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Being the captain of a robotics team helped me grow a lot as a person as well as an engineer. I grew into the role of leader by pushing the team forward to explore new ideas and organizing how to work most effectively. I delegated tasks between my partners and I, but ultimately, I believe it was my unwavering enthusiasm that brought our team to new heights. At the end of the season, after overcoming many challenges, we ended up winning the US Open National Competition.
(i designed the team shirts myself!)
So what was it?
THE MISSION
[explain:
what the mission was
what the constraints were
challenge mission - the robot has to be capable enough to complete an extra mission that only gets released on competition day]
THE ENGINEERING
engineering challenges:
accurate motion:
line following
gyro drive
gear ratios and torque (image)
sorting algorithms:
tried an over-head sorter - very interesting, ended up being too unreliable because it was too bulky
came up with a novel approach of a fork-sorter.
Ultimately, this experience helped me grow a lot as a leader and as an engineer. I remember on competition day, while most teams were eating lunch, I told my friends that we're gonna stay at the board to plan out and write pseudocode in a notebook for how our robot will complete the challenge mission. Taking this initiative is what led us to score very well in that challenge mission and propelled us to win the competition overall. Nonetheless, it's not the result that sticks with me, but rather the skills I learned and the experience I had that made the entire experience memorable for me.
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