
Fred the Cello was born in 1999 to a German violin maker in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The violin maker quickly put him up for adoption, and later that year he was adopted by a loving family from Boca Raton. He went to live with them and quickly became best friends with their daughter, Elyse.

What is Kellye AKA “Mohawk” passionate about? It’s already pretty clear, that I’ve got an alternative style, but there are many things about me that one typically would not be able to gather just from my appearance, so I’ve decided to share with you a top 5 list of my favorite things:
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In my freshman year of college, I, like many unwilling students, was forced to take a philosophy class, forced to learn something that was both uninteresting and useless to my future as a mathematician –what an ignorant teenager! Not only was my professor insanely good-looking (and awkward at the same time), but I earned an A+ in the class and was exempt from the final exam (not to mention, my 4.1 GPA for the Fall Semester and acceptance into both Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Lambda Sigma Honor Societies!). I soaked up quite a bit of nonsense, but one lecture that remains with me was that regarding Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” in which prisoners are trapped in an immobile position facing a wall in a cave with a fire behind them. Between the prisoners and the fire, there is a ramp with people walking by, holding random figures on their heads and making noises as they pass; the prisoners can see only shadows and hear only echoes-they are capturing a duplicate from the original so-to-speak. Such a story struck me deeply-I will never be able to truly see my face outside of what I gather from a mirror. Each mirror casts a slightly different reflection than the previous and so-on, and people can say you’re either pretty or ugly, based on a matter of taste and presentation; a mere opinion!

Last week, Founder Frank O’Brien took home the award. Frank’s leadership and guidance was hugely important in the start of 2012 as the team took on a lot of new and exciting projects.
This week, one of our newest team members, Frank Riolo, received the award. Even though Frank has only been a full-time team member for a few weeks, his contributions have been noticed and greatly appreciated.
Congrats, Franks!