Competition Robotics design
Duration: 2016-2020 (Student), 2022-Present (Mentor)
Scope: Student Mentoring, Computer Aided Design, Technical Drafting, Media, and Graphic Design
I am currently working with a local Oakville robotics team, previously as a student, now a mostly remote-based design and media mentor working with fellow mentors of diverse backgrounds and experiences to help guide and foster student knowledge and interest in STEAM by the way of teaching and guiding collaborative and effective competition robotics design practices from ideation and strategy, low to high fidelity prototyping, computer aided design, up to manufacturing and further iterative design before, during and after a competition.
FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is an annual robotics competition for high school student teams, with a unique annual challenge, giving students a 6-10 week period to build an effective 120lb robot and then 7 weeks to compete with it.
This whole experience gives students an active learning environment from design, engineering, business management and even media production, exposing them to experiences, practices and knowledge that would otherwise not be exposed to them until college/university or the workplace
Below are a mix of robots and mechanisms I've done with students, as well as designs that I have done as a student.
Photo Credits: Craig Rahman
Photo Credits: Gabriel Allard
