Team 56 ROBBE XTREME - FIRST Robotics Bound Brook & Ethicon

Jerry picture - Name: Jerry Fischer
- Email: jfischer@ethus.jnj.com
- Position/Title in ETHICON: Engineering Fellow
- Number of years at ETHICON: 30
- How do you like working at ETHICON? Great! I get to play mad scientist in the lab.
- Number of years participating with FIRST: 13
- Current role within FIRST: Design, Strategy, Curmudgeon
- Reason for joining FIRST: Like robots, kids and winning.
- Favorite thing about participating in FIRST: The competitions
- What is your favorite TV show(s)?: Dexter, Heroes and anything Star Trek
- What is your favorite book(s)?: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- What is your favorite quote or saying?: The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan
- Mention one thing about previous years’ competitions that you will always remember: Scoring nine tubes in one match in NYC
- Where did you go to college?: Rutgers and Lehigh
- What do you like the most about the FIRST Overdrive game this year?: Shooting very large objects over a 6.5 foot high bar
- What do you like the least about the FIRST Overdrive game this year?: Getting hit by very large objects shot over a 6.5 foot high bar
- How much weight do you think you gained from eating Pizza every single Saturday?: 5
- Feel free to add any other “PG-Rated” comments about yourself or the team: One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts. - Albert Einstein

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