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Importance to me
Importance to me
Robotics has been an instrumental part of my high school life, with me participating on FRC team 3176 for all 4 years I was in highschool. FRC, or the FIRST Robotics Competition, is a world wide competition put on by the company FIRST, who releases a challenging game at the start of every year. As a team, you have around 6-8 weeks to design and build a robot to fit these challenges, going to competitions with teams from all around the country and world.
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2019-2020
This was my first year on the team, and I joined the design and fabrication team. I learned Autodesk inventor, and became comfortable with CAD modeling, design in assemblies, and got an introduction to the advanced machining process, water jetting.
My assigned subsystem for the team was to design and build the chassis, shown below. This is an 8 wheel tank drive, with the middle 2 wheel s being drop center. While we only got to compete in 1 competition, I was proud of the work that I had done.
2020-2021
While the game was the same as the previous season due to the pandemic, we still had the amazing opportunity to design a completely new robot! I now had the title of design manager, and lead around 10 people in the CAD work for the robot.
2021-2022
Heidi the Hippo!
Heidi the Hippo!
Heidi was the bot for my 3rd year on the team. I was given the role of chief engineer, and was the first junior to hold the position. I was responsible for overview of the entire technical side of the team, and led around 45 people and made critical decisions in order to progress through the season. With our robot, we had an incredibly successful season, getting 2nd at state, and having the best competitive record in the teams history.
We also were able to reach out to the community, getting recognized by the school board, and helping with many local groups, such as the middle schools and the girl scouts.
Swerve!
Swerve!
This was also the first year that we used my swerve design, which can be found up above!
2022-2023
2 Robots?
2 Robots?
For the 2023 season, team 3176 built 2 robots, with me still as the chief engineer. The one we used in competition was George the Giraffe, which was a heavily modified everybot, a design from team 118 in houston. However, we made many technical and software based modifications. But, we also took this season as an opportunity to teach the younger students through the use of a second robot. I lead the team in the creation of 2 robots, while teaching younger students Solidworks and fabrication skills.
We improved upon our record from last year, doing even better this season!
Prototyping
Prototyping
We used many different techniques in order to figure out different types of arms and intakes.
George
George
The everybot was our main robot for the season, and we made many upgrades to the original design, including our custom swerve and weight distribution.
Education bot!
Education bot!
The education bot, or production bot as we called it, was a high level teaching tool that we used in order to teach the large number of freshman. With the majority of the team being younger and less experienced, we thought that this would be a good way to teach robot design!
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