Meet the incredible people who make up our team, LASA students who share a passion for robotics.
Subteams: Embedded Software
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: I aspire to be someone who continues to develop a growth mindset and stay a life-long learner.
Outside of Robotics: I coordinate operations and volunteer management for organizations.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: I want to become an astrobiologist, someone that studies life in the universe. This includes subjects like aliens - and questions like: "are we alone?" One element of Astrobiology is robotics, as machines can search for this other life without sending people. This is especially ideal in extreme environments like the subsurface ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa or hunting for fossils in the chilling deserts of mars.
Outside of Robotics: I love to read and learn about topics that interest me such as the possibility of life on other worlds or the lost Ancestral Puebloan culture of the American Southwest. I also love to spend time with my dog, Firn, as you can see in my profile photo.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design, Electrical
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: I want to pursue a career in car manufacturing.
Outside of Robotics: I like to play video games, swim, and work in building new things.
Fun Fact About Me: I met Andrew Zimmerman in a Punch Pizza in Minnesota.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Watching horror movies in the hotel room with friends
Subteams: Fabrication, Embedded Software, Electrical
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: Entrepreneurship related path, business, software engineering, etc.
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy creating digital music, and skateboarding.
Fun Fact About Me: I have the same organ removed as Jacob.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Cheering with the team collectively
Subteams: Fabrication, Electrical
Grade: 9
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy drawing, reading books, swimming, and listening to music.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Working in the pits during competition and meeting other teams
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: I would like to become an Aerospace Engineer.
Fun Fact About Me: I am fabrication lead.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design, Strategy Software
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I love to referee soccer and watch F1. I also love to play tennis with friends.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Losing my voice after our amazing playoff run in the 2023 Belton competition.
Subteams: Fabrication, Electrical
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I like to play the violin and bass guitar.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Working on our pit bench with friends.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design, Drive
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I spend a lot of time in Archery and Fencing, with the odd spout of building.
Fun Fact About Me: I‘m 6‘9“ tallest person on the team
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Subteams: Embedded Software
Grade: 11
Outside of Robotics: I like to write and play video games.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Chilling in the hotels with my teammates.
Subteams: Fabrication, Electrical
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I do my homework.
Fun Fact About Me: I like reading and tie-dye shirts.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design, Media/Awards
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: Engineering or Exercise Physiology Career
Outside of Robotics: I do weightlifting and spend time with my friends and family.
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Subteams: Design
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: I want to have a cool car that I've worked on myself.
Outside of Robotics: I like 3D modeling in Blender, watching youtube, and hanging out with my friends.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: My future aspirations are to continue pursuing my interests in mechanical and electrical engineering and coding.
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy playing guitar and reading horror books.
Fun Fact About Me: I don’t like Ketchup.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Staying after school and working on a robot with my friends.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy listening to jazz, visiting old places, and hanging out with friends.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: A favorite purple and hazy memory I have from LASA robotics is when we made a ping pong “table” and played ping pong with balls of scotch tape.
Subteams: Embedded Software, Strategy Software
Grade: 11
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy engineering and programming new things.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Being in the stands watching the robot compete
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 9
Outside of Robotics: I like playing guitar, playing video games, and biking.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Seeing our robot win a 3v1 in my first ever competition.
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I play clarinet and am a Wave to Earth and Laufey enthusiast.
Fun Fact About Me: I have a pet rabbit named Mocha!
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Subteams: Fabrication, Electrical
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy band, playing video games, and problem solving.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: When our alliance at a competition last year made it all the way to the semifinals.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design
Grade: 9
Future Aspirations: I wish to be an aerospace engineer after attending UT or MIT.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: The first time I saw the demonstration robots when touring LASA.
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 9
Future Aspirations: I hope to become either a mechanical or software engineer in the future, as I enjoy doing stuff like this.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Going to competitions and watching robots
Subteams: Fabrication, Embedded Software
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: Future in computer or software engineering or starting my own business
Outside of Robotics: I bike, play basketball and study.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Working in the pits under pressure when every minute is important
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 9
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy playing guitar, playing with my dog, and sleeping.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Going to the competitions with my friends
Subteams: Design, Strategy Software, Outreach
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I eat paint while it dries and sell military secrets.
Fun Fact About Me: I can go over half an hour without blinking.
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 9
Outside of Robotics: I spend time with friends and family, watch football, and go golfing with my friends.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Working in the pits and getting to meet people from other teams during Belton and Ft. Worth.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design, Electrical
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: To become CEO of a company
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy listening to music, visiting new places, and hanging out with my family and friends.
Fun Fact About Me: I like watching Kdramas and Son Wukong is one of my favorite fictional characters.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Watching horror movies in the hotel room with friends
Subteams: Fabrication, Design, Electrical
Grade: 10
Fun Fact About Me: I don’t have an apendix.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Watching horror movies in the hotel rooms with friends.
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: I want to become an engineer.
Outside of Robotics: I like camping with my friends and programming.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design
Grade: 12
Future Aspirations: I will be studying mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland College Park. I plan on joining the schools Formula SAE IC (Internal Combustion Engine) Team, and R@M (Robotics at Maryland), building an UAV (Underwater Autonomous Vehicle).
Outside of Robotics: I CAD stuff for robotics. During build season, the grind never stops. Yes, I have no life outside of the team. During the offseason, I play cello, enjoy nature, spend time with my dog, and hang out with friends.I like camping with my friends and programming.
Fun Fact About Me: Mr. Bertucci gave me the nickname “El Destructo” after I broke a bunch of drill bits and almost everything I touched. I also am the only active member of the 2024 class on the team.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: My favorite memory was watching our mentors Mr. Bertucci and Randy Baden work and create parts for the robot. I loved the whole design process, from working on CAD, seeing the robot take shape, and watching it get built.
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 9
Future Aspirations: I would like to contribute more to robotics.
Outside of Robotics: I like to play tennis with my family and doodle.
Fun Fact About Me: I was in a car ad when I was in elementary.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Watching the robot compete for the first time.
Subteams: Fabrication, Electrical, Media/Awards
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: I want to become either a surgeon or an anesthesiologist.
Fun Fact About Me: I am really good at 2048 when I get bored enough
Subteams: Fabrication, Electrical
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: Go to college!
Outside of Robotics: I play the drums!
Subteams: Electrical, Media/Awards, Drive
Grade: 11
Outside of Robotics: I like to read cringe romance books, sew, and drink as much iced coffee as possible!
Fun Fact About Me: I’ve practically memorized the entire script of the first twlight movie!
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Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 9
Outside of Robotics: I like sleeping, reading, and playing soccer.
Fun Fact About Me: I’m french!! 🇫🇷🥖🇫🇷
Subteams: Fabrication, Design
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I play chess, Practice cello, and play quizbowl.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Designing the winch climber from video games to AI to FIRST.
Subteams: Embedded Software, Strategy Software
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: Work on developing softwares and systems to help out those in need. (Biotech related computer science)
Outside of Robotics: I want to continue my love for computers and their applications anywhere from video games to AI to FIRST.
Subteams: Fabrication, Drive
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: To become an engineer and hopefully work on renewable or nuclear energy.
Outside of Robotics: I do art, participate in the model UN, and do my own personal engineering projects.
Fun Fact About Me: I am a princess, the fairy kind.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: The Huston texas pool.
Subteams: Electrical
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: Electrical Engineering
Outside of Robotics: I love reading mystery books, going on hikes and trails, and Bollywood dance!
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Wiring the robot with everyone with the team until 10pm!
Subteams: Fabrication, Drive
Grade: 9
Future Aspirations: Astronaut, FIRST mentor
Outside of Robotics: I do homework.
Subteams: Fabrication, Design, Electrical, Media/Awards, Outreach
Grade: 9
Outside of Robotics: I like to paint, read, swim, as well as competitively rock climbing.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Going to competition and working in the pits
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 9
Future Aspirations: In the future, I would like to be an engineer. I’m not completely sure which type but mechanical and civil engineering looks interesting so far.
Outside of Robotics: I love to play tennis and read. I’m a big fan of physical activity and a bigger fan of playing tennis.
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: Dance, puzzles, paint, and silly around
Fun Fact About Me: I can turn my arm 270 degrees around!
Subteams: Embedded Software
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: Hardware or Software Engineer
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy history, investing, 3D printing, progamming projects, participating in CyberPatriot, and collecting watches.
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Subteams: Fabrication, Design
Grade: 9
Future Aspirations: I want to go into the engineering field, and learn to cook!
Outside of Robotics: I like to rock climb and read
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: My first competition in Belton
Subteams: Outreach, Fabrication
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy singing, taking long runs, and spending time with my goofy dog Phyllis.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Making new friends in the pits
Subteams: Embedded Software, Electrical, Media/Awards
Grade: 11
Outside of Robotics: I go places with friends and start coding projects on the side.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: All the times we cheered as a team during competitions
Subteams: Fabrication, Media/Awards, Outreach
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy taking naps.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: The incredible feeling working in the pits!!!
Subteams: Fabrication, Electrical, Drive
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: Electrical Engineer
Outside of Robotics: I am a classical Bharatanatyam dancer, and a part-time court jester.
Fun Fact About Me: I defend the walls of my castle.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Going from a 7th alliance to semifinals at Belton (2023)
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 10
Outside of Robotics: I enjoy swimming and many other sports, spending time with my dogs, and baking.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Spending time with friends at competitions and cheering for the team
Subteams: Embedded Software, Strategy Software
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: I aspire to reach FIRST Championships and beyond with LASA Robotics. I also want to create a positive impact on society through computer science and robotics technology.
Outside of Robotics: I love playing soccer and watching sci-fi movies with my brother.
Fun Fact About Me: I enjoy showcasing my creativity through drawing and folding origami!
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Winning the Autonomous Award with the rest of the software team! I remember talking with the judges in our pit (along with my teammates) about the code we used for the autonomous portion of the game, which was a very exciting opportunity.
Subteams: Design, Embedded Software
Grade: 11
Future Aspirations: Go to college in a foreign country
Outside of Robotics: I mostly study, volunteer for small organizations, and in my free time I play video games with friends.
Fun Fact About Me: I have a horribly mismanaged sleep schedule.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: Cracking jokes with the rest of code team.
Subteams: Embedded Software
Grade: 10
Future Aspirations: After college, my ideal job would be working for a robotics company building software for their machines.
Fun Fact About Me: I play guitar.
Subteams: Fabrication
Grade: 9
Future Aspirations: I hope to become a mechanical engineer.
Favorite Purple Haze Memory: My favorite purple haze memory was going to state.
