Systemetric
Don't Walk
Do The Robot
Mentors and Sponsors
Mentors
Systemetric is voluntarily supported by many mentors whose time and expertise allow us to successfully compete in the competitions we enter. Without their specialist knowledge and the services they provide we would not be able to build our robots. The team wishes to thank all our mentors, past and present, who have made it possible for us to compete. The mentors who have supported us in the 2010-2011 year are:
- Dave Massey - Team Supervisor, Hills Road Sixth Form College Teaching Staff
- Ashley Arbon - Engineering
- Steve Crammond - Engineering and Workshop Facilities
- Dave Garnett - Engineering
- Stuart Hurworth - Engineering
- Peter Newman - Ex-student, video production and fundraising
- Keith Seymour - Engineering
- Ben Temple-Heald - Ex-student, code monkey
- Jeff Temple-Heald - Team management
- Orry Verducci - Ex-student, marketing and web development
- Christine Wood - Reprography services, Hills Road Sixth Form College Staff
- Bill Young - Programming
Sponsors
Our sponsors provide us with the financial support and technical facilities to allow us to enter competitions and build our robots. Our sponsors this year are:
Citrix gives businesses the ability to embrace consumerization using virtualization, networking, collaboration and cloud technologies. With these technologies, we're transforming the way business is done. More than 230,000 enterprises rely on Citrix virtualization, networking and cloud solutions to deliver over 100 million corporate desktops and touch 75 percent of internet users each day. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2010 was over $1.87 billion.
For more than 85 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. With 2010 sales and revenues of $42.588 billion, Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company also is a leading services provider through Caterpillar Financial Services, Caterpillar Remanufacturing Services, Caterpillar Logistics Services and Progress Rail Services.
Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Researchers focus on more than 55 areas of computing and collaborate with leading academic, government and industry researchers to advance the state of the art. Microsoft Research Cambridge was set up in July 1997 with three researchers. Today over 100 researchers, mostly from Europe, are engaged in computer research at the lab.
ARM Holdings is the world's leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier and as such is at the heart of the development of digital electronic products. The world’s leading Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) use ARM technology in a wide variety of applications ranging from mobile handsets and digital set top boxes to car braking systems and network routers. Today ARM technology is used in more than 95% of the world’s mobile handsets and over one-quarter of all electronic devices. ARM is headquartered in Cambridge, UK, with over 15 billion ARM based chips shipped to date, and employing over 1700 people.
KnowledgeCenter was established in 2001 to provide industry recognised collaborative Document Management and Workflow products, and business solutions. KnowledgeCenter provides specialist business solutions to the insurance industry based around the strengths and capabilities of its knowledge management product, Kcenter. Its solutions are built on a profound knowledge of the insurance sector and the challenges of managing documents and business process in a competitive, regulated environment.
Metapurple is a small company in Cambridge devoted to software consultantcy and electronic innovation. It was formed in 1993 by Dave Garnett.
Trend Micro is a global leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services. With its 24/7 global support operations and dedication to innovative technologies and methodologies, Trend Micro protects its customers against an expanding range of threats that silently endanger business operations, personal information, and property.
NanoRacks provides repeatable access to the International Space Station micro-gravity environment. NanoRacks is dedicated to helping stimulate Space Station research by having developed a very low-cost 1 kilogram platform that puts micro-gravity projects within the budgetary realm of hundreds of universities, smaller organizations and first-time commercial space research users.
Marshall SDG, part of the Marshall Group based in Cambridge, focuses on the provision of specialist and urgent requirements such as the development of unmanned ground and air vehicles, special communication equipment and power management systems.
Qualcomm is a wireless telecommunications research and development company, as well as the largest fabless chip supplier in the world. They license communications technologies and provide communication services around the world. The world leader in next-generation mobile technologies, Qualcomm's ideas and inventions are driving wireless growth and helping to connect people to information, entertainment and one another.
