FIRST Alum Spotlight: Michael Hodson
Feb 07, 2019 Written by Michael Hodson, FIRST Alum
FIRST® Alum Michael Hodson nurtured his interest in robotics and automation as a programmer on his high school FIRST® Tech Challenge team, the Mecha-Hampsters, in Greenwood, Indiana. Now, he’s a software developer for a specialized combine team at John Deere, coding user interfaces and algorithms to advance technology in the agriculture sector. “The time I spent at robotics meetings really helped cement in my mind my desire to create innovative automated solutions for interesting problems, and now I do that every day,” he says.