FIRST Robotics Competition, Design Mentor
I mentored a high school team through the design of their intake and climb. Most of them were new to CAD, so we started with the fundamentals and worked up to tolerance planning and prototyping. Their robot ran a dual-stage cascading elevator, a multi-object intake, and an endgame climb, and we kept reworking the slap-down intake until it actuated smoothly and handled game pieces reliably. They finished among the top five scorers at the Pacific Northwest regionals.
