2006 Event Information

Judges

The Boston FIRST Regional Committee is pleased to announce that the following leaders in science, industry and academia joined us as judges on March 24 - 25, 2006. Our judge roster included some of the most notable names in their fields and is yet another of the many exciting aspects of our competition.

In alphabetical order:

Judge Name	Affiliation
James Earl Brown III	Polaris (retired)
Helen Greiner	Chairman & Co-founder iRobot
Anette 'Peko' Hosoi	MIT Mechanical Engineer
Bob Metcalfe	Inventor of the Ethernet, Polaris Venture Partners
Lori Park	Google
Sandy Pentland	MIT Media Lab
Ed Starr	President BBN (retired)
Robert Tinker	President & CEO Concord Consortium
Liza Vertinsky	Wolf Greenfield
Saku Vrtilek	Harvard Smithsonian
Steve Wozniak	Co-founder Apple Computer, Wheels of Zeus
Elizabeth Anne Zimmer	National Museum of Natural History

Judge Advisors

Judge Advisor Name	Affiliation
Sherra Kerns	VP Innovation/Research, Olin College of Engineering
Mikell Taylor (assistant)	Student, Olin College of Engineering