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Krista and Kenyan were Dallas East Finalist

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Hey guys, go check out the new website for the FIRST Dean's List at http://www.itsthedeanslist.wordpress.com

We've been slowly making a website/blog for the students of the FRC Dean's List for general information, as well as the people new to the Dean's List (parents, schools, teams, college admissions officers). I'll be posting up the stuff on there about the current list of finalists, as well as working on posting about the repeat status of individual DL students and teams. Go check it out, if you have time! :D

And now...........

Fully updated (no repeat status just yet.)

Week 5 Regionals:
SBPLI Long Island Regional:
Emily Stern - 353
Josh Graber- 2638

Oklahoma Regional:
Carolyn Click - 2352
John Bolin - 2435

Dallas West Regional:
Garrett Witowski - 2468
Matthew Ricks - 704

Dallas East Regional:
Krista Petty - 3350
Kenyan Burnham - 1817

Greater Toronto West Regional:
Rameesha Qazi - 1241
Sultan Khan - 5367

Minnesota North Star Regional:
Jacob Corway - 3278
Brendan Urke - 3691

Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional:
Caleb Sykes - 2052
Aaron Redepenning - 3524

South Florida Regional:
Katie Austin - 1902
Jessie Poen - 1557

Washington DC Regional:
Abigail Ackerman - ?
Rishabh Simhal - ?

Northeast Utilities FIRST Connecticut Regional:
Domenic Bozzuto - 1071
David Powers - 228

Silicon Valley Regional:
Kunal Mehta - 604
Eric Bakan - 254

Week 4 Regionals:
Palmetto Regional:
Mandy Turner - 415
Samuel Bowen - 281

Wisconsin Regional:
Annalyssa Martin - 2062
Corin Rypkema - 706

Seattle Olympic Regional:
Jacob Ebey - 3574
Gizelle Gaudo - 488

Seattle Cascade Regional:
Jonathan Adamson - 2929
Andrew Isola - 360

Arizona Regional:
John Rangel - 842
Destiny Simpson - 2486

Buckeye Regional:
Samantha Santoscon - 2399
Jessica Greer - 677

St. Louis Regional:
Evan Anderson - 1208
Andrew Amburgey - 1094

Boston Regional:
Sean Halloran - 2084
Oliver Graff - 3780

Hawaii Regional:
Ryan Matsumoto - 2348
Michael Nelson - 2460

Waterloo Regional:
Janelle Taylor - 781
Alex Wilcox - 1305

Colorado Regional:
Jasmine Kemble - 2996
Nicholas Pontius - 399

Midwest Regional:
Jessica Endres -111
Olga Ramos -3186

Week 3 Regionals:
Festival de Robotique FRC a Montreal Regional:
Simon Barrette - 3990
Joseph Bacchard - 2626

Sacremento Regional:
Emily Kellison-Linn - 1868
Kunal Marwaha - 2073

Los Angeles Regional:
James Carr - 3309
Priyana Hannan - 599

Peachtree Regional:
Carlie Schulter - 1311
Blake Hauser - 2415

Boilermaker Regional:
Mary Catherine Bitter - 1732
Adi Ben-Yehoshua - 1501

Bayou Regional:
Casey Edgerton - 418
Rachel Holladay - 1912

Utah Regional:
Caitlin Vitale-Sullivan - 1569
TJ Houze - 4348

Virginia Regional:
Bob Rodi - ?
Rachel Wilbur - 2363

New York City Regional:
Ikechukwu Chu - 3059
Rohit Sharma - 2579

Week 2 Regionals:
Finger Lakes Regional:
Christa Lawniczak - 340
Justin Byers- 1511

WPI Regional:
Brian Nardone - 1100
Alexander Ouellet - 348

Greater Toronto East Regional:
Taylor Nicholson - 1114
Craig Robinson - 1114

Oregon Regional:
Mary Steiner - 1510
Marina Dimitrov - 1540

Lake Superior Regional:
Ben Wiggins - 2846
Abigail Schaefer - 1714

Chesapeake Regional:
Aaron Lantz - 1629
Sagarika Das - 449

Orlando Regional:
Emily Gardner - 3502
Nathaniel Jefferson - 2757

Pittsburgh Regional:
Jaden Barney - 3504
Chase Douglass - 128

Week 1 Regionals:
Greater Kansas City Regional:
Laura Spatz - 1986
Chris Gillespie - 1810

Alamo Regional:
Matthew Blake - 3481
Nathaniel McLauchlan - 2158

Smoky Mountains Regional:
Rhetta Wingert - 2783
Brian Haidet - 451

BAE Granite State Regional:
Amelia Jennings - 1519
Tristan Evarts - 1058

San Diego Regional:
Loren Preciado - 2193
Linda Lam - 812

Israel Regional:
Yarden Saad - 3339
Assaf Saar - 2230

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Dallas West Regional Winner from 2468 is Garrett Witowski, currently showing Witowshi.

Thanks,

Norman Morgan

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Dean's List Winners from South Florida


Katie Austin - 1902 & Jessie Poen - 1557!!!

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My count says that there are going to be 114 Dean's list finalists this year, is this correct?

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Close, I think; I'll check just to make sure.

Also, here's something from Alexander Ouellet, one of the 2011/2012 Dean's List finalists:

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We are so proud of Katie. She is an amazing student, and a joy to have worked with for 6 years. Here is her nominating essay:


Jan 2006 during the first few days of Exploding Bacons Rookies season several mentors were showing prototypes of their manipulators. After the students had left, Katie Austin, one of the students little sisters, tugged on the shirt of a 6ft 6 man she didn't know and told him that his design wouldn't work. He stared at it, then stared at her, then back at it and asked her mom how old she was. “11” her mother replied. “Is she in middle school yet?” he asked. The answer was yes, 6th grade. “Then she is on the team” declared the mentor. “Are you sure?” replied the mom. “Yes,” said the mentor, “she’s right, it won't work. She doesn't know the correct terms to use, but she’s right.” Thus began Katies career with Exploding Bacon and our teams tradition of allowing younger siblings to join giving us our family friendly atmosphere. 6 years later, Katie is now in her second term as the president of Exploding Bacon, and the face of the team.

When Katie began 7th grade, she started an FLL team at her school, the “Bacon Bits.” Katie was a leader on her school’s team for 2 years, heading the team’s Research Award effort, and won a 2nd place trophy at the state championship. She has continued her FLL involvement by mentoring teams and volunteering at competitions.

While on her FLL team, she continued being a full member of 1902. In 8th grade she became a member of our outreach team doing community demos as well as corporate presentations. She has presented in front of representatives of companies such as Lockheed Martin, Electronic Arts, JC Penny, Fluid Power Society, PTC, and BAE Systems. These presentations have lead to donations to the team of over $95,000! In fact, in her 8th grade year Bacon was the first FRC team that reached out to Electronic Arts. Katie and the other team members impressed the company so greatly, they asked us to help coordinate their donation of $5000.00 to 9 teams in the area.

Katie has also been a student ambassador for the North Carolina Regional and at the Orlando Regional for 3 years. She has toured the Mayor of Ocoee and an NC State senator. She has also been a student ambassador at the World Championships in 2010. Last year she volunteered at Champs doing field reset and had the honor of working the Einstien Field.

The epoch of Katie’s outreach efforts was the Learning 2011 event at Walt Disney World. Katie received the opportunity to explain the Ideals of FIRST to Bill Clinton as well as executive business leaders. Dean Kamen invited 2 FRC, 2 FTC, and 2 FLL students to represent FIRST at this event, brining all 6 up on stage during his speech. Later, Dean sat with these students, and asked for their suggestions. “How can we get more people interested in FIRST?” Dean inquired. The group had a brainstorming session, and finally Katie said “ThinkGeek.com is a highly popular website in the engineering community. They once tweeted about Exploding Bacon, and our website instantly had so much traffic that the sever crashed.” Dean, impressed with Katie’s creativity, asked his assistant to note that FIRST needs to get in touch with ThinkGeek.com.

Katie has participated in over 200 outreach events in the last 7 years. This year she led the team’s Exploding Science Outreach Project. Four 1.5 hour modules of hands on experiments in Chemistry, Physics, Simple Machines and Wind Power. Bacon visits afterschool programs and can teach up to 30 3rd through 5th graders per time. This leadership gives her the exceptional ability to be one of the Chairman’s Award presenters for three straight years.

While she forgoes the ability to drive the robot in preference of being a Chairman’s presenter, she is still a high achieving member of the mechanical design team. She is currently enrolled in advanced classes at Winter Park High School while dual enrolling at Valencia College. Katie aspires to follow her grandfather’s footsteps, and become an aerospace engineer. She has applied to UF and UCF but her top choice is Embry Riddle Aeronautics University, and is feverishly filling out scholarships to be able to afford the $40,000 per year tuition. She is still applying to other institutions, and her final decision will rest upon which opportunity will have the greatest impact on her life and her goal to someday work in the space program.

She has been a force on Exploding Bacon from the very first regional when a judge visiting the pit commented on her being such a cute little thing. The student replied “Hello, my name is Katie, I’m 12. What would you like to know about my robot?” To the judge’s amazement, this young girl proceeded to explain technical aspects, and answer complicated questions.

After graduation, Katie’s involvement in FIRST will not cease. As a college student she plans to continue mentor a local team. Ultimately, she aspires to be a leader in the engineering field, Katie will someday be the prototype that future FIRST students will try to emulate.

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This is quite a moving essay. Thank you for sharing this with us.

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North Carolina Regional
David Gomez 3196
Annalise Wenig 2655

I am so proud of my little sister!!!!! She does A TON for her team!

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Congrats to the new members of the Dean's List group from Week 6!

Week 6 Regionals:

Queen City Regional:
Ray Frank - 144
Danielle Gehron - 3138

North Carolina Regional:
David Gomez - 3196
Annalise Wenig - 2655

Lone Star Regional:
Elizabeth Walters - 624
Allison Rich - 2881

Spokane Regional:
Brett Menzies - 2865
Sydney Miller - 1983

Central Valley Regional:
Grace Douglass - 3512
Alexander O'Brien - 4135

Las Vegas Regional:
Geoffrey Angle - 60
Jacob Copus - 585

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Congratulations Sydney!

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Spelling Check:

Lone Star Regional:
Elizabeth WATERS - 624
Allison Rich - 2881

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Team Number Check:

Greater Toronto West Regional:
Rameesha Qazi - 1241
Sultan Khan - *4367*

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So um...awkward fact. My last name's Santoscoy. They kind of butchered it >.<

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That is really awkward.......

Welp, that's why I asked for corrections; because things like this happen with the usfirst.org Event Results. Thank you so much for telling me; I'll get it fixed right away on CD & the "it's the dean's list." website!