What's your Alma Mater?
 

As a college advisor from Purdue on Team 461, I was wondering where did the mentors on other teams graduate from? List your name, team # and alma mater!

Raj Daftuar
Team 461 Westside Boiler Invasion
International Academy, Bloomfield Hills MI (HS, Team 469)
Purdue University persuing BSEE

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Mark McLeod
University of Virginia (Comp Sci)
Team 358/Team 1468

(Glad you didn't ask when:) )

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Sara Reffler
Rutgers University
Team Mercury (1089) / Highstown High School

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Chris Hibner
Team #308 (TRW and Walled Lake Schools - the Monsters)
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (BSME and MSME)

(high school: Alpena High School - Alpena, Michigan)

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Kristin Pugh
Team 891 (Syracuse Research Corp. and Central Tech Vocational Center) - started in 2002
Team 229 (Clarkson University) - 2000 and 2001

high school: Kendall High School, Kendall NY (no FIRST team though :( )

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Brandon Martus.. Team 47
Henry Ford II High School; Utica, Michigan; Class of 1998
University of Detroit Mercy; Detroit, Michigan; Class of 2002; B.S. in Computer Science

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Chris Husmann, PE
University of California, Irvine (UCI, pronunced Ukkey ;) ) BSME
West Torrance High, Torrance CA

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JVN
Team 229 - Division By Zero

Clarkson University, BSME (2005 we hope) - Potsdam, NY

Shenedehowa Central HS (2001) - Clifton Park, NY

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Ryan Curry
Team #30 High Technology HS
Lehigh University (2007) BSME

-Rc

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Amy Przybylinski
Lake Central HS (don't think they have a FIRST team still)
Purdue University, West Lafayette.. BSME '00.
TechnoKats #45

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Shawn T. Lim
Woburn Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Ontario (Team 188)
Kettering University, BS Computer Engineering

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Steve Shade
Team 1111

University of Maryland at College Park BSEE 2003

Parkville High School and Center for Mathematics, Science and Computer Science 1999, FIRST Team 007


Steve

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Amanda M. Morrison

Ball State University, BA English: Rhetoric and Composition (2006?)
Muncie, IN Team 1020

D. E. Gavit High School
Hammond, IN Team 71

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High School:
Enfield High School, Enfield, CT
Team #175 Buzz Robotics

College:
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
BS, Computer Enginnering Technology, 2005 exp.
Team #125, NU-TRONS


What's internesting about my FIRST involvement, is I've never gone to the school that's directly involved with the team. Enfield High and Fermi High are the two high schools in Enfield CT. Although it's Fermi's team, Enfield High was encouraged to participate.
Now in college Northeastern encourages anyone to come by that's willing to help. Last year, I made the 10 minute walk from my WIT dorm to the Northeastern Lab.
This year, I was on co-op in my hometown. To be able to participate I took a week of work off. I stayed at an engineers house (Thanks George) for the last week of build and commuted to Northeastern. I put in about 70 hours during that week of build. Our robot was finally complete at 4am on ship day :D

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David J. Fluck (Nobody can call me David though :p)

Kokomo High School, Kokomo, Indiana (2003)
Team 45, Technokats Robotics Team

Purdue University-Kokomo (Computer Engineering Technology) (20??) ;)
Team 45, Technokats Robotics Team

I'm taking classes at this remote Purdue campus cause its cheaper and then after I get an associates degree I can move to the main campus of Purdue and go for a BS in CmpEET or I can take a few (more like several :p) more years and go for the Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering degree...sitll got plenty of time to figure that out...

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Kris Verdeyen

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (BSEE - 2000)
Terre Haute South Vigo High School (1996)
Both in lovely Terre Haute, IN - my home that I dearly miss.

Neither of these fine schools has a FIRST team. (Hint, hint)

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Aaron R. Lussier

High School:

Nashua High School Class of 2003
Team 151 (WildCards)

College:
...

Heh yea, no college plans as of right now...

Anybody have any suggestions? PM me.

-Aaron

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Allison Kneisler

Graduated From
Troy High school (Class of 2003), Troy MI, Team 226 (TEC CReW Hammerheads)

Currently
Albion College (Class of 2007 hopefully), Numberless ACE: Albion Competitive Engineering

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Went to Rochester's East High school (class of 1985) no FIRST program.
Still attending RIT (Team 73 the Visioneers) should graduate in either the summer or the fall.

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I feel this is a pointless post becuase I'm kindof self-explanatory, but hey, whatever. :)

Jessica A. Boucher

HS: Watertown HS, Class of 2001, Watertown, CT.
College: Babson College, Class of 2005. Though technically everyone at Babson recieves degrees in Business Administration, my focus is corporate strategy.

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Tom Dolan

HS: Middletown High School (Class of 2002)
College: University of Rhode Island (Class of 2006) BSME plus one extra year and hopefully getting an MBA.

I was on 121 my senior year of high school and for the last two years at URI I have been a mentor. This year along with several 121 alumni here at URI we started a Robotics Club that will hopefully someday result in our own FIRST team. :)

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Andy Brockway
Team 716 - Who'sCTEKS

Rensselear Polytechnic Institute - BSME

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Joe Ross

Hope Chapel Academy
Graduated High School 1999
Team 330 - Beachbots

El Camino College
AS Pre-engineering, 2001
Team 330 - Beachbots

Rochester Institute of Technology
BSEE, Expected Fall 2004
Team 340 - GRR
Team 73 - Visioneers
Team 1405 - Finney Falcons

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Kokomo High School, Kokomo, Indiana 2003
Team 45, Technokats Robotics Team

Purdue University
Mechanical Engineering Tech BS - 2007 (hopefully)

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Nashua Seinior High School, Nashua, NH.

BAE SYSTEMS/WILD CARDS 151 01-03

NHTI ( New Hampshire Technical Institute )03-06

Pembroke Academy 134 03/04-??

Working on my Mechanical Engineering Associates Degree

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Greg Ross
Foothill High School, Bakersfield, CA (Before there was even a FIRST)
University of La Verne, La Verne, CA BA, Math

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Purdue BSNE 1984 Go Boilers
Team 195 1998, 1999
Team 394 2000 - 2002
Team 571 2004

I'm sure I'll give it up soon.........

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I'm ALOT older than you all.
Jenny Beatty
Team 007
BSN from Syracuse University (that's a BS in nursing)
MPH (masters in public health) Johns Hopkins
Also, in the university of life skills: the first woman, not married to one of the observers, to live and work on Mt. Washington in NH at the weather observatory; the first class of women to be hired by the forest service as a ranger in the White Mts of NH; and a proud 2 year member of the US Snow Scupture team, representing the US in International competition. :) Lots of valuable skills learned.

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Kokomo High School, Kokomo, Indiana 2003
Team 45, Technokats Robotics Team (1999-2003)

Purdue University
Aviation Administration (ATC) Technology
BS (2007 or 2008)

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Kevin Weiss
Team 308 - the Monsters - TRW / Walled Lake Schools
University of Michigan - Class of '95 - BSME, MSME
Go Blue!

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Kristina Evanouskas
Team 25 -North Brunswick Township HS
Rutgers University - Douglass College 2007 (unless I get kicked out after this semester ;) )

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Peter Matteson
Worcester Polytechic Institute 2002 (WPI, but most of you knew that)
BSME
Team 177
Bobcat Robotics

Also oddly enough I mentor the team in my hometown, South Windsor, CT, at a high school I didn't go to. So yeah I didn't know this program existed when I was in HS. :(

edit: I would also like to add I was an ME at WPI and never even heard of the program at Mass Academy until I was working in the robotics lab as a senior in college.

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Matthew Leese
Parkville High School and Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Science, Baltimore, MD, 2000 (Team 7)

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 2005 (Team 73)

For the curious, I'm on a co-op right now which is why I'm in Southern California.

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Vincent Zotto

Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Connecticut
Major: Industrial Technology
Minor: Computer Networking Technology

FIRST Involvement:

4 Years in High School Team 237
2 Years Independently with assorted FIRST teams

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Nelson Green

Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
B.S. CHE - (2007)

Paola High School, Paola, Kansas
Team 1108 Panther Robotics (2003)

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Anne Bergeron

Georgia Tech BSME May 2004 (finally :))

Ely High School, FL (team 132 or 408 now) 1999

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Thats odd I'm graduate from the academy and I was under the impression that we did all sorts of demos to gain the interest of WPI students. Oh well.
Well heres my info

Graduated H.S.
North High School and Massachusetts Academy of Mathamatics and Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(2003). Yes I have 2 high school diplomas.
Team 190 WPI/ Massacademy Gompeii And the H.E.R.D. 2002 and 2003(mvp 2003)

College:

RPI BSME 2007

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Not a LOT older than all :)
The 50's was a great decade!

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Jestin McCarthy

Manchester Central High School (2002) , Manchester, NH 131 C.H.A.O.S.

University of New Hampshire (2005) , Durham, NH
Applied Business Management

Suffolk University or Northeastern University, Boston, MA???
Marketing

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Patrick Dingle
BS Mechanical Engineering
Cornell University, 2004

And I would love a job :) So if you hear of any openings for mechanical engineering in your area please let me know! prd8@cornell.edu.

Patrick

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Ken Loyd
Team 64
The Gila Monsters

BSEd Kent State University 1972
MEd Kent State university 1974

Okay, so I am older than the combined ages of half the people who have responded to this post.

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Wayne Penn
Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University, 2006

High School
Team 217, the ThunderChickens
Currently
Team 395, 2TrainRobotics
Team 1224, the Pius Princesses

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Robert Burdick

Divine Child High School
Dearborn, MI
"Class of 76"

Still waiting to hit the lotto so I can go back to college and get a degree in physics. Until then, I will have to be satisfied with the U.S. patents I have acquired through the years.

Team 5 "Robocards" Melvindale, MI
7 year Engineer mentor

I sure wish the FIRST program existed when I was in high school.