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Ben Hibben
"That frst time I walked in, I was signifcantly
more shy than I am now. I remember watching
Chris (Cprek, former president) solder tiny
little components onto something he'd made,
and I just remember thinking: I can't believe I'm
allowed to hang out with these people. And now
I'm vice president."
Josh Wilcox
"I built a robot for Red Bull called Nex. It
was a female robot that shot Red Bull out of
itself. This was featured in Millennium Park
in Chicago at an art exhibit sponsored by Red
Bull."
Danielle Blank
"Like I said, all this stuff is done by members.
People will come and, because I am president,
they ask me, 'Oh, can I do this?' If you want
it to be done, do it. We call it 'do-ocracy,' sort
of some blend of democracy and anarchy,
and that's what's very empowering and
very fascinating about our collective. So the
common language that we share — that we do
things, we make things — values the thought
process, no matter who you are."
Nathan Armentrout
"It's a great sounding board when I'm stuck
with a problem. I lack so much experience with
building things to begin with, so when you can
talk to other people who have lived life and
gotten all those years of experience, you can
really learn a lot from how they solve problems.
A lot of times I like to take people's ideas and
see if I can apply them to something different."