Pandamonium

HOMETOWN: Carlsbad, CA, USA

DISTANCE: 2,133 miles (3,432.72 km)

YEAR FOUNDED: 2022

QUALIFICATIONS -Awards San Diego Descartes League Tournament: Connect Award California- San Diego Championship: Think Award Advanced to Michiana Premier Event -Hardware Custom chassis and drivetrain Durability: We went from a fully 3d printed drivetrain to aluminum strengthening the rigidity of the robot Added underplate and 2 cross beams that run across our robot to ensure stability Modular: We decided to have interchangeable mounting plates, resulting in being able to iterate on subsystems more efficiently Made all parts accessible Unique linkage: 4 double helical gears that drive our intake slides Gear reduction: A 1:1.33 gear ratio on our horizontal slides makes it faster and has more torque Custom claws: designed in mind to make intaking and depositing as efficient as possible Funnel: Designed for our outtake claw to be able to grab the failed sample transfer -Software Auto alignment to game objects Utilizes the Limelight 3A camera and a custom computer vision algorithm Detects the relative position and angle of the closest game object Rotates the intake claw to match the angle of the game object Adjusts the robot’s position via PID to center the intake system above the game object 92% success rate Increased reliability for transferring Combines sensor data from distance sensor and quadrature motor encoder to know if a game object is close enough to be grabbed from the intake claw to the outtake claw 95% success rate Automated Driver Controls Four buttons to operate robot subsystem actions Able to swap between sample and specimen scoring modes Two joysticks to move robot 1+2 Sample and Specimen Autonomous Command queue to plan autonomous actions in order -Outreach FIRST Ambassadors: Casa de Amistad FLL Team: Started team of 8 students for tutoring nonprofit for the underserved and helped the students advance to Regionals as a rookie team. DC STEM Advocacy Conference: Attended a STEM advocacy conference with 100+ teams and met with congress members to champion for increased STEM funding. Oceanside Robotics Expansion: Reached out to Oceanside School District, which originally only had 1 FRC team, helping them gain funding and training coaches for the establishment of 2 more FLL teams. Carlsbad Street Fair: Demoed robot and promoted FLL to families at the Carlsbad Street Fair, which has over 100,000 attendees. Gigi’s Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Center: Organized robot demos and created an interactive course for teens at Gigi’s Playhouse. India Mentorship: Conducted a call with team BGIS #21101 from India to answer questions regarding signal sleeves, CAD, OpenCV, and more. FLL Summer Camps: Have taught beginner and advanced FLL summer camps to 400+ coaches, mentors, and students for the past four summers. FLL Mentors: As a whole, mentor 15+ FLL teams for multiple hours per week to prepare them for competition and grow their skills as a whole. FLL Judges: Volunteered as FLL judges for the Carlsbad Educational Foundation to assess project, core values, and serve as head refs for robot game. Mock Comp Judges: Assisted the Carlsbad Educational Foundation with hosting mock competitions for FLL participants so they can practice judging and competing. Scrimmage Collaboration: Hosted several local robotics teams from Carlsbad for mock competitions to get practice for tournaments. Youtube Videos: Developed series of CAD/coding tutorials via YouTube for beginner and rookie teams to learn from and use as examples. Code Ninjas: Demoed our robot at local Code Ninja location to get more students interested in FIRST & discussed possibility for starting an FLL team. STEM Workshops: Coding/CAD Lessons in Afghanistan: Developed coding and CAD curriculum and instructed it to IT Trainers over Zoom, who then taught it to over 4 schools. Girls in STEM Workshops and 5k Fundraiser: Raised over $600 and inspired over 80 girls from low income regions into the STEM field. Robotics Classes at Jewish Temple: Taught hands-on robotics workshops to youth at Temple Solel. STEM Labs at Operation Hope Shelter: Designed an engaging curriculum of STEM lessons and taught them at Operation Hope Homeless Shelter. Summer STEAM Engineering Workshop: Received invitation from Oceanside Public Library and taught an engineering workshop at their Summer STEAM Camp. Yaashi Foundation Collaboration for Students in India: Joined the US Chapter of the Yaashi Foundation to introduce STEM to underprivileged students in India. Community Partnerships: Hygiene Kits with Interfaith Community Services: Created over 40 hygiene kits for those in need, partnering with Interfaith Community Services. Meals with Interfaith Community Services: Packaged and supplied over 50 meals for unsheltered individuals via Interfaith Community Services. Meal Distribution in Downtown San Diego: Worked together to compile and directly distribute snacks and hygiene kits for the homeless populations in San Diego. Essentials Drive Collaboration for Operation Hope Shelter: Worked with two robotics teams to host toy and essentials drives during the holidays. Dog Toy Donation for Rancho Coastal Humane Society: Created dog toys using old shirts and donated them to Rancho Coastal Humane Society. University/College Partnerships: Harvey Mudd We toured their extensive underground laboratories with current mechanical and electrical engineering students who gave us first-hand insight into their educational journeys. We also connected with their makerspace to learn more about manufacturing with advanced tools. University of San Diego We toured their engineering facilities with a current electrical engineering student and met an engineering professor who shared the typical day in her class. We also saw a unique lab that researched the design of coffee and learned more about the field of electrical engineering and their tools for research. UCSC We worked with a computer engineering student who shared his knowledge and expertise with our software team as well as his experience at the university. We engaged in peer review sessions where we learned more about the possibilities of software. UCSD We reached out to a group of student engineers from a variety of disciplines who brought us behind the scenes at the university. We learned more about opportunities such as engineering entrepreneurship b FUN FACTS:

• 6 seniors
• 2 freshman
• 1 sophomore
• Most of started on an FLL team together and then rejoined as FTC team
• Traveled to Washington D.C. together
• We all like pandas + Hello Panda
• Like playing Mafia and taking Buzzfeed quizzes together