Alumni

Andrea
Years on the Team 2005 Post Secondary Education UWO, Mechanical Engineering Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight Competition in Waterloo! What I learned from FIRST® How to use all kinds of tools.

Brady
Years on the Team 2004-2010 Post Secondary Education McMaster University, Mechanical Engineering Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight Winning that one time... What I learned from FIRST® GP.

Cale
Years on the Team 2007-2011 Post Secondary Education University of Waterloo, Mechanical Engineering Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight 2011 Championship Run What I learned from FIRST® Design Process, Communication and Leadership Skills. Bio In 2011, he served as the safety captain for our team, preparing a comprehensive team safety manual and organizing Emergency First Aid training for all of our members. Thanks to Cale's hard work FIRST® Team 781 received the Industrial Safety Award at the 2011 Waterloo Regional. Cale has also been a part of the web team in past years. Cale has been a member of Scouts Canada for several years now, even going on an expedition to Alberta. He enjoys working with boats and is a self-proclaimed car enthusiast. Cale was recently honoured with a Master Academic award and placed in the top 20% nationally in the Sir Isaac Newton physics contest. In 2010, he was the overall school champion in the Avogadro chemistry contest. Final Words FIRST® certainly influenced my decision to pursue post secondary in Engineering.

Cale

Years on the Team

2007-2011

Post Secondary Education

University of Waterloo, Mechanical Engineering

Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight

2011 Championship Run

What I learned from FIRST®

Design Process, Communication and Leadership Skills.

Bio

In 2011, he served as the safety captain for our team, preparing a comprehensive team safety manual and organizing Emergency First Aid training for all of our members. Thanks to Cale's hard work FIRST® Team 781 received the Industrial Safety Award at the 2011 Waterloo Regional. Cale has also been a part of the web team in past years.
Cale has been a member of Scouts Canada for several years now, even going on an expedition to Alberta. He enjoys working with boats and is a self-proclaimed car enthusiast. Cale was recently honoured with a Master Academic award and placed in the top 20% nationally in the Sir Isaac Newton physics contest. In 2010, he was the overall school champion in the Avogadro chemistry contest.

Final Words

FIRST® certainly influenced my decision to pursue post secondary in Engineering.

Dallas
Years on the Team 2007-2011 Post Secondary Education McMaster University, Engineering Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight St. Louis. What I learned from FIRST® Robotics is awesome, and assisting is more important than winning. Final Words Hello. If you are reading this, consider yourself an awesome person.

David C.
Years on the Team 2004-2009 Post Secondary Education McMaster University, Computer Science Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight The first time I saw Big Bruce C lift itself at the Hershey Centre.

David Y.
Years on the Team 2010-2011 Post Secondary Education McMaster University, Integrated Science Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight Playing Yahtzee with friends and watching The Room. What I learned from FIRST® I learned that everyone has untapped potential, all you have to do is look. Final Words Team 781 has been lots of fun. Good luck team!

Holly
Years on the Team 2008-2011 Post Secondary Education University of Waterloo, Math/ Chartered Accountancy Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight Receiving the first Best Website award in 2009 for Team 781 at the Waterloo Regional What I learned from FIRST® Working as a team, managing my priorities, and a lot of talking. Bio Since becoming the Team 781 webmaster in 2009, Holly's websites have earned a total of four regional. The sites also earned a website excellence award in each of Holly's three seasons with the team. Holly has designed all of the page layouts and provides code for them. She has also written much of the content that can be found on our website. Every member of our current web team has been trained by Holly. Holly is fluent in two languages. Holly was also a member of OSAID, students' council and the badminton team while at KDSS. She placed first in our school in the 2011 Sir Isaac Newton physics contest. Final Words I LOVED my time on the team! It was like a second home and the members were a second family!

Holly

Years on the Team

2008-2011

Post Secondary Education

University of Waterloo, Math/ Chartered Accountancy

Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight

Receiving the first Best Website award in 2009 for Team 781 at the Waterloo Regional

What I learned from FIRST®

Working as a team, managing my priorities, and a lot of talking.

Bio

Since becoming the Team 781 webmaster in 2009, Holly's websites have earned a total of four regional. The sites also earned a website excellence award in each of Holly's three seasons with the team. Holly has designed all of the page layouts and provides code for them. She has also written much of the content that can be found on our website. Every member of our current web team has been trained by Holly.
Holly is fluent in two languages. Holly was also a member of OSAID, students' council and the badminton team while at KDSS. She placed first in our school in the 2011 Sir Isaac Newton physics contest.

Final Words

I LOVED my time on the team! It was like a second home and the members were a second family!

Jake M.
Years on the Team 2005 Post Secondary Education Lambton College, Mechanical Technician, Industrial Maintenance Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight The only driver to ever single handily disable all 3 opposing bots within the rules, but still ended up D. Q’d What I learned from FIRST® Dean Kamen is cool.

Kanza
Years on the Team 2007-2011 Post Secondary Education Ryerson University, Biomedical Engineering Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight Doing the team's first ever chairman's award presentation What I learned from FIRST® That girls can be engineers. Yes, it's daunting when you walk into that first robotics meeting and seeing a male-dominated environment, but if you can make progress in that, then you can do it just as easily when you walk into your first physics lecture, where 95% of your lecture hall is male. Engineering isn't a man's job, it's a designer's job.

Kanza

Years on the Team

2007-2011

Post Secondary Education

Ryerson University, Biomedical Engineering

Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight

Doing the team's first ever chairman's award presentation

What I learned from FIRST®

That girls can be engineers. Yes, it's daunting when you walk into that first robotics meeting and seeing a male-dominated environment, but if you can make progress in that, then you can do it just as easily when you walk into your first physics lecture, where 95% of your lecture hall is male. Engineering isn't a man's job, it's a designer's job.

Lia
Years on the Team 2006-2011 Post Secondary Education York University Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight The energy at the competitions. its something you can't find anywhere else. What I learned from FIRST® Robotics isn't just about building Robots. It's organization and leadership skills, and much more.

Shannon
Years on the Team 2005-2007 Post Secondary Education University of Western Ontario, Heath Sciences Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight Learning new things and meeting new people. What I learned from FIRST® How to use tools.

Stewart
Years on the Team 2006-2011 Post Secondary Education Seneca, Bachelor of Technology Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight Sliders. What I learned from FIRST® GP.

Sven
Years on the Team 2007-2011 Post Secondary Education University of Waterloo, Mechatronics Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight Making it to IRI, being World Finalists What you learned from FIRST® Improved my leadership capabilities. Bio Sven has been a crucial part of the build team since he first joined the Kinetic Knights in Gr. 9. His designs have been used on several of our robots and he has trained many team members over the years. Sven's dedication to the team is evident in everything he does, whether it be convincing Justin Trudeau to check out the robot or driving that same robot all the way to the World Championship Finals. 2011 was a huge year for FIRST® Team 781 and as build captain, Sven was a huge contributor to that success. It takes excellent leadership to make it to Einstein and we were lucky enough to have that in Sven. We can only hope that he will come back to teach us some of his German magic. During the off-season, Sven works on his family's organic farm. He is fluent in both English and German. Sven recently won the University of Waterloo's FIRST® Mechatronics scholarship. Sven also enjoys watching movies with friends. His favourite movie is The Room, which he has watched at countless robotics competitions. Sven placed in the top 20% nationally on the Sir Isaac Newton physics contest and in the top 10% on the Euclid contest. Final Words Cool story, bro.

Sven

Years on the Team

2007-2011

Post Secondary Education

University of Waterloo, Mechatronics

Favourite Memory as a Kinetic Knight

Making it to IRI, being World Finalists

What you learned from FIRST®

Improved my leadership capabilities.

Bio

Sven has been a crucial part of the build team since he first joined the Kinetic Knights in Gr. 9. His designs have been used on several of our robots and he has trained many team members over the years. Sven's dedication to the team is evident in everything he does, whether it be convincing Justin Trudeau to check out the robot or driving that same robot all the way to the World Championship Finals. 2011 was a huge year for FIRST® Team 781 and as build captain, Sven was a huge contributor to that success. It takes excellent leadership to make it to Einstein and we were lucky enough to have that in Sven. We can only hope that he will come back to teach us some of his German magic.
During the off-season, Sven works on his family's organic farm. He is fluent in both English and German. Sven recently won the University of Waterloo's FIRST® Mechatronics scholarship. Sven also enjoys watching movies with friends. His favourite movie is The Room, which he has watched at countless robotics competitions. Sven placed in the top 20% nationally on the Sir Isaac Newton physics contest and in the top 10% on the Euclid contest.

Final Words

Cool story, bro.

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