2009 EngiNERDs Alumni
Gage Hainer
Year(s) on the Team: 2(2008-2009)
Role on the Team: Team Founder, Team Captain, Electrical Team
College/Education after High School: Kettering University
What you're doing now: Majoring in Electrical Engineering
How the Team Impacted you: Taught me valuable leadership and electrical skills. Helped develop me professionally. Assisted with tuition at Kettering through FIRST Scholarship.
Role on the Team: Team Founder, Team Captain, Electrical Team
College/Education after High School: Kettering University
What you're doing now: Majoring in Electrical Engineering
How the Team Impacted you: Taught me valuable leadership and electrical skills. Helped develop me professionally. Assisted with tuition at Kettering through FIRST Scholarship.
Eric Salem
Year(s) on the Team: 2(2008-2009)
Role on the Team: Electrical Team, Team Captain, 2009 Driver
College/Education after High School: Kettering University
What you're doing now: Majoring in Electrical Engineering, co-oping at Terumo CVS(Cardiovascular Systems).
How the Team Impacted you: Put me on the path to Electrical Engineering as well as teaching me introductory EE concepts. Gave me connections to current day friends. Allowed me the opportunity to receive the FIRST Scholarship to help pay for college.
Role on the Team: Electrical Team, Team Captain, 2009 Driver
College/Education after High School: Kettering University
What you're doing now: Majoring in Electrical Engineering, co-oping at Terumo CVS(Cardiovascular Systems).
How the Team Impacted you: Put me on the path to Electrical Engineering as well as teaching me introductory EE concepts. Gave me connections to current day friends. Allowed me the opportunity to receive the FIRST Scholarship to help pay for college.
Jon Truchan
Year(s) on the team: 1(2009)
Role on the Team: Mechanical Team, Human Player
College/Education after High School: 1 year at University of Michigan-Flint
What are you doing now: Due to financial issues, joined the Army Reserves to help pay for school, and now back home plans on returning to school to study Robotical Engineering.
How the team impacted you: Learned how to successfully cooperate with a team to come up with working designs, learned a lot about mechanics, problem solving, helped me realize how amazing engineering is in order to help me choose a career path aka engineering without which i might have ended up choosing something lame like.... accounting or business..lol
Role on the Team: Mechanical Team, Human Player
College/Education after High School: 1 year at University of Michigan-Flint
What are you doing now: Due to financial issues, joined the Army Reserves to help pay for school, and now back home plans on returning to school to study Robotical Engineering.
How the team impacted you: Learned how to successfully cooperate with a team to come up with working designs, learned a lot about mechanics, problem solving, helped me realize how amazing engineering is in order to help me choose a career path aka engineering without which i might have ended up choosing something lame like.... accounting or business..lol