Jaybots FTC Robotics Team @ John Jay High School

Jaybots (FTC #16700) is John Jay High School's competitive robotics team. I joined as a freshman with no engineering experience, spent my first year on the junior team, moved up to varsity as CAD Lead by my second year, and was elected Vice President for my senior year — while also hosting annual CAD and 3D printing workshops to train the next generation of team members.

One of my mechanisms was a hopper that intook game pieces and normalized their orientation for easy stacking — a part that went through tens of design iterations and hours of testing to get right. I also designed a dropdown intake driven by a linkage mechanism off a single servo: it let the robot stay within the 16"×16"×16" sizing limit at match start, then extend out past the chassis once the match began to reach difficult game pieces.

I leaned heavily on modular design throughout — my linear extension mechanism, for example, could be pulled off without disturbing any other part of the robot, which made repairs during competition days dramatically faster. As CAD Lead I owned the mechanical design in OnShape end to end each season; as VP I ran team meetings, competition-season deadlines, and the CAD workshops that kept the team's technical knowledge alive after I graduated.