Member Bios

Juniors

Alphonso

Seasons:Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

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Jessica

Seasons:Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Jonah

Seasons: Cascade Effect, Res-Q, Velocity Vortex, Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

If you’re on a FIRST Tech Challenge team in Monrovia Unified, I’ve probably helped you with your software. That’s my thing.
This is my third year on the Suit Bots and fifth year in FIRST Tech Challenge. (Previously I was a programmer on Cougarbotics Alpha/Omega at Santa Fe Middle School.) I’ve been to the Houston Championship twice and think Jackson Street BBQ is the only reasonable place to eat within walking distance of Minute Maid Park.

My favorite color is black.

Ryan

Seasons: Cascade Effect, Res-Q, Velocity Vortex, Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Remember that sponsorship and lesson in applications of dif- ferent resins that we got from Roncelli Plastics? That was me. The organization in the robotics room, our outreach events, and that thing with the guy in the place? Me, too. I make the team go, doing all the thankless jobs. You’re welcome.

This is my third year on the Suit Bots and fifth year in robotics. I matriculated from Cougarbotics Alpha/Omega at Santa Fe prior.

Jonah’s favorite color is black.

Sophomores

Chase

Seasons: Cascade Effect, Res-Q, Velocity Vortex, Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

I possess an uncanny ability to channel robots during judging panels. I become our robot, speaking with its voice and animating all its dreams and designs. This performant transformation is so convincing that the judges are often not sure whether I am a real human being.

This is my fifth year in robots, my second with the Suit Bots following three with Clifton’s SWAT Team. I am the first Clifton Robotics graduate ever to join the Suit Bots.

Jonah’s favorite color is programming in English.

Emilio

Seasons: Res-Q, Velocity Vortex, Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

In my freshman year with the Suit Bots, the team went to worlds. That was me. And 13 other students.
This is my fourth year in FTC. I was a builder and driver for Cougarbotics Omega for my first two years and was a builder and backup coach for with the Suit Bots last year. This year I’m spearheading our transition to the Rev build system and hope to land Chris Bosh as a spokesperson for the team.

Jonah’s favorite color is black.

Freshmen

Andrew

Seasons:Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Edward

Seasons:Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Emily

Seasons:Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Ethan

Seasons:Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Kristoffer

Seasons:Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

MaryJo

Seasons:Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Troy

Seasons:Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Mentors

Mr. Dobson

Seasons: Get Over It, Bowled Over, Ring-It-Up, Block Party, Cascade Effect, Res-Q, Velocity Vortex, Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Our Compass award-winning robotics coach Tom Dobson is the wind beneath our wings and the hard work behind us even getting to do FTC in the first place. He’s been running Monrovia High School’s robotics program since Get Over It. Teams under Mr. Dobson’s tutelage have made supers four times and worlds five. He hosts FIRST Tech Challenge in Southern California’s kickoff and regional championship each year and is appreciative of all the hard work the students put in to their robots.

Mr. Bugert

Seasons: Get Over It, Bowled Over, Ring-It-Up, Block Party, Cascade Effect, Res-Q, Velocity Vortex, Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

A former Suit Bot and Monrovia Robotics first ever four year graduate, Brian helps us with electronics and structural fab- rication and acts as our tournament coach, worrying at us as appropriate. He is a computer engineering student and CSU Fullerton and a developer at Pearton.

Mr Feldman

Seasons: Velocity Vortex, Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Mr. Feldman is a chief engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He teaches us engineering design process and advises us on our builds. This season he gave inspiration to our battle cry “make new mistakes.”

Mr. Porter

Seasons: Ring-It-Up, Block Party, Cascade Effect, Res-Q, Velocity Vortex, Relic Recovery, Rover Ruckus

Mr. Porter helps keep us organized and is responsible for making sure that we’ve all filled out FIRST Tech Challenge’s release forms. He works in Ticketmaster’s Data Science group focusing mainly on stream processing applications. His previous professional endeavors include geo-spatial time series data analysis, spatial user input systems and foosball.