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| The Team |
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Diana "El Capitan" Cheng Our fearless captain, when it came to the competition, Diana Cheng was a no-nonsense 'get the job done' robotics and coding guru. She was essential in keeping our team on-task and on-schedule, constantly making sure that jobs were being completed and progress was being made. Without her, we may not have progressed past opening the box of Lego bricks. In addition to her managerial skills, she was able to provide and apply an uncanny knack for strategy that if implemented by the bot properly, would have won everything. A senior in the Electrical Engineering side of Course VI, Diana has seen her fair share of combat when it comes to making projects accomplish there tasks reasonably and on time. Without delay, she could produce fixes (or 'hacks' as she likened them) that would make our code or bot work properly. Often a subject of attention in lab, Diana is one of the few MIT students with the ability to dance and make it look good. She is part of MIT's Dance Troupe where she does double duty as both a choreographer and dancer. |
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Melinda "No Nickname Needed" Tang Melinda Tang came into 6.270 with a lot of coding experience. Known for her prowess in the Java computing language, rumor has it that at the end of last semester, 6.170 was found huddled in a corner with a black-eye and crying for its Mama. Results of M-Tang's coding abilities? Impossible to prove, but probable. 6.270 coding proved to be a new experience for her in that all code was to be written in C (not her native language) and that unlike previous projects, her code would be executed and ran on a physical object. This introduced a whole slew of new problems and challenges, not to mention working with and taking suggestions from at least one team member who's coding abilities were on par with that of a coconut. Outside of the robotics realm Melinda is a down-to-earth senior in Course VI who enjoys a good marathon of Gilmore Girls and kicking freshman butt in Karaoke Revolution. |
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Kip "El Jefe" Landergren Kip was the mechanical mastermind behind the robot's design and construction. An avid Lego-er as a child, this was his first introduction to advanced Lego techniques and robotics, both of which he took to like a bull in a China shop. Never satisfied with his work, we would often find him breaking apart a perfectly good component (or even robot--yikes!) only to find it completely rebuilt an all-nighter later. Lucky for us, however, each new edition produced was better than the last. Unlike the rest of us, Kip is Course 16, over 5'3", and not Asian. |
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