About Us
We are the Bellarmine Preparatory Student Engineering Program (BPSEP). We are a student led group that participates in engineering, science, and technology challenges, primarily the FIRST program. We also coordinate, and complete most technical set up for school events.
We were founded as a club in 1999 by Mr. Kevin Ross, and Mr. Paul Roush as FIRST Robotics Team 360, the Rainier Roboteers. We are the first FIRST team to start up and be sustained in Washington state. Since then the team has changed its name to The Revolution. Also, in 2007 we decided that within our school the math, science, and engineering kids needed a place, and the team needed to live beyond its current head mentor, so we took the team into the more broadened BPSEP, becoming the first extra-curricular club at our school to morph from an extracurricular club, to a set in program.
Currently our mentors are Mr. Eric Stokely, who joined us in 2001 from San Jose California and is currently the head mentor and a teacher at BPS, Mr. Paul Roush, who is an alumni of BPS, works in the shipyards as a mechanical engineer, and has been with the team since its inception, Mr. Ken Dam, teacher at Clover Park Technical College, who teaches his students machining through making parts for our team, and Mr. Lyle Watts, who joined us in 2008, and mentors us in the programming department. Mr. Kevin Ross has since moved to Carnation, and now runs FIRSTWA, the organization in charge of all things FIRST for Washington state.
The team currently has about 45 members from grades nine through twelve. It competes in FTC, and FRC competitions and mentors other JFLL, FLL, FTC, and FRC teams extensively in the surrounding areas.
