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Universities

Many alumni have been accepted to and attended prestigious and internationally-ranked universities including Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, New York University, Boston University, University of Pittsburgh, Penn State's Schreyer Honors College, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Arizona Honors College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Drexel, and The United States Coast Guard Academy.

Majors

In five years, every graduate of Downingtown Area Robotics has gone on to college, and most have majored in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) or business subject. Specific majors and minors include mechanical, aerospace, marine, civil, material, chemical, and biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering technology, naval architecture, engineering science, applied mechanics, computer science, chemistry, environmental biology, actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, and military science.

Scholarships

Graduates have been awarded FIRST Robotics scholarships, which high school juniors and seniors can apply for. They have also received many other scholarships and grants, including several full scholarships to distinguished universities.

STEM/Robotics Participation

Many graduates have held STEM jobs at local businesses and/or participated in STEM research, including robotics-related studies. In addition, some alumni have returned as mentors to Downingtown Area Robotics and others participate on robotics or FIRST teams, including Team 2152 and Penn State's AUVSI IGVC Team.

Alumni

2005

• Bill Best(?)
• Minh Tran
• Brandon Zehner(?)

2006

• James Coll
• Ethan Goldblum
• Jake Marsh
• Steven Owens (Captain 2006)
• Kathleen(?)

2007

• Josh Anders
• Paul Andrejko
• Ian Barr(?)
• Ryan Christen(?)
• Cassie Jurgens
• Vicky Lai
• Ben McElroy (Captain 2007)
• David Pravensky(?)
• Jeremy Schieferstein
• Eddy Scrivens II(?)
• Kevin Short(?)
• Shawn Trainer(?)
• Victoria Tran
• Don Webb
• Kyle West(?)

2008

• John Carpenter
• Dan Coll
• Jason Downey
• Amber McKown
• Michael Posner (Co-Captain 2008)
• John Stumpo (Co-Captain 2007)
• Matt Witmer

2009

(Names in Alphabetical order)

Alex Clark

is a freak of nature. He has arms that extend 90' and in his final games playing Lunacy he was able to make a number of those Did YOU SEE THAT? shots at competition. He also has excellent music tastes, who would have thought that zydeco was the right music for the final crate night?

Evan Kroboth

Hans Herman

was the key designer and engineer in Vex Team 1640 robot. He spent time working with the new middle school roboteers to get them to assemble the design correctly. He spent an number of weekends in doing final assembly and programming to get the robot to do exactly what they wanted. His leadership skills in getting new middle school roboteers to do what was needed and focused on the robot was a commendable effort.

Anna Hughes

is a long term roboteer in the Vex organization. She did an outstanding job in her senior year by doing all the "event" planing which consisted of getting parents assigned, planning the food and beverage concession and getting all of the items delivered for the events we held. She is one of the reasons the Eastern Pennsylvania Vex Regional was such a success.

Siri Maley (Captain 2008 and 2009)

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Zak McConnell

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Heather McKown (Co-Captain 2009)

is one of the diminishing group of small fingered orphans (SFO). The small fingered orphans are roboteers that have the ability to stick their hands into poorly designed, awkward spaces and actually make mechanical changes. This saved us hours of disassembly time and was a factor in design "awww just get a SFO" to fix poor design plans.

Heather was also a Class A Machinist, she can fab parts with the best of them.

Elizabeth Murphy

Has skills in a number of areas. First, she is a Class A Machinist. The phrase "If Murph can't make it you don't want it" had two meanings. Either the part was so poorly defined that you were not going to be happy with the result. Second was the double bend into N space you had designed wasn't going to work in this universe. In most cases, she could produce parts off of drawings. On time, on spec, one pass!

She is also an artist with paint and brush. She painted the DEWBOT V shipping crate, which won rave comments from other teams. The complicated "wireframe screwdriver" with sparks was hand drawn based on a tee-shirt. The famous "Hope is not an Engineering Strategy" was replicated on the side of the crate.

James Yu

due to his schedule was not there as much as the mentor's would have liked. When he was in the shop, work happened. A combination of mechanical skills and a high energy personallity got James and other roboteers fired up to complete tasks.