Meet The Senior
Name: Kurtis Kalagher Number of years on the team: 4
Why did you join: I joined Buzz Robotics thanks to a family friend, Liz Donovan. She brought me along to one of the competitions one day so I could see what truly happens in Buzz Robotics. Once there, I fell in love, from watching robots race across a field and kids in the pit fixing their robot.
Favorite part of Buzz: My favorite part of Buzz is being able to work on the Newsletter. It is a different side of Buzz, apart from the engineering side, it is the marketing side. It just shows that Buzz Robotics can supply their students with skills that can be used in different career field such as journalism, teaching, or much more.
Most memorable moment in your time on Buzz: During my freshman year of Buzz Robotics the team took the annual trip to the World Championships thanks to our Chairman’ s Award. As we went through the competition we started to win our challenges until we made it to the finals in our division. After the final match we had thought we had won and went to Einstein. However, we had lost, but that thrill of almost winning was invigorating.
Future plans: I have applied to multiple colleges. Of the ones I have been accepted into, I chose Springfield College. I am going for secondary education in biology. After working with buzz, the one thing I’ ve admired about mentors is how they are able to teach us so much and so I hope I may be a great teacher as they are.
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