Coordinators

The coordinators plan and organize the event over the summer before pre-orientation begins. If the lab burns down due to freshmen negligence, they take the heat for it.

Diandra Drago
Course 6 - junior
Raised by misguided Aztecs living on the edge of Greenland, Diandra's been known to perform spiritual circuit dances to fix faulty connections.

Ben Peters
Course 2 - junior
Ben was born on the site of a Michael Bay film, between explosion #74 and CGI insertion #43.

Mentors

A mentor is assigned to each group of 4 to help them assemble their SoccerBots, as well as to provide insight and experience on what it takes to be an MIT student

Tyrel Waagen
Course 2 - junior
Tyrel can bench 150 pounds of rock, but not 150 pounds of feather.

Mitch Kelley
Course 2 - junior
Mitch, now fortified with extra grrrr!

Ryan Morrow
Course 2 - senior
Ryan once saved the world from a robotic overlord. But then he came to MIT and realized that wasn't such a big deal

Cody Rebholz
Course 2 - senior
Cody is tiny! Be careful not to step on him when you're working in lab.

Emily Houston
Course 2 - senior
Emily is a world-class marksmen on the MIT pistol team. She shot down many a rogue robot from the other side of the Infinite Corridor. Of all the profiles, this one's actually true

Laura Schuhrke
Course 2 - junior
Bends sheet metal through sheer willpower.

Andrea Blakemore
Course 2 - junior
Stranded on a deserted island in the winter of '76, Andrea fashioned a robot out of palm leaves and sea turtle sweat to call for help.

Mindy Eng
Course 2 - senior
No mechanical engineering problem can withstand the brute force of Mindy's fury

Run-time Crew

The proud and overworked members of the run-time crew are the people who work behind the scenes to make sure that everything runs smoothly. The list of people will be updated as the program date approaches.

  • Ray Ma (2008 co-coordinator)
  • Long Lam (2008 co-coordinator)
  • Steven Lam
  • Ian Fischer
  • Adrian Melia
  • Elizabeth Levin
  • Yan Zhu
  • Ty Lin
  • Debbie Yee
  • Becca Hung
  • Marcel Thomas
  • Ana Escalante
  • Samantha Powers
  • Theresa Gomez
  • Omar Abudayyeh
  • Camille McAvoy
  • Reguli Granger
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