Industrial Design award at Marmara FRC Regional in Istanbul

I am part of Team 6024 RFactor that won the prestigious “Industrial Design Award By General Motors” at the Marmara FRC Regional in Istanbul. Our robot raised the notes and reached the Crescendo when we achieved that fine balance of form, function and elegance for our machine!!

I was the rookie member for 9th FRC season amongst the team of 24 members that had only 1 veteran member with 3 years experience, 3 members with 1 year of experience and 21 rookie team members!!!

The team over 8 months built robot mechanisms during the pre-season, doing impactful outreach, building the exciting swerve drive, multi-angled shooter, CAD, fabricating parts & anodisation, under the chassis wiring and much more.

I was part of all the sub teams contributing and learning hands on. However the programming the robot and getting the autonomous code to work was the most satisfying part.

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