Team 37348 Charged Up!

2 time FIRST LEGO League State Championship Team

Team 37348 Charged Up has earned a place among the top robotics teams in the world—advancing to the FIRST World Championship twice, including 2023-2024 (Masterpeice) and again in the 2025-2026 (Unearthed) season.

Support Our Journey to Worlds

Out of hundreds of teams, only a select few advance to the FIRST World Championship. After winning at the state level, Charged Up earned the opportunity to compete on the global stage against teams from around the world.

Help Us Get to Worlds

Qualifying for the World Championship is an incredible honor—but it also comes with significant travel, lodging, and competition expenses.

Our team is working hard to raise the funds needed to represent our community on the world stage, and we need your support.

What donations support:

Travel to Houston, Texas
Lodging for the team
Competition registration
Materials and preparation

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Every donation helps bring these students one step closer to competing at the highest level of robotics.

Who We Are:

Charged Up #37348 is a neighborhood FIRST LEGO League Challenge team based in Kent, Ohio. Our team is made up of six students in 6th and 7th grade, and we meet 3–4 times each week at the KSS Robotics makerspace to design, build, program, research, and prepare for competition.

This season, Charged Up earned the opportunity to represent Ohio at the FIRST World Championship in Houston, Texas, April 29–May 2, 2026.

ROBOT DESIGN

for the unearthed season, Charged Up focused on a compact, efficient robot design that maximizes performance through interchangeable attachments and a layered lift system. Their python programming emphasizes precision and consistency, allowing the robot to complete multiple missions reliably in a single run.

INNOVATION

Charged Up developed the “Yeet A-tlatl,” which is a mechanical system designed to replicate and measure atlatl throws with consistency and accuracy. This solution enables more reliable data collection for research while demonstrating how engineering can improve the study of historical tools.

CORE VALUES

Throughout the season, Charged Up demonstrated strong teamwork, perseverance, and Gracious Professionalism, supporting one another while continuously improving their design and performance. The team also shared their passion for STEM through outreach, inspiring others in their community.

Our team members

Logan Crawley

Logan is a 6th grade student at Biomed Science Academy. He has programmed, built, and run robots, but most of all he loves working on the team presentation. Logan started on a FLL Explore team in kindergarten. Outside of FLL, Logan loves to cook and play video games.

Milo Plough

Milo is a 6th grade student at Biomed Science Academy. Milo does most of the robot programming for his team because that is his favorite role to fill, but he also run the robot and help design it and the attachments. This is Milo's 7th year with FIRST. Out of FLL, Milo enjoys baseball, playing video games like lethal company and playing with Legos.

Abhinav Pabbietty

Abhinav is a 6th grade student at Aurora City Schools. For Charged Up, Abhinav mainly works on the scripts and presentation materials. Outside of FLL Abhi has his own youtube channel and he likes to build legos

Aarya Hemachandran

Aarya is a 7th grader at Aurora City Schools. Aarya designed and built the teams innovation project during his first year as a new member of Charged Up, during the Submerged season. Aarya also assists with the robot building and attachment designs. Aarya enjoys basketball, video games, and Lego as his personal hobbies.

Wesley Wiker

Wesley is in 6th grade and attends St. Patrick School. On team Charged Up, Wesley is a robot runner and a programmer. He enjoys the challenge of building attachments and building the mission code. In his free time he enjoys baseball, open-world games, and virtual reality.

Ashvik Papannagari

Ashvik is a 7th grader at Aurora City Schools. For Charged Up, he is a builder, programmer and robot runner, and works on the innovation project. Ashvik started on a FLL Explore team in kindergarten. This is his fifth year in FLL Challenge. Outside of FLL, Ashvik likes to build legos and play basketball.