The team

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Anil Patel: anil.patel@students.olin.edu
All around fabrication wizard Anil labored for many hours in the shopbot room fabricating parts for this project, so much so that his tears have caused permanent warping in the spoil board. He swears his relationship with the shopbot is strictly platonic, but his teammates have doubts. When he’s not coaxing cutting tools into the collets on the shopbot or dashing off to fabricate one last part on the mill, he enjoys kicking it to Macklemore and belting out Taylor Swift songs in the shower. He is a Claymation video master and he has won New Jersey Twitter Tweeter of the Year award 6 times. 

Alex Chapman: alex.chapman@students.olin.edu
​​Known around these parts as the “Mountain Man”, Alex was the principle engineer on the structure and housing of the project and acted as adult supervision for Anil during late night fabrication sessions. Alex finds inner peace from trekking through the wilderness of his native Washington, fending off the blizzards and the fearsome wild beasts with nothing but his bare knuckles and his grizzled beard. When he isn’t working on the project and being a general mechanical badass, he works on Formula and walks around the library twirling a Frisbee in his hand. 

Sean Szymanski: sean.szymanski@students.olin.edu
​Few people can pronounce his last name, fewer people can keep up in a footrace, and even fewer understand his peculiar eating habits. Mechanical Engineer Sean dove headfirst into the horizontal actuation of the cutter, bringing an enlightened west coast perspective to the project. The man from Issaquah and enjoys skiing, collecting Chuck E. Cheese tokens, and composing pseudo-postmodernist poetry. 

 Lucky Jordan: lakhvinder.jordan@students.olin.edu
​​Electrical Engineer and electron magician Lucky hails from objectively the best state in the Union, the great state of California, albeit from the worse half of it. We won’t hold it against him. Lucky was the lead of both the electrical and software teams on the project, a feat no less impressive even when considering he only had himself to manage. Lucky is also a part time exotic dancer, and can often be seen practicing his moves twirling his way down the 4E hallway, usually after eating large amounts of Taco Bell. 

Nathan Lepore: nathaniel.lepore@students.olin.edu
​​For Nate, the “horizontal slide” is more than just a dance move, it was his pride and joy of this project. Together with teammate Sean, he designed and build this critical subsystem of the project. When it finally worked, he cried, either tears of joy, relief, or both. Nate, a member of a mysterious group known only as OPIUM, is also an improv master and his favorite TV show is “Happy Days”.