FIRST robotics team mentor
I was the main mechanical engineering mentor for an inner-city Boston high school robotics team. Students have ten weeks to design and construct a robot for the competition. Every adult member of the team is a volunteer. Due to limited resources, Brighton High had to construct the robot with just a drill press and a few basic power tools. The team lacked access to sophisticated instruments like CNC machines and 3D printers.
I instructed team members on design, mechanical and electrical implementation, and safe tool usage.
The team competed in several competitions a year, one year making it to the championship. The team also won several judges awards for their team dynamic. I guided the team members through the stressful competition environment, where they had to quickly fix any damage to the robot as well as think about the game strategy.
Engineering class assistant
I helped design a brand-new robotics and engineering program at Brighton High School, where students studied physics and received an introduction to SolidWorks and LabVIEW. Every year, the class consisted of more than sixty students. Using Lego Mindstorms kits, I created the mechanical and programming challenges that the students had to complete.
Students had a robotics challenge every month where they had to build and program a robot to complete a task. In the example bellow, the robots had to climb a pole.
Students learned SolidWorks to be able to model their robots and had a final SolidWorks project where they picked an object from the classroom to recreated on SolidWorks.
