John Minks is the son of David and Rebecca Minks. Throughout high school he was involved in Football, Basketball, Robotics, Track. He plans to attend Missouri S&T to get a mechanical engineering degree. What he’s looking forward to the most next year is, “Having more free time.” His biggest achievement in high school was, “Going to worlds in robotics.” If he goes to his ten year reunion he hopes to have accomplished, “Getting a mechanical engineering degree and start to build robots.” What he’ll miss most is, “Playing football with all my buddy’s.” A mentor he’d like to thank would be, “Jim Kjar, he taught me to work thru failure until it works right.” His best memory was, “Messing with the other seniors during football practice.” To celebrate the end of this era in his life he will be traveling some over the summer. His advice to a younger student is, “Stay on top of your work the sooner you get it done the sooner you can just relax.”