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Robotics 2023-2024
My Team
What I have achieved
What I have learned
My Team for the 2023-2024 VEX VRC season included four people. The team was 10102X [Vinci] Girls in Stem. This was my first year participating in competition, and it was a wild journey improving my building and coding skills along the way. Although I often documented our progress on the engineering notebook, my skills that year were not fully developed. I will be seeking to improve.
There were no photos of my team, but there was one of my organization all together.
What I have learned
What I have achieved
What I have learned
At the start I wasn't good at building or coding, but slowly I learned to code with C++. I was able to create my very own drivetrain with controls and test out autonomous. Building wasn't a strong suit for me, but after practicing building and fixing drivetrains, intakes, and catapults I was able to get faster as screwing things in. Finally, this year required match loads, and operating the catapult or just dropping the green tri-balls were a big challenge. However with practice and my teammate got super quick. We also wrote the Engineering Notebook together, documenting our experiences.
What I have achieved
What I have achieved
What I have achieved
As a team we were able to win two finals regionally, and advance to the state championships. Winning that we were able to move onto the worlds tournaments. Additionally we made it to U.S. Open. At both venues I got to meet teams from China, Canada, Europe, and more. I was very happy to learn the basic in-and-outs of vex and watch the thrilling battle to world champion live at the dome.
Here is the team page of our achievements in Over Under.
Robotics 2024-2025
My Team
Teamwork
My Team
This is my team for the 2024-2025 Vex VRC season, High Stakes. Our team name is 10102Y [Vinci] Free Wifi. We have four people in our team, and I was the team leader. It was amazing to be in a team with these people (and they are my long term friends). Our organization was Vinci Steam Educations
I censored every face in these pictures, other than mines, for privacy reasons.
My Role
Teamwork
My Team
What does it mean to be a team leader? My role meant that I was going to be there for my team members, and keep track of the things we should do as a team. I would be in charge of organizing and allotting our time so that we could do what is best in our current scenario. Being a team leader did not mean I was always correct, it was that I was going to help lead my team in the general direction. The rest was up to everyone (including me to work together)
Teamwork
Teamwork
Everyone is needed on a team to be able to take a robot and use it to compete. Along with team leader or driver, team members were split into builders and coders. Builders were mainly focused on creating and designing the robot. Coders were tasked with making a 15 second autonomous for the robot that would be ran every match.
Coding
Along with being a team leader, I was also a coder for my team. Coders worked together to create code out of C++ to make the robot do a set of tasks that could earn points at the start of the game. The video above shows one of the successful runs. The design process in robotics is all about brainstorming, designing, testing, and improving. There were certainly times when testing didn't go as plan and improvement was needed.
What I have learned
What our team has achieved
2024 was my best year yet in robotics. I got to experience being a team leader, being in charge of a team, working with peers to make the best of our abilities. Robotics has taught me communication skills from being under pressure during a match to explaining to judges about how our robot worked. It has also taught me to not give up. So many parts of this journey was hard, like how many times the autonomous failed, but our team still made it far.
What our team has achieved
What our team has achieved
Aside from winning the state championships to be able to advance to Worlds, we challenged ourselves at two Signature events. Additionally, by becoming champions at two different tournaments we were able to go to U.S. Opens for robotics.
Our awards for the High Stakes season can be found here.
The image above shows a photo of us and our alliance at U.S. Open.