This year, you score points by shooting foam donut-shaped pieces called “notes” into a variety of targets.

You can check out the details in this video.

Our team went over the rules and started brainstorming ideas on how to build the best robot possible for the game.

In design, I started digitally prototyping an intake to pick up the “notes.”

Prototypes were made using a laser cutter to speed up prototyping.

Our team needed to figure out how all of the components fit together and how to keep all of the subsystems in sync mechanically.

We started with a drive base and slowly started configuring the rest of the robot on top of that.

We competed at 3 competitions in California and made the playoffs in all 3.

Our robot won the best design award at our third competition.