Category: Personal

when you walk into a room

Greg Needel Personal May 14, 2008

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 Do you ever get that feeling when you walk into the room that people were just talking about you? Worse yet it is the feeling when you are surrounded by friends and the tension in the room makes you feel like you just want to curl into a ball and disappear
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Old and New Friends

Greg Needel Personal May 3, 2008

It’s really funny the way life works in terms of the people that you meet and when they may come back into your life. In the past week or so I have pretty much gone through every emotion in the book. Feeling sorry for myself and my situation, to pleasantly optimistic about the future. Finally
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Change is on the horizon

Greg Needel Personal April 24, 2008

Thursday, 24 April 2008 Over the past couple weeks I have been doing a bit of soul searching. I knew something was wrong but I just couldn’t put my finger on it. I have been starting to think where I want to go in my career, and what I want to accomplish life. It has
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Greg Needel Personal February 15, 2008

So today my door bell rang and there was this kid giving me some fast talking line that I couldn’t even keep up with. All I could make out at first was: I am traveling the country trying to get points for some trip. Upon further conversation basically this kid, who looked like he rolled
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Tornadoes

Greg Needel Personal February 6, 2008

So I guess there are tornadoes in Jackson, TN. I have never really experienced a tornado and the way it can affect a town until now. Ultimately I am very lucky that i didn’t get any damage from it and nobody I know was hurt. But it was my stupidity that kept me calm, as
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About

Greg is the CEO of REV Robotics, an educational robotics company. which focuses on providing affordable solutions for both co-curricular and extra curricular education.

He was previously the Director of the Innovation Gymnasium at the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Greg is a mechanical engineer who earned his degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has built a career in that field, but his enthusiasm for building and tinkering can hardly be captured by that discipline alone. Professionally, Greg has focused on product development and has designed products for globally recognized brands such as DeWALT, Delta Machinery, HEXBUG, and REV Robotics. He has been issued over 60 global patents for his designs and has numerous patents pending.

Outside of work, he spends much of his free time building and creating, and is an active member of the Dallas Maker Space. Designing and building robots are of particular interest and he has built personal projects and machines for competitions such as Battlebots, the DARPA Grand Challenge and Redbull Creation. Greg dedicates much of his time to working on promoting STEM education to high school students through participation FIRST robotics competition.