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I was the captain-manager of Downingtown Area Robotics FRC team from 2007 to 2009, until I handed off the position to Carly McKown before graduating from Downingtown High School East Campus in June of 2009. I held my position as captain-manager for two terms, after Head Mentor Emeritus and Team Founder Paul Sabatino went on medical sabbatical. In that time, I served as the team's representative and student liaison, chief media-creator, paperwork-doer, question-answerer, scheduler and organizer, finance officer (now a separate department), etc. I also serve on the Steering Committee in my capacity as captain.

In the 2009 season, I was the first student member of the design team (largely thanks to Clem McKown's mass emails), a position we aim to expand to many other students in the future. This experience also helped me act as the team's lead mechanical student and pit crew leader (the latter of which was fortunately a largely obsolete job in 2009.)

In the winter of 2008, we started pre-kickoff classes for many FRC subjects, several of which I taught. I also serve as an occasional VEX junior mentor and very occasional teacher of the Enabling Mentors VEX programming sessions.

As the team's representative in 2008, I also had the wonderful opportunity to help start a JFLL club at Sugartown Elementary School in the nearby Great Valley School District.

By a series of flukes of attendance, I also became the main robot operator (as opposed to driver) in the 2007-2009 seasons and the chief welder in 2009. By deliberate stubbornness, I also joined the pit crew in 2007, learning more and more until eventually leading the crew in the 2008 post-season.

I'm currently at Penn State - University Park, where I'm a Schreyer Honors College Scholar (<2% of all PSU undergraduates) and mechanical engineering major with minors in engineering mechanics and military studies (AFROTC).