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Students

Our team prides ourselves on being a student driven, mentor supported team.  We enjoy being able to choose what direction our team goes using mentors to assist us in making sure the choices we make are the right ones, or if not, helping us learn from our mistakes.

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 Jude Slack

   Role: Build member

   Grade: 12

   Years in FIRST: 6

   Favorite memory: "------"

   Reason you joined: "------"

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Theo Johnson

   Role: Build Lead

   Grade: 11

   Years in FIRST: 4

   Favorite memory: "Hanging out at the pool in Lacrosse during a competition."

   Reason you joined:  "I had Mrs. Forgey as a teacher and she was the captain of the team at the time."

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AnnaGrace Berger

   Role: Co Business Lead

   Grade: 10

   Years in FIRST: 3

  Favorite memory: "Bringing in baked goods to share with the team"

   Reason you joined: "My brother was in it"

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 Elyas Anderson

   Role: --

   Grade: 9

   Years in FIRST: 2

   Favorite memory: "Taking apart a robot."

   Reason you joined: "I like robots."

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Paxton Fluegel

   Role: Build member

   Grade: 8

   Years in FIRST: 2

   Favorite memory: "My first time driving the robot was my favorite part."

   Reason you joined: "Robot cool"

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Cooper Koesel

   Role: Build Member

   Grade: 8

   Years in FIRST: 2

   Favorite memory: "Duluth comp"

   Reason you joined: "STEM Night"

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Caiden Nelson

   Role: Programmer

   Grade: 12

   Years in FIRST: ------

   Favorite memory: "------"

   Reason you joined: "------"

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Jacob Stegora 

   Role: Programmer

   Grade: 10

   Years in FIRST: 4

   Favorite memory: "Probably walking into the competition stadium for the first time."

   Reason you joined: "The reason I joined is because I just enjoy working on things that I want to work on."

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Soren Schabilion 

   Role:  Co Business Lead

   Grade: 8

   Years in FIRST: 2

   Favorite memory: "When we each donated 5 bucks at 1 in the morning to buy a cardboard cutout of the Becker robotics coach."

   Reason you joined: "My friends were doing it and so was my brother"

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  Chris Carter 

   Role: Build Member

   Grade: 9

   Years in FIRST: 3

   Favorite memory: "Recording programmers fixing autos and the bot going full speed into the wall"

   Reason you joined: "My mom told me to :)"

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 Louis Haley

   Role: Programmer

   Grade: 8

   Years in FIRST: 1

   Favorite memory: "When the bit of shrapnel flew across the room. :)"

   Reason you joined:

"Everyone told me to."

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Annika Vagle 

   Role: Build Member

   Grade: 7

   Years in FIRST: 1

   Favorite memory: "Robotnado  tragedy of 2026"

   Reason you joined: "I like ✨power tools✨"

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Daniel Schabilion

   Role: Build lead

   Grade: 12

   Years in FIRST: 4

   Favorite memory: "First time Autos worked on Tater Swift"

   Reason you joined: "Meet cool people and build cool robots!"

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 Claire Crum

   Role: Safety Captain

   Grade: 10

   Years in FIRST: 4

   Favorite memory: "Robotnado  tragedy of 2026"

   Reason you joined: "Jacob signed up for this and I thought why not, now I'm here."

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Tom Larson  

   Role: Build Member

   Grade: 8

   Years in FIRST: 1

   Favorite memory: "When Logan dropped the doohickey"

   Reason you joined: "Logan bugging me"

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 Logan Lundt

   Role: Build Member

   Grade: 8

   Years in FIRST: 2

   Favorite memory: "staying up late to work on the bot"

   Reason you joined: "I like nerd stuff"

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 Wes Johnson

   Role: Programmer

   Grade: 7

   Years in FIRST: 1

   Favorite memory: "Robotnado  tragedy of 2026"

   Reason you joined: "Because Theo told me to"

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Julian Wiggins 

   Role: Build Member

   Grade: 7

   Years in FIRST: 1

   Favorite memory: "Using the table saw"

   Reason you joined: "because I want to learn how to build a robot"

Mentors + Coaches

Our mentors help to oversee the team to make sure that our team is always going in the right direction. They also help guide our students by helping them find their full potential.

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Ben Lauderbaugh 

   Role: Coach

   Years in FIRST: 

   Favorite memory: ""

   Reason you joined: ""

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Cayla Lauderbaugh

   Role: Coach

   Years in FIRST: 4

   Favorite memory: Watching the students learn and grow...and the late night robotics laughter and shenanigans because we are all tired but have a deadline to meet.

   Reason you joined: To help my husband coach because nobody else wanted the job and I was already doing everything he couldn't at home to help out anyway.

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Craig Starr

   Role: Fabrication Mentor

   Years in FIRST: 

   Favorite memory: "------"

   Reason you joined: "------"

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Scott

   Role: Fabrication mentor 

   Years in FIRST: ------

   Favorite memory: "------"

   Reason you joined: "------"

Bret Lauderbaugh

   Role: Fabrication Mentor

   Years in FIRST: 

   Favorite memory: "------"

   Reason you joined: "------"

 Ian Anderson   

   Role: Alumini Programing Mentor

   Years in FIRST: 5

   Favorite memory: "   "

   Reason you joined: ""

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Bob

   Role: ------

   Years in FIRST: ------

   Favorite memory: "------"

   Reason you joined: "------"

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