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About Us

Coach: Ben Pochop

 

RPM Executive Board:

President: Mark Crusoe

Vice President: Bernadette Aldrich

Secretary: Adrienne Palesi

Financial Secretary: Jenny Rosell

Treasurer: Tony Pirondini

Student Leadership

Director of Operations: Devina Velasquez

Engineering Director: William Hulett 

Secretary: Sarah Bergendahl

Business Manager: Derek Lance

Outreach Manager: Sara Wolf 

Awards Manager: Tyus Green

Media Manager: Abigail Young  

 

Engineering Committee Managers

Design: Alvin Vo

Electrical: Tyus Green

Mechanical: Aaron Lance

Robot Programming: Darius Azure 

App Programming: Sarah Bergendahl

The Team (55)

Seniors(9)

Darius Azure

Tyler Barber

Aaron Lance

Blake Miles

Emmanuel Mora

Vincenzo Palesi

Robbie Rosell

Devina Velasquez

Alvin Vo

Juniors (13)

Sarah Bergendahl

Kaylani Dacanay*

Kiana Dumdumaya

Tyus Green

Will Hulett

Roberto Ibarra*

Taylor Jaseph

Tara Khanna

Anthony Mendoza

Evan Schramm

Nicolas Shallock

Declan Uquillas

Tamia Valledor

Sophmores(18)

Keiran Baker

Haleigh Carlton

Hannah Carlton

Christina Credo*

Arjun Gill*

Rio Karr*

Derek Lance

Evan Lombera*

Aaron Mundi*

Damondre Pierre*

Christian Perez

Jason Platte

Jeanine Renoblas*

Darren Ruiz

Anek Sahota

Biren Sohal*

Sara Wolf

Abigail Young

Freshman(15)

Michael Apollo*

Alex Burghardt*

Brayden Dean*

Emily Ede*

Aidan Guerra*

Hunter Hassler*

Chichi Iheanacho*

Kailey Mills*

Miles Petty*

Mitchell Provencher*

Vincent Romero*

Kenyon Schepter*

Maya Swift*

Tyler Westfahl*

*Rookies (25)

               At our school, we have 4 classes related to robotics: Engineering Technology (ET), Automation Engineering (AE), AP Computer Science (CS), and AP Computer Science Principles (CSP). Incoming freshman can take the Intro to Engineering Technology class or Engineering Technology 1. It is not required to take the class to be on the team, they just have to meet the hours requirement for the first semester. The next year, as sophomores, they can take the Engineering Technology 2 class. Students who have taken ET 1 & 2 can take either AE, CSP, CS, or ET 3 their junior and senior years.

               RPM stands for Robotics, Parents, and Mentors. They meet every second Monday of the month to maintain management of our team. Throughout the year, parents help the team with fundraising: car washes, recycling, raffle ticket sales, and Bingo. During build season, parents help with carpooling and catering and are reimbursed through RPM funds. Parents also help decide which regionals we should compete in and plan the hotels, flight tickets, etc. ahead of time.

     In addition to our efforts within our team, we are extremely dedicated to our presence in our community. We love to spread our enthusiasm as much as we can, bettering those around us as they better us in turn. We achieve this through many varied projects and relationships, all for the furthering of STEM, such as:

  - Mentoring VEX teams at Golden West Middle School and our school

 - Mentoring VEX IQ at Foxboro, Center, Travis, Cambridge, and Scandia Elementary            Schools

 - Helping out with local programs, such as Coastal Clean Up or Relay for Life 

- Hosting VEX competitions at Vanden High School and Golden West Middle School 

- Hosting VEX IQ Scrimmages & Competitions 

- Demonstrating our robots, at school rallies, homecoming week, football games, and other district school-wide events

- Reaching out to our sponsors, such as demonstrating our robots at Genentech's Bring Your Kid to work day 

Robotic Classes
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