FIRST For Dummies

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Chap 2. Florida

Team 79- 5 time Florida regional chairmans award winners- they are GP, Look no further then these guys if you need to look at a great team model.

John Burke- Co founder of team 108, Mission Mayhem director; This man stays behind the scenes and keeps on inspiring other everyday.

Arefin Bari- Well know announcer and Florida FIRST person, founder of mission Mayhem-Florida offseason event, team 108 alumni and 1345 head robot designer. Finally Arefin is on the Fl regional planning committee.

David Ellich- Coach, founder of team 1251, Mission Mayhem field boss, always busy keeping things running smoothly. Another great guy who is always busy behind the scenes making things work.

Team 108- Sigmacats are one of the oldest teams in Florida as well as the founders of the Sigmacat opponent analysis program aka SOAP108.

Dan Quiggle- Team 179 head engineering mentor. Helpful to everyone as far as deisgn and always answers questions. He is truly a great mentor and example for other mentors to follow. Also has designed the well know Hexagon shape frame Swampthing is known for.

Team 233- The original Pink team there robots are more anticipated by FIRSTERS then Paris Hilton is by paparazzi. They serve as a role model team and are always trying to help whenever possible. There hard work paid off as they made a great run all the way to Einstein this year against the best of the best.

Dan Richardson-4th year mechanical engineering student at UCF is one of the lead deisgners on 1902 and everyone knows him as DJ Dan at Mayhem or announcer Dan from the Florida reigonal. His door is always open and he always has time for questions and to help out other teams as well as his own.

Team 1902- Exploding Bacon is a new team but there name is all ready well known. There trophy case explains why. Thats just part of though on any given Sunday or Saturday you can see Exploding Bacon doing demos or volunteering in there community. Did I mention they have a list of all star Florida mentors.

George Wallace- Team 180 SPAM alumni, is now an educator and drive coach on team 1902. He has been around in Florida working with FIRST teams for what seems like forever, George is a proud cofounder of Exploding Bacon. George also helps out with the mission mayhem competition as a announcer.

Mike Walker- A proud alumni of team 21 Commbatt,help start the world famous 1902. He is also started working with the Fl regional committee as the co volunteer coordinator at the Florida regional and Mission Mayhem helping both events to run smoothly.

Wendy Austin- Wendy is the team mom of EVERY Florida team, she is also on the regional planning.Wendy keeps 1902 looking good with there logo and shirt design. She is also helpful with coordinating events in the community that the team attends. Finally she always is willing to talk to any firster who has a problem or just needs to talk.

Tytus Gerrish- Tytus is best known as being one of the best drivers to ever touch the flightsticks in FIRST. He is a helpful person, who is a visionary when it comes to designing. As a 179 alumni he is working with the team sponsor and is helping an upcoming team 1889 get there team off the ground with his experience and engineering support.

Warren Bodroux- Team leader on SPAM 180, 2007 WFA award winner at Fl regional, helpful person, long time first sponsor/ supporter, continually inspiring others and always volunteers at the Fl regional with a smile.