2008 Enginerds Alumni
Matt Dearlove
Year(s) on the team: 2008
Role on the Team: Founding Member/Mechanical Team/Drive Team
College/Education after High School: Grand Valley State University
What you're doing now: Studying Social Work in my 4th year of school. One year out from graduation and then on to graduate school.
How the Team Impacted you: Working with Clinton, Brandi, and Gage was an experience that I will never forget. Going from the ground up to build a team, and get our first members to help us found the team was amazing. I learned important aspects of team management, leadership, teamwork, and how to work to get funding and support. Team 2337 taught me about myself and helped me develop skills to use in my future. I would trade these experiences for nothing.
Role on the Team: Founding Member/Mechanical Team/Drive Team
College/Education after High School: Grand Valley State University
What you're doing now: Studying Social Work in my 4th year of school. One year out from graduation and then on to graduate school.
How the Team Impacted you: Working with Clinton, Brandi, and Gage was an experience that I will never forget. Going from the ground up to build a team, and get our first members to help us found the team was amazing. I learned important aspects of team management, leadership, teamwork, and how to work to get funding and support. Team 2337 taught me about myself and helped me develop skills to use in my future. I would trade these experiences for nothing.
Michael Belyayev
Year(s) on the Team:2008
Role on the Team:Mechanical Team/IR controller
College/Education after High School: Kettering University (1 yr.)
What you're doing now: Combat Engineer w. US Army
How the Team Impacted you:Instilled the values of hard work, problem solving, and hard work. Also It taught me a lot of handy work skills with different metal working machines.
Role on the Team:Mechanical Team/IR controller
College/Education after High School: Kettering University (1 yr.)
What you're doing now: Combat Engineer w. US Army
How the Team Impacted you:Instilled the values of hard work, problem solving, and hard work. Also It taught me a lot of handy work skills with different metal working machines.
Greg Leighton
Year(s) on the team: 2008
Role on the Team: Mechanical Team/IR controller
College/Education after High School: Kettering University
What you're doing now: In my senior year at Kettering, co-oping at TRW Vehicle Safety Systems
How the Team Impacted you: Taught me the basics about building prototypes and mechanical systems. Being on the team made me think engineering could be a fun career choice and that being a part of FIRST was something that didn’t have to end after high school.
Role on the Team: Mechanical Team/IR controller
College/Education after High School: Kettering University
What you're doing now: In my senior year at Kettering, co-oping at TRW Vehicle Safety Systems
How the Team Impacted you: Taught me the basics about building prototypes and mechanical systems. Being on the team made me think engineering could be a fun career choice and that being a part of FIRST was something that didn’t have to end after high school.
Ryan Mikolaizik
Year(s) on the Team: 2008
Role on the Team: Mechanical
College/Education after High School: Michigan Tech University
What you're doing now: Attending my fourth year at MTU and studying Mechanical Engineering, this spring I am going on co-op with Toyota, and hoping to graduate in the Spring of 2013.
How the Team impacted you: It helped me to decide what I really wanted to do after working with the Mechanical aspects of the robot. It helped me to develop team work, machining skills, problem solving, and time management.
Role on the Team: Mechanical
College/Education after High School: Michigan Tech University
What you're doing now: Attending my fourth year at MTU and studying Mechanical Engineering, this spring I am going on co-op with Toyota, and hoping to graduate in the Spring of 2013.
How the Team impacted you: It helped me to decide what I really wanted to do after working with the Mechanical aspects of the robot. It helped me to develop team work, machining skills, problem solving, and time management.