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About This Episode
Jake and Sabreana chat with Ashton Petersen. The Wisconsin teenager is fascinated by how things work. From watching center pivots circle the fields, Ashton's curiosity has led to some impressive creations. The engineering 15-year-old started years earlier with popsicle sticks and drinking straws, graduating to welding pipes and testing different types of motors to run his own center pivot. What will he build next?
Topics Covered
Innovation, irrigation, self-taught, engineering
Key Takeaways
Through the years, Ashton's curiosity on how things worked kept him designing and constructing items. The 15-year old is a self-taught engineer, knows how to weld, and uses those skills to evolve his projects. Ashton is a problem solver, part inventor, part mechanic, and part artist. He approaches every project with curiosity and persistence, and sees possibilities and opportunities where others see obstacles and scrap.
About the Guest
Since he was a child, Ashton Petersen has been fascinated by the center pivots watering the fields around his Wisconsin home. Over the years, he built different pivot models to irrigate his family's vegetable garden. As a teen, he taught himself to rewire electronics, run water uniformity tests and even took a welding class. Through his innovation and determination, we think his current prototype is only the beginning.
Check out the Press Release: reinke.com/news/wisconsin-boy-shares-his-love-of-pivots-making-things-work
About the Hosts
Agriculture has been part of Jake’s life from the beginning. Growing up on a Midwest farm, he never realized those early experiences were preparing him for a career in the industry. With more than 20 years of experience in irrigation technology, Jake has worked his way from robotic programming to his current role as technical sales manager, helping growers around the world optimize their irrigation systems. A self-described lifelong learner, Jake is always curious about how things work and what’s possible. Away from work, he enjoys hunting, fishing and spending time with his family.
Sabreana didn’t grow up in agriculture, but that’s where she went after earning her manufacturing engineering degree. For the past 26 years, she’s had the opportunity to hold different positions within Reinke, now serving as a sales and marketing support specialist. Having developed a deep respect for the ag industry, Sabreana now has the opportunity to expand on that by tapping into people’s stories and challenges through the podcast.
