Alex Crease

Alex is a product designer and mechanical engineer who always loves making things to teach and inspire! He brings his expertise in aesthetics, materials, marketing and puns to keep Team Valkyrie cheerful and good-looking on BattleBots.

Bam Singhasaneh

Bam is a magical combination of engineer, designer, math teacher, and entrepreneur. She is Valkyrie’s newest driver and brings 250% energy to the BattleBox. She is always ready for a pep talk to get the team pumped to compete!

Peter
Schmehl

Peter is an inventor and seasoned mechanical engineer with extensive experience in additive manufacturing and automation. He joins the team to help with Valkyrie’s design goals for the next season.

Regan Tattersfield

Regan is a mechanical design engineer that works on robots of all sizes, mostly for defensive military applications. She has been working on turning her blood into caffeine but somehow always needs a nap. She loves the excitement and the strategic engineering behind each Valkyrie fight.

Leanne Cushing

Leanne has come back to captain Valkyrie after a break from 2022 to 2023. She is an experienced mechanical engineer who describes herself as having a life long robot problem. Her passion for engineering stems from learning new things and mentoring the next generation of innovators, which fuels her work on Valkyrie.

Esme Abbot

Esme is a mechanical engineering student passionate about understanding how machines interact with people and the larger systems that they are a part of. Esme is still learning how to tolerance drawings and is therefore very well acquainted with the Valkyrie dremel.

John Mayo

John is a robotics mechanical engineer with a passion for space exploration. He has worked on robots in many environments from the subterranean to Mars. This experience helps him ensure Valkyrie is ready for launch fight after fight.

George Tan

George is an electrical engineer on paper with a passion for learning and helping people. He’s the electrical guy on the team and ensures Valkyrie doesn’t have any issues in a fight. Off stage, he spends his spare time teaching kids STEM through robotics.

Lucas Buermeyer

Lucas is a team member we’ve borrowed from our good friends on Ribbot. He has almost a decade of robotics experience and has been essential in the creation of some of Valkyrie’s recent design improvements.

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