My journey from CAD member to FRC Team Co-Captain shows a combination of my personal growth in CAD and the growth of the general CAD team through my own mentorship. Over the years a lot of designs have been made by my FRC team, 4817, either for competition use or for off-season projects we came up with.
In the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams of 20-100 members compete worldwide to build a large human-sized robot to play on a field the size of a basketball court. Teams have a lot of flexibility in the hardware they can use, but the electronics are standardized across teams.
My FRC team, 4817 is divided into 3 technical sub-teams. CAD does most of the design thinking and creates 3D models of the robot on computers. Mechanical then fabricates and assembles this robot in real life. Electronics and Programming (E&P) then wires up and programs the robot.
Given that the FRC competition season only occurs during the second semester of my school year, we will run some kind of off-season training program during the first semester.