We're The Robosports Network.
We're a group of FIRST Robotics Competition alumni who are passionate about sharing our knowledge and experiences with the community. We've been broadcasting live shows and creating content for the FRC community since 2014.
Ty Tremblay
Ty Tremblay is an FRC alumnus and mentor, having been involved with the program since 2004. He has been a mentor for teams 319, 190, and 2713, and has been a volunteer in various roles at events across New England. Ty has developed several useful software tools for FRC, including QR Scout and FRCVideoSplitter. He is currently Senior Manager of Web Appliacations at Realtime Robotics. ...
Steve Kaneb
Steve joined FIRST for the 2006 season with FRC190 and currently mentors FRC2910. He is the Lead CNC Operator at Swerve Drive Specialties, and tries to attend as many competitions as he can as a volunteer or mentor. ...
Matt Starke
Matt joined FIRST in 2003 as a freshman in high school with FRC340 and was hooked. In college, he mentored FRC 1126 and started team resources including FRC Designs and the Blue Alliance Blog. Currently, he is a Technology & Engineering Education Teacher at the Liverpool Central School District. He leads a Drone Technology program at his school at well as the VRC 174 robotics program. ...
Ruth Toomey
Ruth joined FIRST as a student in 2006 and never looked back. She is an aluma of 1735, has mentored with 190, 319, 1024, and is currently a mentor with 2713. Ruth also volunteers as a Judge across all FIRST programs, and as Master of Ceremonies and Game Announcing in FRC. She works for Sphero, Inc in Customer Success as the primary interface for deployment and robot support for end users. ...
Mason Markee
Mason Markee ignited his passions for robotics during middle school years starting with BEST Robotics and graduating to the FIRST Robotics Competition. Mason actively participated as a student of Team 118, The Robonauts four years as a student. Mason rejoined the team as a mentor in 2008 and served as drive coach until 2016, the season Mason was honored to win the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award. Ma ...
Karthik Kanagasabapathy
Karthik Kanagsabapathy has designed competition robotics games that have been played by over 75,000 teams of students across the globe. He has won numerous awards for his dedication to furthering robotics education, including the prestigious Woodie Flowers Finalist Award for exemplary mentoring in FIRST. He was lead mentor for Team 1114 from 2004-2016, where he was a pioneer of FIRST analytics, he ...
Justin Foss
Justin got involved with FIRST in 2003 as a student and never left. He is currently working as a Quality Engineer at Prodrive Techolonies in The Netherlands. He's an alumni of 176 and has mentored 229, 2168, 558 and 4481. Additionally he has volunteered within FIRST as a judge advisor, judge, referee, game announcer and robot inspector. ...
Izzy Thalman
Izzy is an alumni of 2338 Gear it Forward, joining FRC as a junior in High School in 2017. She currently works as a System Engineer for Siemens. She also has been a FIRST Impact Award mentor since 2018, earning a total of 4 Regional Impact Awards with 6413 Degrees of Freedom and more recently, 498 The Cobra Commanders. She has also been a planning committee member of the Arizona Robotics League si ...
Dave Powers
Dave grew up around FIRST, his dad started a team in 1998 and he hasn't been able to escape since. Dave is a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Formlabs, an alumni of FRC228, and is the current lead mentor for FRC6328. In the past, he's mentored FRC1678, and has volunteeried as a Volunteer Coordinator and Master of Ceremonies. ...