Class of 2014 - FIRST Dean's List Finalists

[ghostmachine360]

So, as the Week 1 Regionals are ending, I'm going to start the new thread for the new and incoming class of Dean's List Finalists! It's amazing to see the 39 other members from the 4 classes of winners previous (Classes of '10, '11, '12, '13), and see the individual impacts that each of them have made to their own communities and FIRST.

But, it's not just the 40 that make up the Dean's List as a group.

There have been 400+ deserving students over the past four years that have been designated Dean's List Finalist members for their participation & service within FRC, FIRST as a whole, and their own teams/schools/communities/states/nations. And each one of them have made and are hopefully continuing making a large impact on our culture and generation. So, let's see what happens this year!

If you can, just PM me or post on the thread of the Dean's List students from your individual regionals, and we'll keep a running tally on the thread of the students. Or if you're an avid fan of Twitter like me, tweet when it happens! You can tweet me directly (@iamlegend360); or we could use a hashtag (#itsthedeanslist, maybe?)

Congrats to the incoming class of 2014, and GO FIRST!

-Kyle J., Member of Peachtree & Championship Classes of 2010

P.S.: If you have been accepted to the Dean's List Finalist Class, find us on Facebook and request an invite into the group.

Week 1:

Central Illinois Regional
Alex Kessel - 4256
Thaddeus Hughs - 4213
Palmetto Regional
Alec Kumpf - 1311
Sara Crozier - 281
Alamo Regional
Aarav Singh - 422
Natalia Johnson - 3103
Greater Toronto West Regional
Nathaniel Milani - 1241
Ronika Makkar - 1241
Inland Empire Regional
Anthony Stuart - 4201
Dylan McNamara - 3925

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Week 2:

Northern Lights Regional:
Melissa Daniels - 2826
Ellen Aiken -2491
Arkansas Regional:
Courtney Crawford - 16
Isabel Lloyd - 1939
Israel Regional:
Rafael Sherbu-Cohen - 3316
Re'em Shenava - 4784
San Diego Regional:
Kian Sheik - 3128
Camille Considine - 2485
Crossroads Regional:
Lucas Schneider - 1018
Kathryn Sample - 1108
Lake Superior Regional:
Madelein Logeais - 2177
Rit Bezbaruah - 4818
Greater Toronto East Regional:
Brennan Bibic - 4476
Darby Watterworth - 781
Hub City Regional:
Michael Keim - 2468
Maricarmen Del Toro - 4063
Central Valley Regional:
Elias Avila - 1323
Callie Carbajal - 1671

Week 1:

Central Illinois Regional
Alex Kessel - 4256
Thaddeus Hughs - 4213
Palmetto Regional
Alec Kumpf - 1311
Sara Crozier - 281
Alamo Regional
Aarav Singh - 422
Natalia Johnson - 3103
Greater Toronto West Regional
Nathaniel Milani - 1241
Ronika Makkar - 1241
Inland Empire Regional
Anthony Stuart - 4201
Dylan McNamara - 3925

[Cynette]

Did anyone make a list for the rest of the weeks? I'm looking for a list of all of the 2014 Dean's List Finalists and "search" has not been friendly to me today!

[Christopher149]

Originally Posted by Cynette

Did anyone make a list for the rest of the weeks? I'm looking for a list of all of the 2014 Dean's List Finalists and "search" has not been friendly to me today!

It won't be fast, but using http://frclinks.frclinks.com/, type e/a/EVENTCODE for each event, and search for "FIRST Dean's List Finalist" on the page. The event codes are listed on the page (example Finger Lakes is 'nyro')

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by Christopher149

It won't be fast, but using http://frclinks.frclinks.com/, type e/a/EVENTCODE for each event, and search for "FIRST Dean's List Finalist" on the page. The event codes are listed on the page (example Finger Lakes is 'nyro')

That's what I was trying to avoid doing! Usually someone is on top of that!

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Cynette

That's what I was trying to avoid doing! Usually someone is on top of that!

Wrote up a script to do it. Please correct any mistakes you see.

Western Canada
Gabrielle Genereux from 2994
Connor Sparling from 1334

Arkansas
Isabel Lloyd from 1939
Courtney Crawford from 16

Arizona
Diserae Sanders from 842
Kinney Anderson from 2486

Los Angeles
Jocelyne Perfomo from 207
Ryan Gulland from 294

Central Valley
Elias Avila from 1323
Callie Carbajal from 1671

Sacramento
Jordin Fong from 4498
Leah Green from 701

Inland Empire
Anthony Stuart from 4201
Dylan McNamara from 3925

San Diego
Camille Considine from 2485
Kian Sheik from 3128

Silicon Valley
Rahul Iyer from 846
Christopher Leeger from 3256

Colorado
Kip Stahlecker from 3562
Ivan France from 649

Greater DC
Harrison Zheng from 449
Ben Robson from 1885

South Florida
Jade Zsiros from 180
Mayuri Viswanathan from 2383

Orlando
Sebastian Lopez-Cot from 79
Courtney Roberts from 1592

Peachtree
Emily Chu from 2415
Alex Bassett from 2974

Hawaii
Amy Low from 3880
James McArthur from 3132

Midwest
Jacqueline Puschmann from 4645
Arpan Rall from 3061

Central Illinois
Alex Kessel from 4256
Thaddeus Hughs from 4213

Crossroads
Kathryn Sample from 1108
Lucas Schneider from 1018

Boilermaker
Jacob Swiezy from 868
Alex Schutte from 1529

Israel
Rafael Sherbu Cohen from 3316
Ram Tausi from 4784

Bayou
Widni Widmeier from 3337
Alexander Lew from 1912

Chesapeake
Michelle Arnold from 329
Tom Bialick from 2537

Michigan FRC State Championship
Tristan Bressler from 4395
Ben Darnell from 66
David Earle from 830
Samantha Karagilis from 548
Sean Koster from 141
Sydney Micklas from 245
Camron Razdar from 27
Felicia Wallace from 3770

Lake Superior
Rit Bezbaruah from 4818
Madelein Logeais from 2177

Northern Lights
Melissa Daniels from 2826
Ellen Aiken from 2491

Minnesota 10000 Lakes
Logan Mildenberger
Emelia Skagen from 2500

Minnesota North Star
Brendan Boyle from 3926
Ines Siepmann from 2175

Greater Kansas City
Jordan Burklund from 4646
Cameron Lerch from 1986

St. Louis
Garrett Johnson from 3284
Brandon Sanders from 1444

Mid-Atlantic Robotics FRC Region Championship
Theresa Bugay from 3142
Michael Foley from 1923
Wern Hensgen from 225
Ingrid Rumbaugh from 4460

Mexico City
Carlos Mendizabal from 3478
Angel Torres from 4735

North Carolina
Matt Gorton from 1533
Precious Siddiquee from 375

New England FRC Region Championship
David Gray from 1519
Emily Freise from 811
Manisha Rajaghatta from 1100
Samuel Creighton from 2084
Amber Powers from 228
Tyler Fleig from 78

Las Vegas
Mason Scott
Taylor Fritz

SBPLI Long Island
Justin Greene from 3624
Thomas Ciravolo from 2161

New York City
Mitchel Radhuber from 4122
Theodore Kim from 5123

Finger Lakes
Peter Carosa from 2228
Ryan Driscoll from 378

New York Tech Valley
Bethany Angeliu from 20
Chase Thomas from 4203

Buckeye
Michael Primerano from 1507
Sophie Halter from 4611

Oklahoma
Adam Click from 2352
Lauren Pudvan from 2410

North Bay
Alex Churcher from 1305
Joey Lindon from 4069

Greater Toronto East
Darby Watterworth from 781
Brennan Bibic from 4476

Greater Toronto West
Nathaniel Milani from 1241
Ronika Makkar from 1241

Waterloo
Laura Lee from 771
Krysta Peralto from 3161

Windsor Essex Great Lakes
Graeme Crawley from 1114
Jaeleen Koscielski from 772

Greater Pittsburgh
Simran from 3504
Sylvie Lee from 3504

Autodesk FRC Championship
Christopher Wohlwend from 997
Eduadaro Torres from 3574
Christine Chappelle from 4131
Kayanne Grubb from 2907
Ken Dong from 488
Bryce Croucher from 2471

Festival de Robotique FRC a Montreal
Pierrick Arsenault from 3996
Rohit Dhar from 3386

Palmetto
Alec Kumpf from 1311
Sara Crozier from 281

Smoky Mountains
Emily Raque from 2614
James Birchfield from 2856

Dallas
Cristian Aguirre from 704
Annie Stowers from 3997

Lone Star
Ecko Crandall from 2936
David Gros from 624

Hub City
Michael Keim from 2468
Maricarmen from 4063

Alamo
Aarav Singh from 422
Natalia Johnson from 3103

Virginia
Becky Thompson from 1137
Sarah Selim from 2363

Wisconsin
Aaron Sonnemann from 537
Chris Welker from 4786

Queen City
Puneeth Meruva from 4982
Gini Rhodes

Utah
Swetha Sriram
Jakob Thygerson

[Cynette]

AWESOME!!! Thank you!

I noticed that Queen City is missing. Puneeth Meruva (4982) and Gini Rhodes (?)

I only caught that Queen City was missing because I'm looking for Dean's List finalists from Rookie Teams and I knew 4982 had one.

[Jon Stratis]

Which Champs just around the corner, I wanted to let everyone know about our awesome finalist . Here was our nomination for Madeleine at the Lake Superior regional:

Team 2177, The Robettes, nominates Madeleine Logeais for the Dean's List. In her three years on the team, Madeleine has shown the passion, leadership, technical expertise and community outreach indicative of a Dean's List student. She has grown from an excited freshman prototyping at home to a junior who is one of the best captains the team has ever had. Her energy and enthusiasm for all things FIRST know no bounds.

One of our seniors said of Madeleine, "Robots are her life. She's passionate beyond measure and brings vivacity and joy to everything she does." Since she joined the team, her passion inspired her parents to join as mentors and encouraged her 7thgrade sister to join as well. Her participation doesn't stop with team meetings, either. She develops concepts outside of meetings and builds prototypes at home. Despite the weather cancelling two meetings at the start of the season, Madeleine’s perseverance and determination led to the development of a design over Google Hangout, and the creation of a CAD model that prepared the team to start final construction earlier in the season than ever before.

Outside of the team, Madeleine has had a huge impact on the community. She helped to arrange for media coverage of the team at an off-season competition that otherwise would have been ignored. When the team needed new drills, she decided to seek sponsorship from The Original Pink Box, a company that has a line of high-quality pink tools. When they declined to partner with the team, Madeleine persevered and led the team to enter a video contest for the company. After posting a high quality video to the company’s Facebook page explaining FIRST, FRC and our team, they reached out to us and invited us to send them a wish-list of products, resulting in a donation of over $1000 worth of equipment.

Madeleine has had an impact within FIRST as well. She helped to start an FLL program in the lower school last year, and has proven herself to be a dedicated mentor, helping that team to earn the Core Values award at an event last fall. In addition to her work with FLL, Madeleine has used any opportunity to help out the greater FRC community. Last fall she helped lead the team in our efforts as one of nine FRC teams participating in the Alpha Test program for the new control system. After fitting last year’s robot with the new system, Madeleine represented the team in New Hampshire during the Alpha Test weekend. She later presented our experience to other Minnesota teams at MN SPLASH to prepare them for the new system.

Madeleine has shown great technical expertise and inquisitiveness over the past three years. As a rookie, she developed more design concepts than any other students, and even built a prototype at home. In her second year, she took on the role of design lead for a multi-jointed arm, a type of mechanism the team had never previously attempted. The arm was both stable and reliable, enabling a 3-level climbing and helping to earn the team the highest rank it has ever achieved in competition. This year, she is helping to lead the team in the use of pneumatics, which the team has not used since its rookie year.

Over the past three years, Madeleine has shown that FIRST is much more than an entry on college resumes - it's a way of life. She possesses the energy and passion needed to drive an already successful team to new heights. She has been a leader on the team every year, and was the first student to fill a new “junior captain” position. She has some of the strongest technical ability we have ever seen in a student, and combines that with community outreach both larger and more varied than some entire teams manage to do. One of FIRST’s best and brightest, she has both the capability and desire to give back to the program for years to come. She is a role model for other students, she exudes the spirit of FIRST, and her technical ability is unparalleled – Madeleine Logeais deserves this award.

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Cynette

AWESOME!!! Thank you!

I noticed that Queen City is missing. Puneeth Meruva (4982) and Gini Rhodes (?)

I only caught that Queen City was missing because I'm looking for Dean's List finalists from Rookie Teams and I knew 4982 had one.

Threw an error on the no team #, skipped right over the event, was missing Utah for the same reason. Added both in now.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Basel A

Boilermaker
Jacob Swiezy from 868
Alex Shutte from 1529

Basel, thanks for compiling this information.

For some reason, Alex Schutte's name is misspelled on many DLF items. I hope they get his name corrected in time for the Big Show.

[ratdude747]

Originally Posted by Cynette

AWESOME!!! Thank you!

I noticed that Queen City is missing. Puneeth Meruva (4982) and Gini Rhodes (?)

I only caught that Queen City was missing because I'm looking for Dean's List finalists from Rookie Teams and I knew 4982 had one.

Better late than never, but Gini is from 2783.