It Begins

We are team "Fighting Beavers" in MIT's course 2.008. Our task is to create 50 custom yoyo's, utilizing injection molding, thermoforming, and our creativity. Our team is comprised of 6 Juniors in the Mechanical Engineering department:

Alasdair is an exchange student from Cambridge, England through the Cambridge-MIT exchange program. Having lived everywhere from Tanzania to Australia to England, he's now found himself at MIT for the year.

Rory is a captain of the varsity cross country team here. Originally from San Francisco, he is a huge outdoors enthusiast and is always looking forward to venturing out to the mountains as often as he can.

Karla is the Vice President of the Art club here, and has knack for graphic design and anything that can be considered art. Originally from San Diego, she misses the warmth of California every winter.

Akwasi grew up in New Jersey, and has become very involved on the sports Taekwondo team here. Currently also enrolled in 2.009, the mechanical engineering capstone design course, he has his hands full with lab and design courses this semester.

Kelly is from Southern California, and as to be expected, loves swimming, wake boarding, jetskiing, cliff jumping - anything to do with the beach and aquatic sports. It only makes sense that he is also on the varsity water polo team

Devin hails from the Washington D.C. area, but is always looking to travel anywhere that she can - both internationally and here in the U.S. She is also a member of the varsity lacrosse team here.

We've settled on a design for our yoyo based on the MIT fighting beaver, which is our athletics department logo. Incorporating sections of the beaver that will light up, we're excited to see what we can create!