Nealon Barker
- Year Joined: 2007
- Team(s): FTC 392, FTC 1885, FRC 1885, Mentor
- Company: Bestbuy, NVCC Student
- Fun Fact: Trying to "buckle up" does not work when your seat belt is securing the robot in the back seat.
- Favorite Memory: Making a bet with the FTC announcer at states that if FTC 1885 made it to worlds he would wear a purple speedo. Handing him the purple speedo at worlds.
David Boyd
- Year Joined: 2007
- Team(s): FRC & FTC Mentor
- Company: Lorenz Research
- Fun Fact: Jack of many trades and master of none.
- Favorite Memory: Watching the rookie team compete from Baghdad
Jacob Cohen
- Year Joined: 2007
- Team(s): FTC 354, FTC 1885, FRC 1885, Mentor
- Company: Data Tactics, Chromative Collaborative, GMU Student
- Fun Fact: "Most people have a cap on how much they know, Jacob just keeps learning and has no cap."
- Favorite Memory: FTC 1885 going undefeated at the 2010 Delaware Regional
Gail Drake
- Year Joined: 2005
- Team(s): Head Coach for FRC 1885, 8 FTC Teams, 1 FLL Team, "Teach the teachers"
- Company: Battlefield High School, Northern Virginia Community College
- Fun Fact: I am now 4 years past my "agreed" time period to teach and coach.
- Favorite Memory: Rookie World Championship "Rookie All Star"
Nathan Hagan
- Year Joined: 2008
- Team(s): FRC 1885, Mentor
- Company: US Navy, Chromative Collaborative, Webb Institute
- Fun Fact: "Nathan has such a positive attitude that he projects a positive influcence on younger roboticans to the extent that they give back after their experience."
- Favorite Memory: The all-nighter before website was due on my rookie year.
Steen Hambric
- Year Joined: 2009
- Team(s): FRC/FTC mentor
- Company: U.S. House of Representatives
- Fun Fact: "Steen has 441 bosses"
- Favorite Memory: FTC World Championship 2010 (Atlanta)
Seth Hutchins
- Year Joined: 2009
- Team(s): FRC/FTC Mentor
- Company: BAE Systems
- Fun Fact: I have learned that it is unhelpful to take bolts apart. The build team discourages this.
- Favorite Memory: When students' code finally works as expected.
Jesse Knight
- Year Joined: 2007
- Team(s): FRC/FTC Mentor
- Company: Lockheed Martin
- Fun Fact: ChiefDelphi guru; Team robot historian; Programmer (for a living) by day & CAD maniac by night; my Husky doesn't like our robot; 8th season of FRC; 250 FRC, FTC, FVC matches coached, 120 FRC, FTC, VEX matches ref'ed; FLL Regional Judge Coordinator
- Favorite Memory: Hurdling for the first time, then promptly tipping over, in Atlanta '08.
Paul Lahann
- Year Joined: 2005
- Team(s): FRC/FTC Mentor
- Company: INCOSE
- Fun Fact: "Paul is so busy interested in all aspects of FIRST, that he has become a local leader as expert of FRC"
- Favorite Memory: At Worlds our rookie year, witnessing how the FIRST experience grew strength at even FLL level.
Wei Lau
- Year Joined: 2006
- Team(s): FRC/FTC Mentor
- Company: Data Tactics
- Fun Fact: Given Special Pokemon Powers Over Students: Take it apart and build it better
- Favorite Memory: Playing at Las Vegas Regional
Jacob Laverty
- Year Joined: 2010
- Team(s): FTC 354, FRC 1885, Mentor
- Company: George Mason University
- Fun Fact: Woman or Robotics ???? Hmmm….. Its Little Lav _ BOTH !!
- Favorite Memory: Working…nonstop.
Larry Laverty
- Year Joined: 2010
- Team(s): FRC Mentor
- Company: Micron Technology
- Fun Fact: "Self taught and brilliant"
- Favorite Memory: Tuning the robot to perform with perfection on the World field.
Dennis Luban
- Year Joined: 2010
- Team(s): FRC Mentor
- Company: Lookheed Martin
- Fun Fact: "The answer is always, "YES, I can find a way to make that". Dennis has raised two young engineers that followed in his footsteps.
- Favorite Memory: Helping students learn to create prototypes of their designs and the safe use of the machinery we have for them.
Kyle Missar
- Year Joined: 2007
- Team(s): FTC 354, FTC 1885, FRC 1885, Mentor
- Company: NVCC
- Fun Fact: N/A (No Fun Allowed)
- Favorite Memory: its all a blur
Greg Morton
- Year Joined: 2012
- Team(s): FRC Mentor
- Company: classified
- Fun Fact: "I intend to leave my mark on ILITE in my first year. This team is very advanced so I am digging deep to leave my mark."
- Favorite Memory: ..those memories are just starting
Mike Powell
- Year Joined: 2009
- Team(s): FRC/FTC Mentor
- Company: VaST, Inc.
- Fun Fact: "Mike risks his life multiple times a year to save a military life."
- Favorite Memory: Hearing a young girl exclaim--after arriving at a FTC regional with a team from a disadvantaged school system with no robot and having iLITE build a basic robot for them that morning--"I get to drive a robot. It’s a DREAM COME TRUE."
Joe Risi
- Year Joined: 2007
- Team(s): FRC Alumni, Mentor
- Company: BAE Systems, George Mason University
- Fun Fact: Known as "Risi PC's"
- Favorite Memory: Delivering Chairman's Presentation
Rebecca Wescott
- Year Joined: 2010
- Team(s): FRC Alumni, Mentor
- Company: Virginia Tech
- Fun Fact: Interested in how to work in politics and move the nation forward in STEM
- Favorite Memory: Teaching the team to dance for their prom :)
Team Info
Team Number: 1885
Team Name: ILITE Robotics
Team Motto: Inspiring Leaders in Technology and Engineering
Rookie Year: 2005
Location: Haymarket, VA
Quick Overview:
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