Andrew Thompson
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Animation Leader
People Who Inspire Me: Oh, wow, here's a few:
Carl Sagan, Neil Gaiman, Isaac Asimov, John Flansburgh, John Linnell, etc.
Future Plans: I'm currently slated to attend Indiana University (sorry, Mr. Giltner) with the hopes of majoring in Biochemistry. I'd love to also pursue a minor in some form of literary studies. I'd love to someday visit Scandinavia.
Favorite Quote: "It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
-Neil Gaiman
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."
-Carl Sagan
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
-Ernest Hemingway
Cody Austin
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Auxilary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: Seth Avett, My Unlce, Dean Kamen,Dan Auerbach, and Woodie Flowers
Future Plans: After I graduate I plan on attending college at Purdue or IPFW to study mechanical engineering technology, and after that find a job relating to engineering.
Favorite Quote: "Trying is having the intention to fail"
Joshua Chang
Grade: Sophmore
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: N/A
Future Plans: Join TechHounds during junior and senior year.
Favorite Quote: -- "Play until the buzzer sounds."
-JVN
"22 motors? Challenge Accepted."
-from Chief Delphi
Alex Chattin
Grade: Sophmore
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Tom Brady
Sidney Crosby
Future Plans: Be an engineer somewhere.
Get accepted to Harvard, but don't go.
Favorite Quote: "Thats OK it's only a prototype."
"It's IRI"
-Evan Chivington
Eric Chivington
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Mr. Lahey, David James, Ryan Wilmes
Future Plans: Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University.
Favorite Quote: It's easier to do it right the first time than to have to explain why you didn't later - Mr. Haltom
Alyssa Dash
Grade: Sophmore
Division/Role: Animation
People Who Inspire Me: My cats and dogs, my mom and dad, my Grandparents, Nicole Nordeman, Kent Leslie, Lea Salonga, and Kelly Clarkson.
Future Plans: I plan to go to college, then maybe med school, make lots of money, and when I'm rich enough buy enough land to own a Canadian lynx. From there on, we will be best friends and he will not eat any of my friends I invite over.
Favorite Quote: "The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
Zach Deganutti
Grade: Junior
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: My family, Bob Ross, Fred Rogers
Future Plans: My main plan is to go to Purdue for Engineering or Computer Science.
Favorite Quotes: "Carpe diem!"
~Horace
"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. " ~Abraham Lincoln
Tom Doherty
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Robot Ops.
People Who Inspire Me: 1. God
2. Parents
3. Abe Lincoln
4. George Washington
Future Plans: I plan on going to a university and have fun learning about engineering.
Favorite Quote: "Believe you can and you're halfway there."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him."
-Jim Elliot
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
-Walt Disney
Conner Erickson
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Auxiliary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: Oprah Winfrey and Tyra Bank.
Future Plans: Eat, sleep and be happy
Favorite Quote: "I don't like rain, it's too wet." -Anonymous
Josh Foster
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Bubbles, Rob Schneider, Selvester Stallone, Vermin Supreme, Arnold Schwarznegger, Boss Tweed.
Future Plans: Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University
Favorite Quote: "Whatever you do, do it well"-Unknown
"Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"- T.S. Eliot
DJ Fullerton
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Construction
People Who Inspire Me: Mr. Haltom, Mr. Smith, Mr. Giltner, Mr.Chivington
Future Plans: It is my ambition to go to college to obtain a Bachelor's degree in Fire Science and then become a firefighter.
Favorite Quote: If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you." Mahummad Ali
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine." Lord Byron
Ateev Gupta
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Robot Operations
People Who Inspire Me: Steve Jobs
James Dyson
Frederick Brooks
John Wooden
Future Plans: Purdue or Rose-Hulman after that I'm not to sure. I know I don't want a cubical job. I want to keep flying airplanes as a hobby and do something engineering related as my occupation.
Favorite Quote: "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish"
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”
"It's like giving a glass of ice water to someone in Hell."
Chris Herr
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: My parents
Future Plans: Purdue University
Air Force ROTC
Favorite Quote: Take every situation and make the best of what you got.
Michael Jeffers
Grade: Sophmore
Division/Role: Animation
People Who Inspire Me: Douglas Adams Markes Perison
Future Plans: Go to college, be an animator for pixar or a game programmer
Favorite Quote: “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” ― Douglas Adams
Oliver Kicks
Grade: senior
Division/Role: Programming
People Who Inspire Me: My Dad was the one who really got me into computers; from the day he brought our first family computer home, I've always been fascinated with how they work
I don't really have a hero, but I have all my friends to thank for driving me to the next level
Future Plans: To graduate from Purdue with a computer science degree, and from there get a job in programming
Favorite Quote: " It's an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, Man had always assumed that he was the most intelligent species occupying the planet, instead of the *third* most intelligent. The second most intelligent creatures were of course dolphins who, curiously enough, had long known of the impending destruction of the planet earth. They had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger, but most of their communications were misinterpreted as amusing attempts to punch footballs or whistle for titbits. So they eventually decided they would leave earth by their own means. The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double backward somersault through a hoop while whistling the star-spangled banner, but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish." - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Akshay Kumar
Grade: Sophomore
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: Soccer, Drawing, Chemistry
Future Plans: Neurosurgeon and Artificial Intelligence
Favorite Quotes: "Beware of sharp zip ties!"
Eric Lentz
Grade: Sophmore
Division/Role: Auxiliary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: Various fictitious characters.
Future Plans: To get a job and generally enjoy myself after graduating from a 4-year university.
Favorite Quote: "You shall not pass!"
"No, I am your father."
"I'll be back."
"He's dead, Jim."
"With great power, comes great responsibility."
Erin Miller
Grade: Sophmore
Division: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Future Plans: I plan on going to Purdue, probably for aerospace engineering.
Favorite Quote: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
-Groucho Marx
Mark SanGiorgio
Grade: Junior
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: My Father, Joel Kirk
Future Plans: Purdue for either a Physics Major or a Mechanical Engineering Major
Favorite Quote: "America is becoming so educated that Ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."
-Will Rogers
Ben Schneider
Grade: Junior
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: me
Future Plans: USMC
Favorite Quote: People do not need hand outs, they need hand ups.
Scott Blakenbaker
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Christopher McCandless
Future Plans: Scott intends to graduate from CHS and pursue higher education at Cornell or MIT (pending admission), where he will study the disciplines of physics and engineering, doing research in ornithoptic flight and brainstorming the hologram theater, all while learning Italian and French, pursuing study-abroad options whenever possible. An on-campus business entitled "The Blankenbakery" will hopefully finance these ambitions. Should this future fail to pan out, Scott's fall back plan is to enroll in the Culinary Institute of America pursuing his dreams of being a French-Italian pastry chef, operating alongside his friends in the joint tea-shop/bookstore "Noveltea". Here his life will enter a period of stagnation, with occasional attempts to insert soul (such as music, theater, and literature) ending in disappointing failure, until his untimely death at the age of 54 due to a tragic incident involving canapes. Scott has no plans after this point.
Favorite Quote: “We choose to go not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to measure and organize the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” ~ JFK
Stephen Thompson
Grade: Junior
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Dean Kamen, Joe Paterno, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, Leonardo Da Vinci
Future Plans: I plan to go to college at West Virginia, Notre Dame, or Purdue, and major in either biomedical, chemical, or aerospace engineering. After completion, I wish to obtain my Master's degree and doctorate in my chosen major, at which time I also hope to work for a company which is dedicated to changing the world!
Favorite Quote: "Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow." -Anonymous
"Believe deep down in your heart that you are destined to do great things." -Joe Paterno
Daniel Volokhova Barlan
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: I am inspired by many people. My father was the one that pushed me towards the electronical things in life by watching him build things on his own. He always has his own projects and fixes things around the house on his own. Also, my uncle is a software engineer and I was always interested in his work.
Future Plans: I plan on becoming a Computer Engineer in the future by graduating from Purdue University. First though, I plan on attending Ivy Tech, then transferring over to Purdue.
Favorite Quote: What is life?
Whats next?
Why?
Leo Welter
Grade: Junior
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: Simo Haya
Otto von Bismarck
Future Plans:Purdue school of engineering
Favorite Quote: "Cry in the dojo, laugh on the battlefield" Ancient Japanese proverb
Gus Zalam
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Andrew Little Thompson Jeffers / Animation Division
Future Plans: Major in mechanical engineering at Purdue University and end up with a career in Automotive Technology
Favorite Quote: "I'm going to stop paying attention to anything you say now." - Little Jeffers
John Du
Grade: Junior
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: Markus Persson, Bill Gates, Greg Fields
Future Plans: software engineer
Favorite Quote: "You can't fix stupid." ~Tychus Findlay
Kyle Anderson
Grade: Freshman
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton
Future Plans: Go to college, possibly Purdue, and then become either an Electrical Engineer or a Video Game Designer.
Favorite Quote: "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible."
Josiah Goeman
Grade: Junior
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: Jesus Christ
Markus Persson
Remi Gillard
Future Plans: I would like to become a game developer.
Favorite Quote: Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
~Albert Einstein
Molly Wardlow
Grade: Freshman
Division/Role: Construction
People Who Inspire Me: Lucille Ball, my Mom and my Dad.
Future Plans: I plan to go to college and study some sort of engineering (probably mechanical) and I would love to travel around the world see what it has to offer.
Favorite Quote: "Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will." - Jawaharal Nehru
Aruni Ranaweera
Grade: Junior
Division/Role: Public Relations
People Who Inspire Me: Martin Luther King Jr., Steven Spielberg, George Orwell, Bill Gates
Future Plans: College
Favorite Quote:"You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe are the most mysterious."
- Pixar's Day & Night
Agustina Salusso
Grade: Freshman
Division/Role: Public Relations
People Who Inspire Me: My parents
Future Plans: In the future I want to go to college in Argentina. I will hopefully become an artist/photographer.
Favorite Quote: Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther
-Thomas Carlyle
Tim Williams
Grade: Freshman
Division/Role: Animation
People Who Inspire Me: I hadn't really thought about it.
Future Plans: I want to be an engineer
Favorite Quote: If you don't care, you don't get any. (my grandfather)
Blake Loncharich
Grade: Freshman
Division/Role: Auxiliary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: My grandfather, of course. I am also inspired by Edison, Da Vinci, Ben Franklin, and other great inventors.
Future Plans: I plan on going to Purdue, or another college if money allows, and become an engineer.
Favorite Quote: "Eureka! I have found it." Archimedes
"The doors of wisdom are never shut." Benjamin Franklin
And others that I will think of the moment that I send this.
Kenny Lin
Grade: Freshman
Division/Role: Animation/Website
People Who Inspire Me: Bruce Lee, Maozedong
Future Plans: I plan on going to Purdue and becomimg a programmer
Favorite Quote: "If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."Zen Proverb
Nate Harcourt
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: RobotOps
People Who Inspire Me: Peter Murphy, the Mythbusters, David Gravette
Future Plans: Audio Engineering, Industrial Design. Probably something about moving to Germany.
Favorite Quote: “ 'No, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.'
'Just me? What about everyone else?'
'There is no one else,' I said. 'In this universe, there’s just you and me.'
You stared blankly at me. 'But all the people on earth…'
'All you. Different incarnations of you.' " -Andrew Weir "The Egg"
Amy Groswald
Grade: Sophmore
Division/Role: Animation
People Who Inspire Me: Dizzy Gelespe Miles Davis Freddie Hubbard Thelonious Monk Buddy Rich
Future Plans: I plan to go to college and then Med school. I want to play the trumpet for fun when I get older too.
Favorite Quote: Dont give up, dont ever give up
Nick Spencer
Grade: Freshman
Division/Role: Animation
People Who Inspire Me: David Price
Matt Anderjeskkikiil9ji*
Craig Maude
Sher the CVS guy
Hogarth fom the Iron Giant
Larry the Lobster
* May be incorrect spelling of last name
Future Plans: The conquest of the entire African continent, followed by the Middle East and lower Asia. (my successors will conquer the rest)
Favorite Quote: David Price
Matt Anderjeskkikiil9ji*
Craig Maude
Sher the CVS guy
Hogarth fom the Iron Giant
Larry the Lobster
* May be incorrect spelling of last name
Ashu Jayaprakasan
Grade: Sophmore
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: My parents
Future Plans:
Favorite Quote: "life is food. there is nothing more."
-Sark ManGritio
"Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it"
-Anonymous
Jacob Swiezy
Grade: Freshman
Division/Role: Programming.Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: Albert Einstein and Dad
Future Plans: Finishing high school and going to college, possibly Purdue. After that I plan to become an engineer, but who knows.
Favorite Quote: Remember there is always hope. The ark was built by amateurs, the Titanic by professionals. (Unknown)
Griffin Sylvester
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman
Future Plans: To major in Computer Science, start a career in software engineering, and generally lead an awesome life.
Favorite Quote: “We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
Eileen Chou
Grade: Freshman
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: My sister, my parents, and my youth group inspire me.
Future Plans: I would like to become a mechanical engineer in the future.
Favorite Quote:"God doesn't give you the people you want, he gives you the people you need. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make the person you were meant to be."
-Someone's Tumblr
David Murzyn
Grade: Sophmore
Division/Role: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: Bob Dylan - He wanted what he did to have meaning
- If music then didn't fit him, he changed it until it did
My Uncles - They share many of my interests and often give me advice
Future Plans: I plan to go to college after high school. As for what I want to do, I still have a lot of search and research to do. Electrical work and computer science interest me, but there are other possibilities.
Favorite Quote: "Time enjoyed wasting, was not wasted" - John Lennon
"Om nom nom nom..." - The cookie monster
Nick Saggese
Grade: Junior
Division: Robot Ops/Website
People Who Inspire Me: Nikola Tesla
Future Plans: Engineer/Entrepreneur.
Favorite Quote: Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
-Michael Moore
Matt Hawthorne
Grade: Senior
Division: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Nicola Tesla Jeremy Clarkson Alan Alda Michelangelo (the person) Michelangelo (the turtle) the honey badger
Future Plans: Go to school, go home, do homework, eat, sleep, rinse and repeat about 80 more times this year and graduate. Next year, repeat cycle at Purdue only with less sleep and more homework, graduate again with a degree in engineering, find a reasonable well paying job, make enough money to live a comfortable life and retire early and catch up on the sleep I missed in college.
Favorite Quote: May the bridges I burn light my way
Josh Herr
Grade: Freshman
Division: Auxillary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: My dad and Jeff Saturday because he is my favorite football player.
Future Plans: I would love to go to Notre Dame to become an architect.
Favorite Quote: "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." George Bernard Shaw
Tim Hammond
Grade: Freshman
Division: Auxillary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: David Breashears, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Charles Darwin, Admiral Ackbar.
Future Plans: When I grow up I want to recreationally rock climb, and skydive/basejump.
Favorite Quote: ""The brain named itself." -Anonymous
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Aidan Kehoe
Grade: Sophomore
Division: auxiliary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: US Soldiers
Future Plans: Going to college to study Science or Engineering.
Favorite Quote: There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you darn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
PJ O'Rourke
Jacob Ellis
Grade: Freshmen
Division: Auxiliary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: My brother inspires me as well as some celebrities.
Future Plans: I plan to become a construction worker of some type.
Favorite Quote: I don't have any favorite quotes.
Brian Alexander
Grade: Freshman
Division: Auxiliary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: My Parents
Veterans
Future Plans: I plan on attending Purdue University for engineering, or to eventually obtain a MBA.
Favorite Quote: "A ship is safest in harbor, but that's not what ships are for"
Jonathan Chen
Grade: Freshman
Division: Programming/Electrical
People Who Inspire Me: To tell you the truth, absolutely no one.
Future Plans: I plan on attending IU Medical School because I want to become a doctor.
Favorite Quote: "No matter how bad things are, they're never going to get any better and they're never going to get any worse. Just deal with it."
Humphrey Lin
Grade: Junior
Division: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Isaac Newton
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
Jascha Heifetz
Nikola Tesla
Joshua Harris
Future Plans: Attend college, probably Purdue, earn basic 4-year degree in some kind of engineering, join workforce and earn graduate degree later.
Favorite Quote: "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
"Love your neighbor as yourself."
"Now, there is no do or don't; only try.
Evan Chivington
Grade: Sophmore
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Fosh Joster
Nick
G^3
Future Plans: Purdue University Mechanical Engineering
Favorite Quote: Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
Josh Jordan
Grade: Junior
Division/Role: Robot Ops
People Who Inspire Me: Bubbles, Rob Schneider, Selvester Stallone, Vermin Supreme, Arnold Schwarznegger, Boss Tweed.
Future Plans: Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University
Favorite Quote: "Whatever you do, do it well"-Unknown
"Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"- T.S. Eliot
Kyle Ellis
Grade: Senior
Division/Role: Auxiliary Construction
People Who Inspire Me: My grandfather
Future Plans: Going to Purdue to major in Building Construction Management
Favorite Quote: Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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