Inaugural Youth Advisory Council Announced January 28, 2009

Students selected for the inaugural Botball Youth Advisory Council:

Anna Cyganowski, age 19, Rensselar Polytechnic Institute.
Arvind Harinder, age 15, Greater D.C. Region.
Tessa Niehoff, age 16, Greater D.C. Region.
Wesley Myers, age 18, Carnegie Mellon University.
Aaron Parker, age 18, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Jeffrey Hsu, age 16, Florida Region.
Matthew Thompson, age 17, Florida Region.
Jeff Chan, age 16, Northern California Region.
Joe McCormick, age 16, New England Region.
Jeremy Rand, age 19, Oklahoma Region.
Nick Uebele, age 15, Oklahoma Region.
Alexander Nabavi-Noori, age 14, Southern California Region.
Jake Sticka, age 17, Southern California Region.

These candidates were selected by a committee from a large pool of high quality candidates through a blind application review process.  The committee was overwhelmed by the number of highly qualified applicants and wants to make sure that applicants who were not accepted at this time and prospective applicants keep up their Botball promotional activities and submit an application in September. Read more