FIRST Robotics Competition, Mechanical Lead
I led manufacturing for our two robots that season, each with swerve drive, a telescoping arm, and a cube-and-cone intake. I turned the design subteams' CAD into hardware: I manufactured the aluminum, polycarbonate, and printed parts using manual mills, lathes, CNC routers, and 3D printers. Both robots held up through high-contact matches and took us to the world championship, where we placed in the top 40 of roughly 3,000 teams and won engineering awards. I drove one of them, too.
