Seniors
Alex Kastning (AK) is a Senior returning to our team for his third year. He’s been heavily involved on the build team, helping us construct our first swerve drivebase last season. He also served as a driver during the 2021 season’s virtual competition.
Amanda Poetter is a Senior in her third season with the MegaHertz. Her job titles have included media person, fundraiser, build team member, business lead, and Impact presenter, She was a Dean’s List nominee and human player in last season’s game.
Senior Ben Moeller is a programmer for Team 2847. Ben has been a driven team member and acted as scouting lead at competitions. The team looks to Ben and his stats when making those all-important alliance selections at competition.
Max Poetter is a new recruit to the team this year. He worked hard in the offseason to develop his programming skills to join the programming team for the 2024 competition.
Hudson Laven is another new recruit to the team this year. He has jumped in to support the build team wherever he’s needed.
Senior Isaac Sheard joined Team 2847 in the 2020-21 (virtual) season. Isaac is the programming lead and a 3D printing expert. He is one of our robot drivers, an experienced fundraiser for our team, and a frequent volunteer for outreach activities.
Juniors
Sam Grogin is a Junior on our team. He worked with the CAD and programming team and assisted with building the robot. He attended last year’s regional competition in Duluth and took on some important new roles there such as assisting in the pit and gathering scouting data in preparation for the alliance selection. Sam is always willing to lead the way during outreach activities and fundraising as well.
Noah Wolner is a Junior and second-year returning member to the team. He has served on several sub-teams including strategizing for the new game this season, working with the build team, assisting with outreach, designing team merch, and scouting at competitions.
Kaylee Nelson is a Junior and in her second season on the MegaHertz team. After Kaylee tried out a little bit of just about everything during the previous season, she became our team’s safety captain last year, documenting and supervising safety protocols in the shop and at competitions. Kaylee was named Safety All-Star at the 2023 Cedar Falls Competition in Iowa!
Sophomores
Sophomore Emma Jerred is a second-year returning member to Team 2847. After spending her first year focused on supporting our marketing and outreach projects, she has branched out to support all of our build team subsystems.
Sophomore Isaac Stone joined our team last year. He has focused on assisting the build team, dedicating numerous hours to design parts and bot construction. He’s been a major asset to the pit crew with efficiency and consistency.
Illyana Kelley joined the team this year. She has worked with the build and business teams. Her enthusiasm and infectious energy is a great bonus for our team.
Ainsley Malo, following in the footsteps of her older siblings (and dad), joined The Megahertz last year. She has aspirations to be on the drive team, but for now has assisted in all areas including marketing, building, outreach, and presenting the Impact Award for the team. She is serving as the Video Lead this season.
Jacob Murphy is in his second season with Team 2847. He has spent time supporting the build, media, and Impact teams. At competitions, he is excited to meet and make connections with other teams.
With a winter season devoid of activities, Jake Ehlert decided to join The Megahertz last year. He has gotten heavily involved in programming and the build team. He has joined the team in their outreach activities and gained some experience scouting at competitions.
Wylee Frederiksen joined the team this year. He has been a dedicated build team member, showing perseverance as he faced and overcame several challenges in his subsystem.
Freshman
Gabby Thoeny is new to the team this year. She is up for any project and has worked with the build team on the robot, field, and bumpers.
Jacob Kastning (JK) followed in the footsteps of his dad and older brother to join the Megahertz team this year. He has been one of the major field build crew and worked with our build team on their various projects.
Clark Hazard joined the team this year, as well. He works with the build team, developing his own skills to set him up well for future years.
Isaac Laiding joined the team this year during the off season. He had the opportunity to learn all aspects of the team at our off-season event and has taken that knowledge with him to assist the build team this season.
Colton Anderson is new to the team this year, but not new to robotics. He has taken the skills he learned in Junior High VEX to assist the build team this season.
Mentors
Mentors 2024 - Left to right: Sam Viesselman, Logan Kahler, Celia Simpson, Robert Malo, Cindy Viesselman, Bryan Kastning and Jason Nelson. Missing: Noah Johnson, Chad Moeller, and Sam Cave
Head Mentor Sam Viesselman is a MegaHertz alumni (FHS 2011 graduate). He served as an assistant mentor in 2017 and has been the head mentor since the 2018 season. He is a software engineer at Kahler Automation in Fairmont.
Assistant Mentor Logan Kahler has been with the team since 2019 and specializes in programming. He is the Chief Software Architect at Kahler Automation in Fairmont.
Assistant Mentor Celia Simpson joined the MegaHertz during the 2022-23 season. She assists with build and business teams. Celia is an alumni of the team (2018 FHS graduate). She works as a Community and Business Development Specialist with CEDA.
Robert Malo joined the team as an assistant mentor during the 2020 season and works with the CAD and build teams. He is a design engineer at Precision Tool, Inc., in New Ulm.
Assistant Mentor Cindy Viesselman joined Team 2847 in 2018. She is a retired educator. She works with fundraising, marketing, social media and logistics for the team.
Bryan Kastning is a new assistant mentor for the team this year. He works with the build team. Bryan is employed at Olson Rentals.
Assistant Mentor Jason Nelson joined the MegaHertz during its 2022 season. He supervises the wiring and other aspects of building the robot. Jason is the Network Administrator for Martin County.
Noah Johnson (missing from photo) is in his third year of mentoring. He works with the programming sub-team. He is employed at Kahler Automation as a software developer.
Chad Moeller (missing from photo) joined the MegaHertz last season. He assists the build team with their many projects. Chad is a local farmer.
Sam Cave (missing from photo) is new to the MegaHertz mentor team. He works with the build team. He is employed at Kahler Automation.