FIRST Nevada Alumni

FRC Team 8387 Advanced Technologies and FTC 14194 – Will be attending UNR, pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Dean List semi-finalist for FTC and FRC.

FRC Team 8717- Desert Oasis High School. Plans to attend college at UNLV. in NevadaCompetition volunteer

FRC Team 7426 – SECTA. Will be going to Utah for college.

FRC Team 7654 – Coral Academy. Will be attending the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and I will be pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

A participant on two FTC Teams (Nevada and Albania). Incoming freshmen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and will be majoring in AI and Decision Making.

Limelight Founder, Mentor, and Alum of FRC
(FIRST Robotics Competition) Team 987 (HIGHROLLERS).

Limelight is manufactured in a US factory and was developed 100% by
former students and mentors of FIRST teams.  

“Perception and its ever-deepening integration with robot planning and control are some of the only areas in robotics that have room to improve by several orders of magnitude. It is for this reason that we need as many students as possible to familiarize themselves with the promise of computer vision before they choose their career paths.

The Limelight Robotic Vision Platform makes cutting-edge computer vision as easy as possible for students since the resource most lacking in the FIRST Robotics community is software mentorship. Before Limelight, you could count on your hands the number of FIRST robotics teams utilizing computer vision to improve robot performance. Today, Limelight and vision-guided control are standard features for nearly every FIRST team, regardless of experience level. Rookie teams proudly send us videos of their robots autonomously completing tasks with Limelight, and top teams continue to win countless events with Limelight as the totality of their perception systems. Limelight is taking a giant leap toward enabling fully autonomous vision-based robots in 2023, so I’m incredibly excited to see what happens next.”  – Brandon Hjelstrom (Limelight Founder & FIRST Alum)

Graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 2015 with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Robotics Engineering. 2016-2018, Computer Science and Robotics Teacher at Cimarron-Memorial High School; Alumni & Coach of FRC Team 987, Coach of VRC Team 987, Coach of SkillsUSA Mobile Robotics, & Chess Coach. 2018-2022, Magnet & STEM Coordinator at Lied STEM Academy

987 Alum and Mentor. FIRST LEGO League Coach and FIRST Robotics Competition volunteer

Graduated University of Nevada, Reno with Masters in Computer Science and Engineering. Currently working remotely as a machine learning engineer. Awarded Northern Nevada Volunteer of the Year 2022.

Graduated Auburn University Aerospace Engineering (Swimming accomplishments include; 2017 World Championships; 8th in 800 meter freestyle, Bronze in 4x200meter freestyle relay. Auburn Record-Holder (500 free, 1000 free, 1650 free, 800 free relay. Currently training for 2020 Olympics)

Graduated University of California Berkley. Dual major Physics-Nuclear Engineering, Currently in PHD graduate program University of Wisconsin- Maddison Plasma Physics

Graduated from University of California Berkley Electrical Engineering

Graduated from University of Utah – Physics (First- and third-place awards at National Rifle Association’s Air Pistol National Championship 2017. Currently training for 2020 Olympics)

Graduated from University of California Santa Cruz Computer Engineering

Attending Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Major engineering

Attending University of Oregon

Attending University of Denver

Attending Bringham Young University

Attending Bringham Young University -Major Engineering

Attending University of Nevada, – Biology

Attending University of Nevada, CSE

Attending University of Colorado Boulder – Aerospace Engineering