2020-2021 Season: Ultimate Goal

The game was played on a 12 ft by 12 ft playing field where the main objective was to launch foam rings into the goals. To score additional points, robots could move the wobble goals outside of the field walls, stack rings on the wobble goal, and shoot down the polls between the goals.

Skills Gained

Technical Skills:
- Refined my CAD skills
  - made custom parts to 3D print
  - created assemblies to prototype parts and get them to work together
- Gained lots of experience with technical writing
  - we wrote an engineering notebook, engineering portfolio, and had to prepare a presentation for the judges at the competitions
Collaboration and Teamwork Skills:
- Imroved at delegating tasks to team members based on their strengths and interests
Time Management Skills:
- To manage time effectively to meet the dealines for the competition, I learned to set self-imposed deadlines for individual and sub-team tasks
Problem-solving Skills:
- Learned to reach out to experts when we were stuck
  - That year, we got five new mentors, who became one of our greatest resources for problem-solving
- Learned to incorporated feedback into current design
Leadership Skills:
- Refined leadership skills such as decision-making, adaptability, conflict resolution, and motivating my team members
- I'd been the team captain for the past few years, and this season was my last one, so I had to mentor one of my teammates to take over for me

Game Overview

Wobble Goals

Playing Field

Ring Goals

We designed our robot to:

shoot rings at the high target from the white center line on the field
knock down the polls between the targets by shooting the rings at high speeds
have an arm to grab the wobble goals.

As team captain, I oversaw and participated in all aspects of the team, but I was most involved with the mechanical design of the robot (as detailed below).