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By day, Phil McDowell<\/strong> is chief engineer at Cobra Motorcycles<\/a>. \u00a0Cobra MOTO produces premium race-ready mini motocross bikes for youth riders that are serious about competing, starting at age 4! Cobras claim\u00a0more than 300 national titles since the company was founded in 1993.<\/p>\n By night and long weekends, Phil is also a coach of the FIRST Robotics Jonesville HS Robot Team<\/a> \u2013 FRC #5502.<\/p>\n Alivia Rebeck<\/strong>, a freshman at JHS designed the team shirts which were printed by a leading Cheer outfit supplier Defiance Sportswear<\/strong>. The team not only used SOLIDWORKS to design their robot but really put a lot of effort into their robot transportation cart.<\/p>\n With Phil\u2019s mentorship, the robot received a fresh paint job prior to the regional event from Collins Auto Body<\/strong> in Jonesville. Georgia McDowell<\/strong> made a custom license plate for it, along with some mag wheel polish made it stand out from across the arena. \u00a0Nice wheels!<\/p>\n It takes a lot of support to get a FRC team able to reach the Lansing, Michigan, FIRST Regional competition.\u00a0 Supporters also included HCCF<\/strong>, Mr. Rooter<\/strong>, RC Pro Shop<\/strong>, Comet<\/strong>, & SOLIDWORKS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The robot worked great, in fact it was adaptable enough in the hands of the students to physically pick up another robot during competition after it had accidentally fallen over! \u00a0This action caused a loss of valuable scoring time to help the fallen robot but the gracious act of professionalism did not go unnoticed as those in attendance broke into thunderous applause once they up righted the fallen mechanism.<\/p>\n The FRC #5502 performed well and learned a lot. \u00a0They were rewarded with the prestigious Imagery Award<\/strong> in memory of Jack Kamen<\/strong> which celebrates attractiveness in engineering and outstanding visual aesthetic integration of machine and team appearance.<\/p>\n \u201cThe team is bummed we didn\u2019t score better but are proud that their efforts in making a professional looking team where noticed\u201d says Coach McDowell.<\/p>\n FIRST mentors always talk about how FIRST is more than just the robot. \u00a0Gracious professionalism, teamwork, community support and students seeing how exciting engineering can be for our future\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 makes the SOLIDWORKS team honored to highlight Phil McDowell and Cobra Motorcycles.<\/p>\n Pictured are Alivia Rebeck<\/strong>, Brody Longman<\/strong>, Michael Pope<\/strong>, Randal McDowell<\/strong>, Dominik Balser<\/strong> and Coach Phil McDowell.<\/strong> \u00a0Thank you Phil for sharing with the SOLIDWORKS community and mentoring a team that has learned so much.\u00a0 Marie<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By day, Phil McDowell is chief engineer at Cobra Motorcycles. \u00a0Cobra MOTO produces premium race-ready mini motocross bikes for youth riders that are serious about competing, starting at age 4! 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