About the Team
What is FIRST?
The tournament consists of local and regional qualifiers, world championships and FIRST championships, with kick-offs each season introducing the theme and games of the season. After kick-off, the team will design, build, and program the robot, and the team will be encouraged to contact the community through outreach programs and industry connections. A local qualifier will be held to allow the team to participate in the regional qualifier, and from that point on, a regional qualifier will be held to allow the team to participate in the World Championship.
Team Structure
Team 13190 is divided into three divisions: hardware, software and business. These are all managed by the Captain and Co-Captain, who ensure the team is on schedule and delegate tasks to team members.
Hardware:
Hardware members work on prototyping the robot and engineering the physical design, making blueprints in Fusion 360 and conveying ideas in Blender. This team also assembles the robot and tests it for potential physical issues.
Software:
Software members are able to write programs for the robot in Java. These engineers design and encode what we see in the Autonomous and TeleOP phases of the competition. They work closely with hardware to ensure that the code is accurate, precise, and relevant to the bot being built.
Business:
Business members get to plan outreach events, work on budgeting, fundraising, and attracting sponsors for the team. They also work on documentation by writing and formatting the website, engineering portfolio and notebook.
Team Member Biographies
Ayan - Team Captain
Year in school: Sophomore
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: FTC has allowed me to channel my creative mind into something tangible and beneficial. I have learned a lot from engineering this robot and plan to continue FIRST throughout high school and contribute as a FIRST Alumni afterwards.
Vincent - Team Co-Captain
Year in school: Freshman
Year on the team: 1st
Personal statement: When doing something, always plan it out and take your time when executing it. The end result will be worth it all.
Max - Hardware Lead
Year in school: Freshman
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: Even with unprecedented difficulty, we can be a phoenix in the face of adversity.
Minseong - Software Lead
Year in school: Junior
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: Software coding is full of adventures and hardships, but I love overcoming them with my teammates!
Andrew - Business Lead Documentation & Outreach
Year in school: Sophomore
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: Hopefully, the team goes to the highest matches, but what is more important are making friends, learning new skills, and refining our existing skills.
Shivank - Business
Budgeting & Fundraising
Year in school: Sophomore
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: I am looking forward to competing with other teams and seeing how their designs differ from ours.
Joseph - Hardware and Business
Year in school: Junior
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: Robotics taught me to make a good effort, and get great results from that work. I hope the team will win the challenges and tournaments.
Aubri - Software and Business
Year in school: Junior
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: As someone learning software, robotics has provided me with many opportunities to learn and explore different ways to code in Java.
Prateek - Hardware and Software
Year in school: Freshman
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: I hope our team gets the payoff for how much work we’ve put in.
Amogh - Hardware
Year in school: Freshman
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: I hope that everything goes to plan, and we win. Our team put a lot of work into building this robot and are determined for victory.
Jon - Hardware
Year in school: Freshman
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: Robotics is an amazing place. After a while, you get to learn that it is more of an activity for fun. Sometimes it can be hard and sometimes it can be easy. We all have a great time in robotics.
Elijah - Hardware
Year in school: Freshman
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: It is not easy to pick a single design when there are so many great designs to choose from.
Michael - Hardware
Year in school: Freshman
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: As someone who wants to be an engineer, robotics has significantly helped me in that journey.
Brian - Software
Year in school: Sophomore
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: Robotics has shown me the connection between software and a physical robot and taught me many new things.
Sumant - Software
Year in school: Sophomore
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: In life, you face many challenges. However, robotics has taught me to not give up in the face of them.
Navneeth - Software
Year in school: Sophomore
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: Robotics has taught me to have a better work ethic.
Melvin - Software
Year in school: Sophomore
Year in the team: 1st
Personal statement: I did not really know much when I first came to robotics. However, the team is very welcoming and fun and I have learned a lot about software and teamwork because of it.
Mentor and Coach Biographies
Karen Hardy
Local Politician (Santa Clara City Councilmember), AP CSP teacher at Wilcox High School, Programming Club and Service Club advisor at Wilcox High School
Sudhanshu “Suds” Jain
Qualifications: Local Politician (Santa Clara City Vice Mayor), Retired Electrical Engineer