I was the captain of our competitive VEX Robotics team, Freezing Code 9282, for four years. Under my leadership, we were four time New York State Champions, competed in the World Championship division finals each year, and received numerous awards for our robot design and teamwork abilities.
This is a video I made about the robot our team designed for the 2016 game. Our robot featured a unique launching system that was the most accurate and consistent in New York State. Our team also achieved the highest autonomous skills score in New York State, where it had to operate and score points autonomously for 60 seconds.
I first designed the robot in Autodesk Inventor to ensure it met all of the constraints and rules of the game. Our team then assembled, programmed, troubleshooted, and modified the robot to perfect its performance.
Our high scoring autonomous robot skills routine.
The robot our team made for the 2017 game. It had to score points by picking up large stars and cubes and maneuver them over the dividing fence. At the end of the match it could also hold onto a post fixed to the field and lift itself into the air to score extra points (1:50 in the video). The video below is from the world championship and demonstrates what this robot (on the right closest to the camera) was capable of.
The video I made about the robot our team designed for the 2015 game. The robot had to score points by stacking pegs and cubes. This challenge was especially difficult because the robot had to start shorter than 18 inches and then expand to stack cubes on towers up to six feet tall.