Sara's Introduction

Hi everyone, I'm Sara! I'm an Elementary Ed (grades 1-8) major and a science minor. I graduate in December and couldn't be happier!

I think our team is named Kamen after Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway. He also founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) to get students excited about and interested in science, engineering, and technology. FIRST runs a robotic competition for students called FIRST Robotics Competition and has other robotics clubs for all students from elementary school all the way through high school. Not only has Dean Kamen helped kids find a love of science, he's done it in a fun way and has reached out and encouraged those students who excel at robotics. Plus, he lives in a hexagonal house with secret passageways (how cool is that?!), has his own island, and his company DEKA is working on developing a brain-powered prosthetic limb. This guy is awesome :)

All information taken from Wired Magazine (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.09/kamen.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=)
and Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen).