Email Buddies/FIRST Contact Program

[Whippet]

Alright, here goes nothing:

My name is Luis Trueba. I am a three-year veteran of FRC team 3043, and on my second year with team 4301. This is my second year as co-captain, my third year in charge of electrical, and my first year programming. I, along with the rest of my team, attend New Tech Odessa in Odessa, Texas. We are an all-academic college prep high school designed to teach students through Project-Based Learning. Our robotics program was founded as a supplement to that philosophy, and is essentially our school's "sports team" since we lack an athletic program. I am looking forward to the interesting designs brought forth this season, and hope to see you all at the Hub City regional this year.

I can be contacted at 324876@newtechodessa.org
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[Herbblood]

I think this would be interesting!

Hi! My name is Ally. I live in Ny and am a 3 year member of FRC team 3044 OxBE4, I also participated in 2 years of FLL before that. I am a Junior and I adore engineering, I am currently a co-captain of our programming team. Currently I volunteer to mentor our 5 FLL teams as well as our new FTC team. I cannont wait for this years regionals, I hope they're more exciting than last!

I really love robotics, and I am trying to decide between robotic engineering and environmental engineering when I go to college!

I can be contacted at Allykitty77@hotmail.com

[bEdhEd]

My name is Frank Shiner, aka bEdhEd, and I was involved with first since 2009. I started as a sophomore rookie, and graduated in 2012, and still mentor my team, and this is my second year doing so. My mentoring focuses are in computer modeling, fabrication, and drive team. I plan to get a degree in Mathematics for secondary education, and It would be my dream to be able to be a math teacher at Vanden High School, the home of team 701, and mentor my robotics team FOREVER! If not, I could teach at a different school, and mentor an existing team there, or start my own if they lack an FRC team! If I were to start a team, the team name would be "The Pastafarians" and their mascot would be the Flying Spaghetti Monster. At competition as part of their uniform, they would wear red beanies with fake blonde dreadlocks coming out of them to represent noodles, and brown poof balls on top of the hat to represent meatballs, with some googly eyes so their hats look like spaghetti monsters, but at the same time they look like Rastafarians with dreads. THAT WOULD BE SOOO FREAKING CUTE!!! Don't anyone dare steal my idea of the perfect team theme.

Here's my email:

frank_eg.shiner@yahoo.com

[Calvin Hartley]

I'm Calvin. I hail from Grand Rapids Michigan. I started FIRST LEGO League in 2005 and joined FRC 2771 in 2012. This year I'm a senior and helped start FRC 4967. I've been a driver for 2771 for two years as well as fabrication and leadership. This year I am on the Executive Leadership. With 4967 I am more of a student-mentor, helping out with whatever they need when I am available. In addition to robotics I love building LEGO and occasionally attend conventions. You can find me on twitter @CalvinHartley or if you want my email just send me a Personal Message, I just don't want to post it publicly online...

[musicgurl1329]

Hi! I'm Nikki. I was born and raised in New Jersey and am a college student at TCNJ studying Interactive Multimedia. I help mentor FRC 1089, Team Mercury. This is my 8th year in FIRST and plan to stay involve for years to come. If you want to talk just PM me here, find me at competitions and/or tweet me @camillapanda

[thursam]

Hey, my name is Sam and I am a membe of NCFRC Team 3336, the Zimanators. I am the marketing director and public relations representative for my team, so I'm pretty much on CD 24/7 and my phone is my lifeline.

I primarily enjoy reading, writing, and music, but my interests vary.

I rarely check my email, so send me a PM.

[faust1706]

My name is Hunter from 1706 in St Louis, Missouri. This is my fourth year on the team and my third year doing computer vision. If you want to contact me or ask me a question regarding computer vision, just pm me on here.

[Tytus Gerrish]

I'm Tytus. in 2001 i joined team 179 with whom i was cited by many to be the best robot driver ever. graduated in 2005.

i jumped right in to the manufacturing industry during high school as a cnc operator.

then i worked as a designer/drafter at Pratt and Whitney while dabbling with community college

i then went to Embry Riddle for a year before running out of money and then going back to work at pratt

in 2012 I founded Protovation. to legitimatize my business of building prototypes
then in april2013 left my job at Pratt to dedicate myself to my business full-time

only recently have i decided to call myself a drop-out as i can now look at what im building for myself and take pride in it.

my email is Tytusg@gmail.com i mentor team 179, inspect robots at events, specialize in fabrication, and am dyslexic and ADHD