• Name: Renny
  • Age: 19
  • Team: 2145, Linden, Michigan
  • Years: 6 
  • Position: I was on the team for five years, and am now a mentor
  • Reason: My mom is the coach, and I wanted to spend more time with her. Fell in love with robotics instead. 
  • Motto: “I’ll fight you right now”
  • Obsessions:  Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Supernatural, origami, sushi, Ikea, Doctor Who, concerts, hockey, machines of any sorts, and a lot more. 

Posted 4 weeks ago
  • Name: Meaghan
  • Age: 17
  • Team: 548
  • Years: 3
  • Position(s): Sponsorship lead
  • Reason: My eighth grade science teacher told me he thought I’d like it. He was right.
  • Motto: It’s an occupational hazard.
  • Obsessions: EVERYTHING

Posted 1 month ago

  • Name: Kim
  • Age: 17
  • Team: 74, CHAOS, from Holland, MI
  • Years: 2
  • Position: Electrical & programming, Team Co-Captain
  • Reason: When I switched schools my junior year, my counselor introduced me to someone from robotics because she was also a junior who wanted to go into engineering, so I ended up becoming friends with all of the robotics kids, and eventually joined just before season started.
  • Motto:  ”This is CHAOS. We don’t ‘ka-frickin’-boom’ here.” (A bunch of us watched Get Smarttogether, and it doesn’t take a room full of future engineers to replace KAOS with CHAOS.)
  • Obsessions:  Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Sherlock, Doctor Who, & Nerdfighteria.

Posted 4 months ago

Name: Ashley
Age: 18 
Team: 494 
Years: 2 
Positions: Everything from Safety Captain to Team Captain 
Reason: An old friend was persistent on bringing me to meetings, but it wasn’t until my first off season competition that I joined
Motto: You are the change you want to see in the world
Obsession: Music-Guitar, Pretzel Goldfish, Sarah Dessen Books, and Pretty Little Liars

Posted 9 months ago

  • Name: you can call me pikachu
  • Age: 16
  • Team: 201
  • Years: 2
  • Position(s): PR
  • Reason: Friend in middle school made me (I would have been on the gearheads, but I moved)
  • Motto: “Furthermore, I digress” -The back of the CAD room (home to PR and animation) 
  • Obsessions: dancing, hello! project, pokemon

Posted 11 months ago

  • Name: Megan (:
  • Age: 20
  • Team: 815 Advanced Power, Allen Park, MI
  • Years: 6
  • Position(s): For the four years I was on the team, I was the president, the secretary, the treasurer, and the drive coach. Now, I’m just a supporter.
  • Reason: My best friend, good thing I listened to her, or I wouldn’t have met my current boyfriend of three years from FRC 47/51.
  • Motto: Advanced Power..building more than just robots.
  • Obsessions: The Hunger Games, Josh Hutcherson, tumblr, and the Food Network ;)

Posted 11 months ago

  • Name: Megan (:
  • Age: 20 years young
  • Team: FRC 815, Allen Park, Michigan
  • Years: 6 years
  • Position: For the four years I was on the team, I was the treasurer, the secretary, and lastly the president. Now that I’m no longer a student, I’m there for support.
  • Reason: My best friend was on the team for the beginning of our freshman year, and convinced me it would be worth it.
  • Motto:  Team 815..building more than just robots..
  • Obsessions: Oh my, The Hunger Games, Josh Hutcherson, and The Food Network. (:

Posted 11 months ago

Name: Andy, “The professor”.

Age: 17

Team: 3668, The TroBots

years: 2

Position(s): Team Founder, Team Captain 

Reason: I started because I was fascinated by robotics. Stayed because it became my life.  And I loved it!

Motto: 1) Never under estimate the power of redundancy. 2) measure twice, cut once when Andy’s around, Eyeball it when he’s not. 

Obsesions: Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Minecraft. 

Posted 11 months ago

  • Name:  Jared Coke
  • Age:  18
  • Team:  308, Monsters, Walled Lake Schools, MI
  • Years:  2
  • Position(s):  Media/Marketing Dept. Lead, Video Production Lead, Student Board Member of Monsters Robotics Inc.
  • Reason:  Robotics gave me a new life, one where I didn’t need to be who everyone else wanted to me to be, but rather who I wanted to be.  Because after all, if you don’t enjoy what you do, then why do you do it?
  • Motto:  I may be weird, but I’ll tell you a secret.  All the best people are.
  • Obsessions:  FIRST, WLTV (Walled Lake Television), STAR WARS, Military/World History, United Kingdom, Humourous things, Weird Al, I could go on but I won’t waste your precious dash space.

Posted 11 months ago

  • Name: Brandon
  • Age: 16
  • Team: 862
  • Years: 3
  • Position(s): Programming Leader, Secretary
  • Reason: I joined because my friend asked me to come with him to check it out. I didn’t know how long I’d last, but after seeing all the robots in action at Kettering Kickoff, I knew I wanted to contribute and be a part of FIRST.
  • Motto: K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid.
  • Obsessions: Robotics, Uhhh… I like turtles. And Pokemon :D Anime is purty cool too

Posted 12 months ago