Our Team

John Ziegler: Programmer(XBC and some Handyboard) blogger, webmaster

John is the sole programmer on the team. He is also the webpage designer and a blogger every once in a while. He usually just dictates to Patrick the time comes to blog. In his free time, John likes to enjoy his pathetic life of programming, video games, sleeping, and waiting to get paid(he really wants a new Linux laptop). He also enjoys playing a nice, long round of golf in the spring and summer.



Colin Polmeranz: Builder, Blogger, programmer(Handyboard)

Colin got interested in Botball through his brother, who played a large role in our team the last couple of years. Colin is the builder of our XBC bot, "Griff". He can also be found typing up all of our blogs due to his amazing words-per-minute ratio. In his spare time, he's usually playing soccer or video games.



Bret Woods: Builder, programmer(Handyboard)

Bret is friends with Colin, and got dragged into this mess by him. Now he's the builder of our handyboard bot, the "Scarab." When he's not at botball, Bret can usually be found hanging out with Colin or watching the history channel.



Patrick Zebron: error checker and food getter

Patrick is always there to check our programs and tell us where the errors are, like a human spell checker for programming. Patirck has one of the most important jobs in all of botball - the food supplier. If were all tired and hungry, he's always there to walk up to McDonalds or the pizza place and provide us with the energy we need to get the job done. If Patrick isn't grabbing us food or checking for erros, he's playing golf with John or listening to music.


Thanks to Ms. Hertel and Mr. Willis for being our sponsers, and giving up their afternoons to help us build and program our robots.