Greg Fitch, Kevin Gutierrez, Joel Walta, and Chasen Wendt. And, of course, the California Scooter Company. Yep, the motorcycle style and design staff at your favorite motorcycle company selected the winning designs from the many submittals we received during our Cal Poly Pomona College of Engineering design competition, and the guys mentioned above (and shown below) went home with the gold.
Steve Seidner, Greg Fitch, Chasen Wendt, and Joel Walta...these guys have good reason for those smiles!
We’ve written about the design competition in this blog before…basically, Steve’s idea was to hear directly from the folks we want to buy our motorcycles what they want to see in a bike, and what better way to do that than to let them design it! The entries we received were marvelous, and the folks who reviewed them told me that it was tough deciding the winners. They all did a good job!
Yep, it was as good as it looked!
After meeting at the California Scooter Company facility with our winning engineering students and their families, we all rode over to a great pizza spot in La Verne for an awesome dinner. Wow, it was good. And watching the guys receive their awards….that was just great. Steve told the guys how impressed we were with their work, and that they are already great engineers. It wasn’t just talk, either…these guys went home with significant cash awards. Who else does this kind of thing?
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