Mentors

Our mentors hail from technical and nontechnical backgrounds, these mentors are crucial to the success of our team. However, they still allow us to work out problems independently and only offer assistance when requested or needed. 

TEAM MENTORS

Todd Alkire - Faculty Advisor (Pre-Engineering Teacher, North Canton Hoover High School)

Tim Fuller - Programming & Controls (Engineer, Babcock & Wilcox)

Gina Elkins - Strategy / Project Management (Product Specialist, The Timken Company)

Vern Sproat - Jack of All Trades (Adjunct Engineering Professor, Stark State College)

Philip Pfund - Mechanisms/Mechanical (Engineering Professor, Mount Union University)

Marina Cernik Kettler- Mechanisms (Chemical Engineer, Marathon Petroleum Company; FRC Team 118 Alum)

Chris Kettler- Electrical / CAD (Electrical Engineer, Powell Industries; FRC Team 118 Alum)

Victor Griswold - Programming & Controls, 

Willis Elkins - Strategy/Drive Team Coach, (FRC Team 4121 Alum)

Kerry Elkins - Strategy,  (FedEx Freight)

Kevin Fonner - Rockwell Automation

Brandon Hinderer - Alumni,  Mechanical Engineering Student at Akron University

John Derimiggio - Diebold-Nixdorf