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The 2010 (Breakaway) is my first season as an FRC mentor. I commute weekly between Downingtown and State College by bus (roughly 3.5 hours). When at DEC, I teach, supervise, and coordinate mechanical design, prototyping, welding, fabrication, and assembly.
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The 2010 (Breakaway) is my first season as an FRC mentor. During the build season, I commuted weekly between Downingtown and State College by bus (roughly 3.5 hours), logging 176 hours before ship. When at DEC, I teach, supervise, and coordinate mechanical design, prototyping, welding, fabrication, and assembly. During the [[DEWBOT VI Finger Lakes Regional | Finger Lakes Regional]], I worked as a pit mentor and occasional coach, and created the design handout and poster files as well as editing the slide show video.
  
 
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=Sub-Team Membership=

Revision as of 16:12, 9 March 2010

I was a student on Team 1640 from 2007 (Rack 'n Roll) until I graduated from Downingtown East in 2009. I now commute weekly from Penn State Main to serve as a mentor during the 2010 build season.

Years as a Student

I was the captain-manager of FRC Team 1640 for the 2008 (Overdrive) and 2009 (Lunacy) seasons, until I handed off the position to Carly McKown before graduating from Downingtown High School East Campus in June of 2009. I took the position 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 (now a separate department), paperwork-doer, question-answerer, scheduler and organizer, finance officer (also separate department now), etc. I was also the first student member of the Steering Committee and Design Team in my capacities as captain and lead mechanical student, respectively.

In the 2009 season, I became the first student member of the design team (largely thanks to Clem McKown's mass emails), a position we have begun to expand for other students in the 2010 season. This experience enhanced my ability to serve the team's lead mechanical student and pit crew leader--the latter fortunately mostly obsolete in 2009. (The judges also seemed to like that I had that knowledge.)

In the winter of 2008, Clem McKown, Foster Schucker, and I started organizing 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 (second 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.

Years as a Mentor

The 2010 (Breakaway) is my first season as an FRC mentor. During the build season, I commuted weekly between Downingtown and State College by bus (roughly 3.5 hours), logging 176 hours before ship. When at DEC, I teach, supervise, and coordinate mechanical design, prototyping, welding, fabrication, and assembly. During the Finger Lakes Regional, I worked as a pit mentor and occasional coach, and created the design handout and poster files as well as editing the slide show video.

Sub-Team Membership

The team has restructured (or perhaps just "structured") several times in my tenure, but I am/was a member of the following sub-teams throughout the years (in order of precedence, notice the evolution):
DEWBOT III Mechanical (Drive and Arm) Team (student)
DEWBOT III Pit Crew (student)
DEWBOT III Drive Team (operator)
DEWBOT III Scouting/Tactical Team (operator)

DEWBOT IV Managerial Team (captain-manager)
DEWBOT IV Mechanical (Drive and Catapult) Team (student co-leader)
DEWBOT IV Pit Crew (student co-leader)
DEWBOT IV Drive Team (operator)
DEWBOT IV Scouting/Tactical Team (operator)

DEWBOT V Steering Committee (captain-manager)
DEWBOT V Design Team (student leader)
DEWBOT V Mechanical (Drive and Manipulation Systems) Team (student leader)
DEWBOT V Pit Crew (student leader)
DEWBOT V Drive Team (operator, occasional off-season coach)
DEWBOT V Scouting/Tactical team (operator, occasional off-season coach)

DEWBOT VI Mechanical Team (mentor)
...It's amazing how a 3.5 hour commute really cuts into what you can be part of...

Experience

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). I plan on enlisting in the U.S. Air Force during the summer-fall of 2010. I will serve as a structural engineering technician in the 201st RED HORSE (Rapid Deploying Expeditionary Engineers) Squadron of the 193rd Special Operations Wing in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. I am a student member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Places I've Been

United States

Pennsylvania - I live here
Illinois - I was born here
Maryland - Robotics (2009 Annapolis Regional)
Connecticut - Robotics (2008 Hartford Regional)
Massacres - Robotics
Georgia - Military
Vermont - Military
Colorado - Military
New York - Military
Indiana
Florida
New Jersey
Michigan
Texas
North Carolina
South Carolina
Nevada
Washington, D.C.
West Virginia
Virginia
Hawaii
New Mexico
Arizona
Puerto Rico

International

Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad, Tirupati), India
Tamil Nadu (Madras), India
Onatario, Canada
British Columbia (Vancouver), Canada
United Kingdom (London, Hampshire, Devon)
Greece (Athens)


FRC Team 1640