Student Director / Imagine RIT Coordinator: Amber Houle
Amber is a third-year Mechanical Engineering major. She is currently serving as the Student Director and the Imagine RIT Coordinator. She is also on the Arm Team for Rovers. She enjoys the engineering design process and anything robotics. She also loves rubber ducks, and usually has a couple mini ducks in her pocket or backpack for anyone that wants one.
Deputy Director / Rovers Team Lead: Ethan Leone
Ethan is a fourth-year Mechanical Engineering major. He serves as our Deputy Director and Rovers Team Lead. He is interested in design, robotics, and automation, all of which come in to play with various aspects of making the rover. He has worked on the Rover's Chassis and Arm teams.
Treasurer: Kush Patel
Kush is a third-year Mechatronics major. He is currently serving as our Treasurer. He is on the Rovers Arm Team. He has helped to design and manufacture multiple joints on the arm. He is very interested in anything robotics related and is currently working on a potential redesign of the arm scaled down as a proof-of-concept.
Secretary / CubeSat Team Lead: Cameron Mead
Cameron is a second-year Software Engineering major. He is the current Secretary for SPEX as well as CubeSat Team Lead. CubeSat stood out to him from the moment he knew he was coming to RIT. He is excited to be contributing to getting RIT into space.
Media Coordinator: Bronwen Harris
Bronwen is a third year Diagnostic Medical Sonography Major. She serves as the Media Coordinator for SPEX. Ever since she was young, she has wanted to be an astronaut and go into space. ALthough her plans have brought her elsewhere, she is grateful to be working with SPEX.
Community Lead: Zoey Sugerman-Brozan
Zoey is a second-year Mechanical Engineering and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies double major. They serve as our Community Lead for SPEX. They have worked in CubeSat for two years, as the HAB Lead, as well as on both the Verifications and Avionics subteams. They are passionate about anything and everything space-related.
Rovers Team Lead: Cullen Straub
Cullen is a fifth-year Mechanical Engineering major. He serves as our Rovers Team Lead. He is interested in robotics, part design, and manufacturing optimization. He has worked on the rover's suspension system and soil collection and sampling system.
Astrodynamics Team Lead: Robert Tetreault
Robert is a sixth-year Computer Science Major. He serves as the Astrodynamics Team Lead. He has an interest in astronomy and likes to look at the stars. He was the programmer for astrodynamics this semester.
CubeSat Team Lead: Eva Peters
Eva is a third-year Mechanical Engineering major. She serves as the Cubesat Team Lead for SPEX. She was excited to work on something that would go into outer space. She appreciates SPEX for teaching her about the design process, brainstorming, and hands-on experience.
Biohabitat Lead: Will Wax
Will is a fifth-year Biomedical Engineering major. He serves as one of the Biohabitat Leads for SPEX. He has been on the Biohabitat team since his second year and became co-leads with Haley in their third year at RIT.
Biohabitat Lead: Haley Johnson
Haley is a fifth-year Biomedical Engineering major. She is our current Biohabitat Team Lead. She has previously served as the Diversity Chair.
VR Lead: Adam Schultzer
Adam is a fourth-year Computer Engineering major. He serves as the VR Team Lead for SPEX. He is interested in simulation, electronics, programming, and motion control.
