Meet the team

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Student Leadership

Andrew Ji - Team Captain

Kai Edick, Lukas Goodworth - CAD/Mechanical Team Leader

Ryan Ino - Programming Team Leader

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STUDENT SUBteams

Drive Team

Kai Edick - Driver

Lukas Goodworth - Co-Driver

Zeyn Schweyk - Human Player

Zephan Bornfreund, Ryan Ino - Technician

Pit Crew

Ryan Ino - Technician / Programming

Will Matthews - Pneumatics / Battery / Electrical

Kai Edick - Main Mechanism Repairs

Andrew Ji - Safety Captain / Judge Communications

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LEAD MENTOR

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Andrew Duerner

Andrew Duerner is leading the mentor effort, bringing FIRST Robotics Competition experience and providing a build location for Team 5818.  Being a Dos Pueblos alumni and with a family of five in the Goleta area, Andrew is dedicated to expanding local technical achievement in the community, with robotics being central to that focus.  Andrew graduated from UCSB with a degree in mechanical engineering and has been a professional engineer for the last 13 years. He is currently the senior mechanical engineer at Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions in Santa Barbara, developing sensors for the automotive industry with an end goal of autonomous driving.  Robotics has always been an interest for Andrew with projects ranging from competing in Battlebots, assisting in classes and community instruction through UCSB robotics programs, assisting a team for the DARPA Grand Challenge, patents for mechanisms and transmissions, and mentoring for FIRST Robotics Team 1717 with two successful seasons of getting to the World Championship event in St. Louis.  In his free time, Andrew builds LEGOs with his three boys, but he insists not all of the LEGO creations are robots.

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Computer Aided Design (CAD)

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Jason Farnam

Jason is a UCSB student studying Mechanical Engineering. In high school, Jason participated in a small FRC team in San Diego and has brought our team invaluable experience and knowledge about FIRST and the robotics competition.

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Software

Octavia Togami
Software Mentor

Nikhil Ograin
Software Mentor

Kai Mills
Software Mentor

Lennie Araki
Software Mentor

Lennie graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.S. in Computer Science. He has been working for the past ten years at FLIR Systems Inc. as a senior software engineer. Lennie became involved in with FRC when his daughter entered freshman year at Dos Pueblos in 2007. As a Dos Pueblos alumni, Lennie wished he had the opportunity then to participate in a program like FRC. He wants to support Riviera Robotics program and give the students a chance to learn and participate in the FIRST Robotics competition. Outside of robotics, he enjoys playing beach volleyball, tennis, and woodworking. 

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System Design

Michael Cameron
Electronics/Mechanical Mentor

Doug Bowlus
Electronics/Pneumatics Mentor

Doug graduated from Ohio University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and got his Masters in Ocean Engineering at Florida Tech. He has been working for the past ten years using and developing electronic systems in the world's oceans. Doug heard about FIRST robotics from a co-worker whose son was in the program and got involved just in time to become a mentor for the 2013 build season. He has been a proponent of FIRST ever since and has provided the mentorship he wished he had when he was in high school. Doug also spends his free time in SCUBA diving, automation, electronics, glass working, ocean mapping.

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 FABRICATION

Michael Ramsey
Operations/Fabrication Mentor 

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