Team Captains
Gabby Casteñada
Gabby is an instrumental part of the mechanics and drive teams. Last year she played the role of human player during games, helping 1418 win numerous matches.
Daraius Boston
Daraius, our head mechanic, has been a part of 1418 for 5 years. During competitions, he plays the role of Drive Coach.
Carter Fendley
Carter is our team's lead programmer. He specializes in robot code and augmented reality interfaces. He will drive our robot during 2017 competition. Check out his website!
Team Members
Camile Borja
Camile is the leader of 1418's scouting team. She's also part of the outreach team, and is one of the main chairman's award managers.
Michael Murphy
Michael is part of the mechanics team. He's also part of the school stage crew, which helps to build parts for our practice fields.
Erik Boesen
Erik is a programmer on the team. He additionally works on outreach and fundraising as well as managing the team website and leading the development of VictiScout, our team's scouting framework. He also leads the UI team and is the creator of FRC Dashboard. Check out his website here.
Ben Fong
Ben is the battery master for 1418, as well as part of the mechanics team.
Katherine Reinke
Katherine is the safety captain of the team. Additionally, she is part of the outreach team.
Freddy Bruner
Freddy leads the 3D Printing & fabrication team, and has made several impressive pieces, such as a working gauntlet & shield for our Stronghold game. He also is part of the art & design team.
Nicholas Costa
Nicholas is training to lead the User Interface (UI) team, and is the head JavaScript developer. He also occasionally works on the team website. See his website for more information.
Aki Maher
Aki is the director of art on 1418. He is also the last remaining original member of the UI team.
Addison Rasmussen
Addison is training to be part of the mechanics team.
Albert Lin
Albert is new to the team and is training to be part of the programming team.
Ian Leach
Ian is the team videographer. He helps record, edit, and produce many of 1418's promotional videos.
Usman Khan
Usman is a new member of the team, and is training to be a mechanic and to help with the team website.
Acacia Wyckoff
Acacia, an alumnus of Team 2538, is part of our robot code team.
Adrian Hall
Adrian is a new member training to be part of the programming team.
Erik Bjorklund
Erik is new to the team, and is training to be a general programmer.
Stephen Hoag
Stephen is a new member of the team and is training to be a programmer.
Tristan Charpentier
Tristan is our team cybersecurity expert and training as part of the vision team. He is also working on the server of VictiScout.
Josh Nicholson
Josh is training to be a programmer.
Keenan Hom
Keenan is training to be a programmer.
Hannah Rossi
Hannah is training to be a UI programmer.
Emma Foley
Emma is training to be a UI programmer.
Carolyn Baek
Carolyn is new to the team and is training to be a mechanic.
Sami Altarazi
Sami is training to be a programmer.
Chris Boerner
Chris is training to be a programmer.
Andre Nelson
Andre is training to be a programmer.
Tate Ward
Tate is new to the team and is training to be a programmer.
John Grondelski
John is new to the team and is training to be a programmer.
Cooper McGuire
Cooper is part of our FTC team and is a mechanic.
Elliot Biller
Elliot is part of the mechanics team.
Christian Autor
Christian is new to the team.
Andrew Blenke
Andrew is new to the team and is training to be a programmer.
Sarah Fong
Sarah is training to be part of our outreach and scouting teams.
Sofia Heartney
Sofia is new to the team and is training to be a mechanic.
Evan Lawrence
Evan is a new member of the team.
Lara Riyad
Lara is a new member of the team.
Tahaseen Shaik
Tahaseen is training to be a programmer.
Arianna Turner
Arianna is a new member of the team.
Benjamin Updike
Ben is a new member of the team who also helps on our FTC team.
Nicholas Upham
Nicholas is a new member of the team.
Sarah Valley
Sarah Valley is a new member of the team.
Guangyao Zheng
Guangyao is a new member of the team who is training to be a programmer.
Jake Leach
Jake is a new member of the team who additionally helps with FTC.
Kaylee Stillwagoner
Kaylee is a new member of the team.