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Team Mentors

Mr. Daniels

Affiliation / Company : J. R. Tucker High School

Mentor Since: ‘04

Info: Mr. Daniels is Sparky’s new lead mentor offering us his expertise in machining.

Mr. Togna

Affiliation / Company : J.R. Tucker High School

Mentor Since: ‘09

Info: Mr. Togna is a Chemistry teacher at Tucker. He is the new teacher on the block. He has lead our team to sucess.

Mr. Ciaschi

Affiliation / Company : J. R. Tucker High School

Mentor Since: ‘08

Info: Mr. “C” has stepped up his contribution to his new school by helping Sparky have a winning season.

Mr. Jeff

Affiliation / Company : GE Volunteers

Mentor Since: ‘05

Info: Mr. Jeff offers Sparky his expertise in everything especially in the electrical and pneumatics portion of our robot.

Mr. Lewis

Affiliation / Company: Parent Mentor

Mentor Since: ‘06

Info: Mr. Lewis works on the mechanical and the strategical part of the team. He has helped many young students learn valuable skills.

Mrs. Hutchinson

Affiliation / Company: Parent Mentor

Mentor Since: ‘05

Info: Mrs. Hutchinson works with almost every aspect of the team and contributes a lot of time is taking care of the team.

Mr. Leo

Affiliation / Company : Qimonda

Mentor Since: ‘00

Info: Leo is one of the original mentors of Sparky. Being with us from the start he has a wealth of information about the team and FIRST.

“Jumper”

Affiliation / Company : Flexicell

Mentor Since: ‘07

Info: Affectionately called “Jumper”, he has helped both Sparky and Blue Cheese help create and build new ideas for our robots.

Mr. Underwood

Affiliation / Company : Flexicell

Mentor Since: ‘07

Info: Mr. Underwood has taken two jobs: one to help Blue Cheese and the other is to help Sparky.

Mr. Thomas

Affiliation / Company : Flexicell

Mentor Since: ‘07

Info: Mr. Thomas helps out both teams by machining parts and giving advice and help on designing and building the robot

Mr. Walinski

Affiliation / Company : Flexicell

Mentor Since: ‘09

Info: Mr. Walinski has helped both teams while they are at Flexicell, offering his advice on any subject.

Mr. Jim

Affiliation / Company: Showbest

Mentor Since: ‘00

Info: Owner of ShowBest Fixture Corporation, Mr. Schubert helps Sparky with sponsorships and donations.

Ms. Norris

Affiliation / Company : J. R. Tucker High School

Mentor Since: ‘05

Info: Ms. Norris helps out Sparky by creating presentation material and photos of the robot.

Alumni Mentors

Patrick Cole

Years on Team: too long

Mentor Since: ‘05

Info: Patrick is currently attending the Art Institute of Washington studying Interactive Media Design. He is a previous Team 384 member and was the Vice President of the team during the 2005 season. In addition, he also helped design the original Sparky384.com website design in which we still use today.

Rameez Khamani

Years on Team: 6 years

Mentor Since: ‘08

Info: Rameez has been a fundamental part of our programming system and has dedicated time and effort to educate new members to Sparky.

James McCarson

Years on Team: 6

Mentor Since: ‘06

Info: 2010 Mech-E at VCU

Galen Nickey

Years on Team: 5

Mentor Since: ‘08

Info: Galen Nickey helps out the team in the time between his home trips from Miami.

Shaishav Prakeh

Years on Team: 2

Mentor Since: ‘09

Info: Currently at VT

Nadie Cubero

Years on Team: 4

Mentor Since: ‘08

Info: Mech-E at VCU