Mr. Sackett has been a teacher at South River High School for three years. He has been the head mentor of team 1111 for two years and loving every minute of it. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 2007 with a degree in Technology Education and now teaches engineering classes in South River's STEM magnet program. He oversees all things involved with the Power Hawks organization, handling administrative repsonsibilities, planning, and scheduleing. His major responsibility is keeping one 40+ student varisty team and two 10 student FTC teams on track and motivated. He loves everything that FIRST stands for and works diligently promoting it in his classroom and beyond.

Richard “Dink” Chapman, our electrical coach, has been with the Power Hawks Team 1111 for five years. In addition to his own career as IT Director at the Executive Residence at the White House, Mr. Chapman devotes his time and energy after work toward mentoring to FIRST robotics. Mr. Chapman has encouraged Team 1111 student members to spread their wings, share their knowledge, and become mentors themselves; the Power Hawks Team, including Mr. Chapman, now mentors two elementary, two middle and two FTC high school robotics teams, and four Annapolis area Boys & Girls club teams. Having even yet more to offer, Mr. Chapman also serves as president of the 501c3 non profit Power Hawks Robotics Club, Incorporated which promotes and secures funds for FIRST Robotics programs within Anne Arundel County.

This is Mrs. Hutchison's second year with Team 1111, as her son is a sophomore on the team. She is a NEMO who helps with the business side of the team. Mostly, Mrs. Hutchison keeps Mr. Sackett organized! She also helps to focus the marketing committee, is the liaison between the Boys & Girls Club robotics director and the Power Hawks, and handles team permission slips.

Mrs. Hutchison's favorite part of robotics is watching like-minded kids work together to accomplish a common goal - just like in the real world!

Ms. Chapman joined the NEMOs of Team 1111 in her son's, Taylor C., first year on the team. Three years later and counting, she is an an active mentor with the Spirit team, fundraising, team building, and general organization. Ms. Chapman simply enjoys being around the Team and the energy and drive that each student and mentor brings into her life. She loves being a Mom and considers the Team family. Ms. Chapman is on the Board of Directors for the Power Hawks, Inc., nonprofit organization, which was recently established. Personal notes about Ms. Chapman: Baking cakes is her passion, her favorite color is green, she holds a B.S. in Economics, and is a self-identified Mother of a Super Nerd.

Mr. Marker joined our team four years ago. From the first kickoff broadcast in his son’s freshman year, Mr. Marker has been on board.

As a long time home builder with an architectural degree, Mr. Marker is an essential mentor for our drive and mechanism sub-teams. Seven days a week, above and beyond, Mr. Marker also mentors the team, as do all our mentors, in valuable non-engineering skills like dedication, commitment, sacrifice, perseverance, creative thinking…the list goes on and on.

Also a board member of our independent booster club, we hope to have Mr. Marker’s influence for years to come.

Mrs. Marker joined our team four years ago when she attended her first team meeting as the mother of a freshman. Knowing nothing of FIRST, but curious about the club her son had joined, Mrs. Marker walked out of the initial meeting with her eyes glazed over and her agenda book full. She was the 2006 Atlanta Nationals trip coordinator and from there her role grew. As a strong leader in the Power Hawks NEMO (Non-Engineering Mentor Organization), Mrs. Marker coordinates travel, lodging, lunches, fundraisers, etc.

Realizing during that “freshman” year that she did qualify as a mentor, albeit a non-engineering one, Mrs. Marker works with students on all projects she is involved with, mentoring them in organizational and accounting skills. As the mother of both a Senior and Sophomore, we know we have her hooked for at least two more years, as the treasurer of our newly formed independent 501 (c)(3) booster corporation, we think we have her hooked for even longer.

A Project Manager for the last 26 years with Lock Martin and Raytheon, Mr. Cruz has been responsible for projects ranging from Software Development to Forensic Accounting, in addtion to Construction Management and Disaster Recovery / Emergency Management. Brought into FIRST by his daughter some seven years ago, Mr. Cruz has stayed with the PowerHawks at South River High, in addition to mentoring an FLL team (the Power Cobras) and an FTC team (the Talons).

Mr. Reiman grew up in Port Washington, NY where in high school he was introduced to computer programming in 1977. He wrote programs in Basic on an early mini-computer that was donated to the school. From there he went on to attend Purdue University majoring in Computer Science. During his time at Purdue, he learned the Unix Operating System and wrote software in various programming languages including, Pascal, C, Basic, CoboL and assembly language. He graduated in 1984 and went to work for IBM in Gaithersburg, MD. At IBM, Mr. Reiman worked on government contracts in various roles such as programmer, tester and technical leader.

In 1996, he joined the U.S. Government as a programmer for the Department of Defense. He began working on his master’s degree from John Hopkins University and received it in 2006. Mr. Reiman continued to work on various different types of projects that help improve the security of the Unites States. As his interests changed, he eventually moved from programming to being a System Engineer. In this role he was the technical lead for various projects. He enjoyed his employment with DoD and eventually got the opportunity to be stationed in the United Kingdom for three years working with our British Allies.

Mr. Reiman has three children, the oldest of which got him involved in Team 1111. All three of them are involved in robotics and he is likely to be involved for some time. This is his second year on the team and he has mentored the programmers on the club’s two newly formed FTC teams as well as this year’s FRC team.

Mr. Kalin has a degree in Computer science combined with Electrical and Mechanical engineering. He has worked for Lockheed Martin for 25 years and is a senior satellite flight operations manager. for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He has been a mentor with the Power Hawks for the last 5 years. He provides engineering expertise in the areas of drive design, pneumatics, and mechanisms. His youngest son will start high school next year and is anxious to participate in the Power Hawks robotics program.

Speed is the Power Hawk’s “chief cook and bottle washer!”

Jeanne Bellis and her husband “Speed” joined our team 4 years ago, and with two sons on the team, Power Hawks Robotics is totally a family affair! Both of her sons were also lucky enough to have participated on FLL teams, so they have been a part of the FIRST family for the past 6 years. Jeanne has degree in Graphic design from the University of Maryland and has her own Graphic Design company. Ms. Jeanne’s talents are utilized by working with students to develop the marketing aspects of our team from t-shirts, to banners, to posters, to buttons. She especially enjoys watching when the creative juices of the students get fired up and they make the projects their own! This year when 8 teams were asked to host FLL Qualifiers in Maryland, just 6 weeks away, the Power Hawks quickly responded. Ms. Jeanne took on the responsibility of coordinating our first 2009 Power Hawks FLL Qualifier hosting 16 local FLL teams. Ms. Jeanne says the best part was watching the faces of the teams light up from their shared accomplishments, especially the faces of team members from the five Boys & Girls Club Teams who had never had this kind of experience ever. She also feels blessed to have found so many wonderful students (she can’t believe that all her friends on facebook are Team 1111 students!) and giving parents/mentors who make this experience truly a gift from their heart.

Kym Lyons became part of the Power Hawks Team 1111 family last year when her son, Michael, joined the team. She had no idea what FIRST robotics was all about at that time but liked what she saw right from the kick off event. She is in awe of the wonderful mentors the team has and the time they give to the team. Ms. Lyons is a strong believer in building ” Super Nerds”, working spacecraft testing and control for the navy she has a MSEE and sees the need for them daily. Last year she worked with the Power Hawks Team bringing lunches on Saturday during build season, working fundraisers selling hot dogs and hamburgers, and doing a carwash. This year she helped coordinate the 100 plus volunteers that worked the FLL qualifier competition the Power Hawks held at there high school in December and works on the Community Outreach committee. She is overwhelmed with gratitude for experience of being part of the Power Hawks Team 1111 family and all the people that make FIRST Robotics what it is.

Mrs. Zehner received her Bachelor’s Degree in Math in 1987. Since then she has worked as a contractor at NASA GSFC supporting various missions. She has a very round robin experience where she has done Operations for Shuttle and Payload (HST) attitude programs, Testing , FORTRAN, C, C++, and MOTIF Programming Development, FORTRAN, C Maintenance, Systems Administration for a Unix Operating System (pre-networking), Help Desk Management, Systems Engineering where she wrote and maintained various scripts, and Requirements Definition for a graphical User Interface program. She is currently utilizing all of my experience as a Configuration Management Officer for a rapid build spacecraft project. She became absorbed by the Robotics competition after her daughter joined during build season of 2008. Her daughter asked her to get involved, and she started coming every day. She has done many home projects along with my husband, so she is somewhat familiar with using power tools. Mrs. Zehner wanted to encourage all of the kids to work with the tools and supported their ideas. She tries to help out where the team seems to be short-handed.

Bob has always enjoyed tinkering with all types of engines and machines as well as electronics and computers. He is a U. S. Air Force Vietnam veteran originally from upstate New York. For many years he worked in Information Technology (IT), aligning and administering IT assets to continuously improve and be responsive to various business demands. He has extensive experience as a large systems project architect, integrator, planner, and manager. His clients in the U. S. and abroad included the IRS; U. S. Customs Service; Bank One; Nationwide Insurance; Bancomer (Mexico); Banamex (Mexico); Ministry of Interior (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia); Standard Insurance; Alex Brown; Rubbermaid Commercial Products and many others.

Bob is now retired and says he was lucky when his son joined the FIRST Robotics Team and gave him an opportunity to come along.

Hobbies: Building Computers and Networks; Home Improvement Projects; Lionel trains; Private Pilot.

Mr. Ted Dressel started working with the Power Hawks in the 2007 build. He’s been working with computers since 1984 and has brought some of that expertise to the Programming Team. He grew up 20 minutes from Disneyland in CA and attempted twice to be a parking attendant there. He failed both times! Alas, he took his work ethic and decided to do something more with it and attended UC San Diego where he received a BA degree in Computer Science. While at UCSD, he met his wife to be, Lisa, and eventually had two children, one of which was on the Power Hawks robotics team. In 2005, Ted Dressel tired of flying around for work and moved his family from San Diego to the Edgewater, MD where he works for Microsoft as a consultant to the US Army. Ted Dressel is a Principal Consultant with MCS (Microsoft Consultant Services) and has been a consultant at Microsoft for 11+ years. Prior to working with the Army, Mr. Dressel worked with the Navy and helped to create a web portal for the US support effort (all support came via Pacific Command) for the Tsunami in Dec 2004. Ted and Lisa Dressel sponsor Midshipmen at the US Naval Academy and have been at it since they moved to the area. You might call that their hobby.

A second generation metal worker, Mr. McCarter is a master welder whose company fabricates professional creations in wrought iron, stainless steel, and all types of aluminum. His interest in team 1111 grew after his daughter, Sam, currently a junior, joined the team 2 years ago.

His skills at metal crafting and structural engineering have become an integral part of the team, both in actual design requirements, as well as teaching sound metal working principles to our students.

In response to the urging of his grandson Mr. Lyons attended the regional competition in Annapolis in 2009. He came away from there with the feeling that “that is something I would like to get involved in”.

Mr. Lyons, a Registered Professional Electrical Engineer, with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Maryland began his career in electronics in 1951 when he enlisted in the US Navy and became an Electronics Technician. The majority of the time since has been spent in Electronics Systems (any and all kinds) Design, Programming, Test and Evaluation.

Mr. Lyons spends most of his time with the Power Hawks team wandering around, sticking his nose into things and passing on advice. He is enjoying putting his many years of Computer Hardware and Software design experience to work assisting and advising the students of Team 1111.