A picture of a Cougar mixed with gears and the words; Cougartech FIRST Team 2228

Members

Captains

Jackson

Technical Director
11
2
Xi
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Sierra

Team Captain
12
2
I enjoy softball, playing video games, and especially, I love naps!

Talos
I joined because I had many friends and peers in robotics.

Playing softball at a D1 or D2 level (I'm committed D3 a Community College right now) and making more friends at robotics competitions this year!

Zaid

Vice Captan
12
2
Soccer, Basketball, Scouting for robotics, play video game and have fun with friends

Xi
I like to work with my hand and wanted to learn how to program/practice more and I found out that CougarTech could provide this while being safe.

To become a computer engineer and to enter MIT.

Drew

Operations Director
12
2
Writing, gaming

Opportunity
My friends pressured me for years to join and I did when I got the chance!

To be an author

Brianna

Project Director
12
4
Select Choir, Playing Guitar, Music Production, Soccer, Softball, Track and Field

Minotaur or EV3RSTORM
I love robotics and I was on the team at my old school.

Biomedical engineering/pharmacy school

Drafting

Nick

Member
11
2
Card, board, and video games

Wall-E
I did Lego robotics club in the middle school and when I heard that there was robotics here I was interested

Continue contributing to the team

Caedan

Member
12
2
Video Games, Scouts, drawing.

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To have fun and to be apart of a team.

Still thinking on that.

Joseph

Member
11
1
Rock climbing, Nordic, Cross country

xi
get into college

Timothy

Member
11
1
Scouts basketball

Wall-E
Perr presure

Becoming a busneiss owner

Electrical

Sydney

Subteam Lead
12
4
Downhill skiing, video editing, 4-H

Wall-E
I went to an open house and really liked the team.

Graduate from Kent State University for Digital Media Production.

Giles

Member
10
2
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Baymax
I like robots.

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Gabe

Member
10
1
Sports

Baymax
I've just always found an interest in robots

Going to RIT

Caleb

Member
9
1
Being an absolute baller, and skiing

Bender
To make robot go.

Survive Spanish 3

Elayna

Member
10
1
Theater, Soccer

Fender Pinwheeler
Peer pressure from my greatest most wonderful friend ever

Survive

Perry

Member
11
1

Sydney

Member
10
1
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Mechanical

Maegan

Member
12
3
Music

R2-D2
Peer pressure

Make a difference

Jacob

Member
11
3
Skiing, scouts

Xi
Heard of it through lego robotics.

College

Clara

Member
10
1
i like to bake and crochet.

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Bridgette

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Bridgette

Subteam Lead
10
2
I am in a lot of clubs and I also enjoy baking from time to time.

Perseverance Rover
I had a sibling that was in robotics.

Not to die and to go to college.

Arielle

Member
10
1
Guitar, Viola, FTC

K-9
I've always wanted to be part of a robotics team, so when I heard about this one I had to join

I want to go to a good college for mechanics engineering

Lita

Member
9
1
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Dibyansi

Member
10
1

Ethan

Member
9
1
Harassing my brother and video games

Terminator
My brother was here

Not a single clue

Gavin

Member
9
1
Building things

BB-8
Open House and Family

Not 100% Sure Yet

Jubei

Member
11
1

Sam

Member
9
1

Programming

Gina

Member
12
3
video games, musical theatre, other music (various instruments and singing), dungeons and dragons, weight lifting

KAY/O (from Valorant although I don't play as him)
peer pressure from Ellie ever since my childhood

becoming a game developer

Alex

Member
10
1
Troop 10 Boy Scouts, Math Club

Xi
I wanted to get more experience with programming

Possibly RIT for something based around IT

Lachlan

Member
11
2
Esports, Valorant, Drone Strikes, Logistical Strategy Games

Skynet
I needed something to get into collage

Student-Debt

Nix

Subteam Lead
11
3
Reading, Cosplay, Caring for Animals, gsa

Debra-bot
Had been part of FIRST for 6 years on FLL and wanted to continue in high school.

Prosthetist

Kealyn

Member
10
1
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Safety

Abby

Safety Captain
9
1
Unified basketball, safety, baby-sitting

The claw from toys story
family relations

Finance

Michael

Subteam Lead
12
1
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Russ
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Yousef

Member
12
1
Soccer, Basketball and Xbox.

Russ
I would like to major in engineering and i feel like this would get me a feel for it.

Get into my dream college, MIT.

James

Member
12
1
Play chess and video games

Baymax
I thought it would be fun!

Attend college and major in game design or computer science

Alex

Member
9
1

Media and Design

Ash

Member
10
2
Volleyball, Art, Making music :)

Opportunity (there's a movie on it called Good Night Oppy)
I thought it would be a fun activity to do while having free time in the rest of my year (inspired me to want to go into STEM)

going into STEM or something to do with astronomy

Max

Member
9
1
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Tali

Member
9
1
I enjoy reading

Grumbot
My brother was on the team, and my friends were going to join

I would like to be a vet

Mady

Member
9
1
Play tennis, DnD

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peer pressure

marine bioscientist

Keara

Member
11
1
Playing the Saxophone

Wall-E
The rest of my family does robotics

Noa

Member
9
1

Supplementary

Cameron

Subteam Lead
12
4
Playing with pets, video games & Staying Active

Talos
Peers and sounded interesting

To have a seven-figure salary and be successful

Website and Social Media

Christopher

Subteam Lead
11
2
I love making JavaScript programs, CSS animations, and most of all; Playing Video Games!

Wall-E
Working on the website and improving my knowledge!

I might take a job in IT!

Technical Mentors

Richard Nashburn

10
Retire and move south.

Working with the students has been incredibly rewarding. Seeing the kids learn new skills and being challenged to think in new ways. I especially enjoy seeing students who do not think that they can perform a task overcoming their doubts.

Bob Carter

Mechanical

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Brian Kaufman

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1
Tinkering, Judo, Canoe, Wilderness Camping

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Enjoy being around young people and sharing learning experiences

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Does more money make the sky any more blue or the meat any more tender

Brian Cowburn

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5
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Xi
I love teaching robotics!

Finish college and get a cool job!

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Dan Farnam

Motors, Controls, Programming, Networking, Safety

8
scouting

BB8
The rest of my family were all members so I decided to join in the fun and bring my technical knowledge with me

See my kids grow up and go to college then I can retire and travel

An invaluable step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual

Erik VanBork

Fluid systems, embedded controls, lean manufacturing.

9
Boy scouts

The Mars rover Opportunity
My children joined the team and I started Mentoring. They've graduated (one's an EE and the other is an ME) and I just hang around for the fun.

To help students find their life ambition through doing.

The fewer moving parts, the better.

Gary Stottler

Mechanical Engineering, Car Repair

8
School Board

R2D2
I love building things and teaching others to build.

Help the team win competitions, see students learn skills and confidence.

Never be afraid to take things apart!

Jeff Lange

Software

5
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Inspiration
Sharing my experience and joy of development with students

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Jim Van Dick

Software design/development

1
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c3po
My son joined and I want to help and learn

Learn more about everything related to Cougar Tech and continue to help out in any way possible

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Ken Symons

Programming

4
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R2D2
My son joined so I thought I would too.

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Simple solutions are the best solutions

Michael Guglielmo

Electrical, Scouting, Industrial Engineering

10
Theta

Richard Versluys

Control systems, servers, SCADA, Black-Belt certified.

9
DATA

Tim Heywood

6
See Alex join the team!!!

Zachary DuBois

Software development

7
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Be challenged with different development tasks

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Marketing Mentors

Bonnie Coddington

Volleyball official

16
Scouting

R2D2
Love working with kids. After spending 3 years with Legos, I wanted more!

Send my kids to the college of their choice so they can support me in my retirement.

I love working with the kids. I enjoy watching them grow, learn from the experiences, and become young adults with a focus. The biggest reward for me is seeing the students proud and excited with their accomplishments.

Dan Albin

Woodworking, HTML, CSS, ASP, Javascript, .NET, Philosophy

6
Raising children

Claudia tricked me and it sounded like fun

Raise 2 successful women

It's great to see how much can be accomplished when a bunch of high school students get together and work hard. I am constantly impressed with their work effort and level of skill. This program is a great head start for some very bright kids.

Geoffrey Gretton

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10
Decorated ceramics

Support my kid.

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Julie Farnam

9
Jarvis
You guys were having too much fun without me, and my kids were on the team

Travel

Sponsors

GM Xerox Orolia Thermo Fisher Scientific SouthCo Han-Tek Pittsford Federal Credit Union Precise tool Weiders Stottler Development LLC Day Automation Ruck Wegmans Second Avenue