLI Long Island Regional

3rd Year in FIRST Robotics

[errapi]

Hello,

My name is Erin Rapacki, and I am a FIRSTaholic. For 2001 & 2002 I was a high-school student member on Buzz #175. My senior year, I participated a lot with the team's Chairman's Award effort... we won the National Chairman's Award that year and got kicked off stage by Mandy Moore in Epcot after recieving the trophy. Heh, it was a very exciting evening.

Now, I am a Sophomore Mechanical Engineering student at Northeastern Univeristy. I have been a mentor on team #125, the NU-TRONS, for these past two years. I am also the founder of an upcoming off-season event, the Beantown Blitz. I concieved the idea for NU to host an event while staring at a wall during Physics class my freshman year, inspiration happens in odd places:)

I am now a intern/coop at DEKA Research & Development for these six months (Jan - June 2004). I have also worked at Hamilton Sundstrand for the past two summers (JSF & Space Suit).

I'll be 'manning' the FIRST Robotics Conference while in Atlanta, I served on that committee as well.

Gotta go back to being 19!


ByE

erin

[stokely]

I have been on this site for 2 months and just noticed there was a FIRST forum, just having too much fun I guess.

Anyway. Currently I am the teacher moderator/Mentor of team 360 the Revolution, in Tacoma Washington. Been here for three years.
Previously I was there when team 258, the Sea Dawgs got started. Those were the days.

Anyway, always wondering how many Segways will be at various Regionals.

Anyone planning on bringing a Segway to Vegas this year?

Eric Stokely
<edit> I just noticed I was below Erin on here. She introduced me to my current i167.
Thanks Erin!


Mac user since 1984
BMW Motorcycle Owner since 1994
iPod owner since 2004
Segway owner since 2004
I think I see a pattern

[Basheroffroad]

Hi my name is Matt Kinnison I am a machinist for Team #63 The Red Barons we are from McDowell High School in Erie Pa. This is my second year as a FIRST student and I will never forget my experiences with FIRST. Before I joined I had heard of Dean Kamen and had admired him but I never thought I would get a chance to meet him in person.
Now all I have to do is earn enough money to buy a Segway and life will be perfect

Basheroffroad
FIRST team #63
The Red Barons

[BrianC]

My Name is Brian. This was my rookie year as a mentor for a FIRST Team (1675). I am an Embedded Systems Engineer with Rockwell Automation. We were fortunate to have a young man on our team with some JAVA experience who picked up the 'C' programming very quickly so my job was easy. But I can see how it can be puzzling to others especially within the Framework of the the default program provided.
So if you need help drop me a note.

Brian

Brian C
Embedded Systems Engineer
Rockwell Automation