I compete in VEX Robotics competitions at an international level with team 4610C. Each year my team designs, builds and programs robots for a new challenge. The competitions have two main components:

• Skills (Solo): Score maximum points from one minute of driving through autonomous programming + maximum points in one minute of remote controlled driving. The highest combined score from each type of run determines the rankings.

• Match Play (2v2): For each match, two alliance teams pair together to compete against two other alliance teams in a two-minute match. Each match begins with 15 seconds of autonomous programming followed by 1 minute 45 seconds of remote control driving. Each tournamnt opens with round-robin style qualifying matches. The top teams then proceed to an elimination bracket to determine the winners.

My Role: I have been our Team Captain throughout high school and serve as Head builder, driver, and coder. I also help brainstorm strategy and form alliances with other teams at competitions.

Team Size: Our Team only has 5 members (most teams have more than 10 people). Thus, we need to be incredibly focused and efficient, designing prototypes with CAD (Computer Aided Design).