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Team 207: Walt Disney Imagineering and

Centinela Valley Union High School District

Hawthorne, CA

Richardo Acosta, Josue Arias, Jose Alejo, Nicholas

Atain, Bianca Campos, Adrian Castaneda, Luisiana

Alfaro, Jose Ceja, Xenia Davis, Sean Drury, Chrystian

Bautista, Joeseph Egusquiza, Luis Figueroa, Nary

Guardado, Kimberly Crespin, Brette Hanna, Warren

Meyer, Christian Orozco, Rogelio Paz, Jesus

Marroquin, Liliana Sandoval, William Valverde, Miguel

Varela, Myron DeCloud, Christina Wells, Emely

Morales, Salvador Sandoval, David Torres, Edward

Alfaro, Steve Ferron, Jason Takamoto, Leanne

Haarbauer, Caline Khavarani, Chuck Knight, Lucas

Pacheco, John Depillo, Kyle Depillo, Don Metz, Dee

Murr, Michael Gordon, Ed Memeth

Team 322: General Motors Powertrain, Landaal

Packaging, University of Michigan—Flint, Flint

Community Schools, and GEAR-UP

Flint, MI

Dan Clemons, Kelly Buetow, Dave Buetow, Russ

Perkins, Gary Mueller, Marcus Hunter, Rashawn

Hunter, Brandon Barnes, Willy Strong, Doug Keith

Team 1024: Aircom Manufacturing, Beckman

Coulter, Rolls-Royce Corporation, and

Bernard K. McKenzie Career Center

Indianapolis, IN

Erik Buland, Libby Glass, Matt Swanson, Michael

Long, Anne Schneider, Matt Miller, Tommy Francis,

Jennifer Maberto, Nick Bandy, David Badger, Jake

Gass, Claire Larew, Marc Rhodes, Bill Townsend,

Talyor Chenoweth, Chad Heck, Adam Suchko, Alex

Suchko, Jeffrey Smith, Allison Metzger, Grant Lin,

Jason Zielke, Zach Farr, Andrew DeFeo, Melvin Harris,

Bradley Thomason, Weston Hoskins, Michael Littell,

Michael Schevitz, Ben Nelson, Chris Boyd, Josh

Allanson, Tom Gentry, Zach Herman, Kristin Koch,

Jared Niederhauser, Brett Wolfsie, Gary Valler, Mike

VanVertloo, Bruce Long

Xerox Creativity Award

Team 86: JEA, Johnson & Johnson, VISTAKON,

& Stanton College Preparatory School

Jacksonville, FL

Lisa Lovelace, Todd Lovelace, Dave Vogel, Glenn

Williams, Bill Kearson, Jacob Plicque, Aaron Paulson,

Clifford Newkirk, Trevor Ollar, Alex Brito, Wil Brito,

Jimmy Tomola, Zach Michael, Cory Hester, Lyle Josey,

Thomas Manning, Brandon Ballew, Matt Goldstein,

Scott Manning, Jim Warren, Joachim Hartje, Billy

Herod, Catherine Daas, Brad Paulson, Brian Schubert,

Jean Schubert, Marcus Snyder, Mark McCombs, Kyle

Bivens, Harold Hou, Jeff Edwards, Chris Edwards,

Linda Edwards

Team 293: Bristol-Myers Squibb, MEI, and

Hopewell Valley Central High School

Pennington, NJ

James Andrews, Glen Babecki, Gordon Brooks, John

Delaney, Gale Downey, Joe Knotts, Sky Morehouse,

Sam Ornstein, Joe Nolfo, Harry Peles, Ed Pitrillo, Joe

Sinniger, Mike Thibeault, Mary Yeomans, Manisika

Agaskar, Zac Andrews, Christopher Babecki, Michael

Bolan, Danny Brown, Cole Gargione, Max Gilbert,

Ardres Gonzolez, Bryan Hatch, Simon Healey, Owen

Healy, David Hill, Gus Hubner, Ben Jarrett, Christina

Jaworsky, Han-wei Kautzer, Noah Kershaw, Max

Konig, Peter Krasucki, Sophie Krasucki, Robert

LaPosta, Michael Lewis, Lisa Liu, Amalie McKee, Alex

Melman, Bobby Miller, Bichael Ornstein, Joseph

Patuick, Archana Rachakonda, Ellen Sherwood,

Martin Sherwood, Scot Stilson, Megan Templon, Ben

Van Selas, Alex Yang

Team 330: J&F Machine, NASA-JPL, NASA-

Goddard, Raytheon, and Hope Chapel

Academy

Hermosa Beach, CA

Larry Couch, David Drennon, Matt Driggs, Steve

Eccles, Tom Freitag, Bill Hendry, Chris Husmann,

Michael Palmerino, Ben Roberts, Ric Roberts, Greg

Ross, Joe Ross, Rob Steele, Zach Steele, Jacob

Trimper, Rick Varnum, Sam Couch, David Freitag, Eric

Husmann, Elijah Mounts, Shane Palmerino, Courtney

Roberts, Curtis Rose, Andy Ross, Caitlin Steele, Ethan

Wilson, Penny Ross

Team 694: Credit Suisse, D. E. Shaw & Co.,

Yvette & Larry Gralla, Con Edison, Time, Inc.,

The Wallace Foundation, Cox & Company, Inc.,

Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association,

Parents Association, and Stuyvesant

High School

New York, NY

Rafael Colón, Paul Desiderio, Ian Ferguson, Tom

Ferguson, Mel Hauptman, Steve Hilton, Colin Holgate,

Jesse Hong, Wendy Keyes, Catherine Kunicki, Ron

Kunicki, Abigail Laufer, Justin Lee, James Lonardo,

Joe Ricci, Andy Woo, Nancy Yabroudi, Anat Zloof, Tal

Akabas, Daniel Alzugaray, Katie Banks, Nathan Bixler,

Joe Blay, Josef Broder, Joshua Budofsky, Steven Cao,

Samuel Crisanto, Jena Cutie, Polina Danilouk, Paul

Desiderio, Allan Dong, Joshua Hecht, Tala Huhe,

Ethan Illfelder, Edward Kaplan, Jenna Kefeli, Sarah

Ketani, Nathan Keyes, Theodora Kunicki, Andrew

LaBunka, Steven Lam, Benjamin Lee, Yi Li, Peter Liu,

Victor Liu, Joanna Ma, Andrew Mandelbaum,

Jonathan Meed, Kimberly Milner, Manav Nanda, Sakif

Noor, Jason Rassi, Diana Sandy, Olga Shishkov, Amy

Suen, Tiffany Tsai, William Twomey, Sho Uemura,

Daryl Vulis, Jay Walker, Jesse Weinman, Harrison

Wong, Sami Yabroudi, Dishen Yang, Flynn Zaiger,

Danny Zhu, Maya Zloof, Yon Zloof

Team 1319: AdvanceSC, Laughlin Racing

Products, Sealed Air Corp. Cryovac, AssetPoint,

National Electrical, Greenville County Schools,

and Mauldin High School

Mauldin, SC

Erich Zende, Robert Zende, Chuck Zende, Nancy

Zende, Rick Wilson, Glenn Killinger, Hugh Rambo,

Jeff Corbett, Patrick Robert, Anna Robert, Leesa

Brotherton, Crystal Dickerson, Catherine Zende,

Elliot Dickerson, Travis Suttles, Mitch Neiling, Alex

Slessman, Matt Wilson, Mason Walker, Trace Guy,

Zack Ayres, Stephen Corbett, Alex Kelly, Adam

Sherrick, Ethan Suttles, Ryan Upham, Ian Harris,

Jon Gawrych

Team 1510: NASA, Beaverton Education

Foundation, Intel, Tektronix, PGE, Portland

Community College, and Westview Robotics

Team

Beaverton, OR

Caio Tenca, Anjali Menon, Andrew Fagin, Andy Goetz,

Andy Hsiao, Arron Ho, Ben Stolt, Brent Pugh,

Christopher Vergara, CJ Hyde, David Kresta, Jasmine

Sears, Keegan Edwards, Nolan Check, Prachi Pai,

Rajesh Gunaji, Rohit Saxena, Steven Garcia, Tanmay

Bhardwaj, Thomas Joseph, Yujie Zeng, Williane Tenca,

Alexandre Tenca, Mark Garcia, Alex Knots, Robert

Hendel, David Locke, Gladys Chin, Jean Tenca,

Patrick Stolt, Tom Edwards, Pai Janardan, Patrick

Kraft, Matthew Scott, Michael Flaman

Photographers and

Illustrators

Each profiled team supplied the photographs and

illustrations that appear in this book.

Additional photograph and illustration credits:

Adriana M. Groisman, FIRST

Joe Menassa, Joe Menassa Photography

Dave Lavery, NASA

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