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FRC Team 9580

A rookie season with a lot to learn.

  • Intake design
  • Fabrication
  • Student leadership
Team 9580’s 2024 FRC robot, showing the intake and main mechanism.
The rookie-season robot, developed from the KitBot starting platform.

Captaining a rookie FRC team, developing the under-bumper intake, and contributing substantial mechanical fabrication and electrical work.

In Grade 12, I was the student captain for Team 9580’s first FRC season. With limited experience on the team, I worked broadly across mechanical design, fabrication and electrical systems.

My contribution

  • Lead the student team and mechanical work.
  • Develop the under-bumper note intake.
  • Tune intake compression to bring game pieces into the robot.
  • Fabricate much of the indexing/shooting body and support the electrical build.
01 / THE PROCESS

Getting the note into the robot

Our robot used a KitBot basis, with an under-bumper intake, internal indexer, top shooter and endgame climber. The intake is the clearest example of my own technical contribution.

I worked through how much compression the note needed to draw it from the floor into the robot. It was early experience with a mechanism that depends on physical contact, geometry and real game-piece behaviour rather than CAD alone.

02 / THE PROCESS

Learning across the build

As captain of a new team, I also did a great deal of fabrication and helped with electrical work. The broad responsibility meant learning how the mechanisms, wiring and people fit together.

After high school, I carried that experience into mentoring Team 4617 at Western—first as a general mentor, then as lead mentor and WE FIRST president.

WHERE IT LANDED

The start of a longer mentoring story.

The season developed my hands-on design and fabrication experience as well as my leadership. The rookie robot was a team build with an acknowledged KitBot starting point.

A closer look

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The FRC robot on the field at the Newmarket competition.
Competing at Newmarket during the 2024 season.
Team 9580 students and mentors standing with their robot.
The team behind our rookie season.
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