Congratulations to all of our graduated alumni! We miss you all! And look forward to those returning as mentors!

2007 Alumni

Stephan Chauvin - Stephan joined our team this last year and loved to contribute to building our robot.  He is attending RIT this fall.

Mark Mascadri - Mark was our senior team captain, and has been on the team since its inception.  First starting with us as a wound up sophomore, with some hard work he grew to be an inspirational team leader.  One of the teams best presenters, a presenter for the chairman's award, a booming leader of team chears, Mark will be missed by the team.  He is attending SUNY Maritime to get his degree in Engineering.

Jackie Nielson - Jackie joined the team in our second year and has been an excited part of our team ever since.  Participating in everything from FLL to leadership, Jackie showed the team the imporantce of persistance and happiness.  She is attending MCC this year, and will be doing a 2+2 program with RIT.  She has returned to help the team as a mentor as well!

Annie Vognaphone - Annie was with us for her junior year, and was the head of the mechanical team, a wiz at math and with any tool, Annie could fix or find anything.  She is attending MCC towards a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and has returned to the team as a mentor!

2006 Alumni

Seniors
Andrew Harlan - Andrew graduated from our team this year and will be attending RIT in the fall for Engineering. Andrew joined us after helping us set up our first 2005 Rochester Rally. He was part of the 2005-2006 Leadership and Drive Subteams. He and his family were great promotors of our team Patron Drive.

Lorien Lee - Lorien graduated from our team this year and will be attending MCC in the fall. Lorien joined us at the inception of the team in September 2004. She was part of the spirit subteam both years, and in the 2005-2006 year joined the Strategy/Drive Subteam. She was the subteam leader for the spirit subteam, and was our team captain! She was also selected to be on the drive team as the operator for our robot shooter, and built both the drivetrain and the operator controls. She will be staying with 1511 as a mentor while she attends college.

Alex Peach - Alex graduated from our team this year and will be attending college for Computer Engineering or Computer Science, possibly Animation. Alex also joined our team at its inception, and brought along his dad, a Harris Engineer, and his brother. Alex was our lead animator for both years and put in a lot of long hours to finish each years animation.

Juniors
Ashley Cheney - Ashley will be attending the Clarkson School at Clarkson University in the fall. She joined our team for the Buckeye and Championship competitions in 2005 and has been with our team ever since. Although traveling from Victor, she joined the Strategy/Drive subteam and was very active in building several parts of our robot. She worked very hard on our team's chairmans award and was selected as the drive team Coach.

Keith Kearns - Keith will be attending MCC in the fall for Computer Graphics after graduating a year early from PHS. Keith also joined our team at inception. In this last year, Keith joined the Strategy/Drive subteam and was selected as the team's human player for competition. He was also very active in building several parts of the robot during build season. He will be staying with us as a mentor helping out with next year's drive train!

2005 Alumni

Tommy Cavalier - Tommy was one of our first seniors and was a huge help in putting together the electronics and the field for the Rally. At that rally Tommy showed his prowess for coaching and became our first student coach, trag-teaming the responsibility with Larry. Tommy coached the drive team to a regional win at the Greater Toronto Regional. Tommy is currently attending MCC.

Mir Khabursky - Mir was one of our three founding seniors and was our team's first treasurer and a part of the business team. Mir was our 2005 Human player and was around for nearly everything our team did. He helped build the robot and his positive attitude and huge smile was always a big encouragement to the team. He went to RIT in the fall of 2005 for business, and volunteered for the Finger Lakes Regional this year.

Mirza Strujo - Mirza was our first team captain and a great driving force for our team. He was a great leader, and was involved in everything the team did. From business to pit crew, building our drivetrain to making posters for the Rally, Mirza did it all. He was always there to motivate the team, and even returned this past build season to psych up the new leadership. He is starting a team at Alfred University where he is going for Mechanical Engineering.

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