Titanium Robotics’ summer camp finished up its fourth week on Wednesday, June 26 and Thursday, June 27. During these two days, students from several departments began brainstorming and discussing new designs for the mechanism that was reviewed by mentors the week before.
During the competition, teams’ robots must carry out two tasks. The goal for our team is to make a single mechanism that can perform both of these tasks in a simple and easy way. After creating an original design, and that design being diligently picked apart and scrutinized by mentors, it was time for students to make new models. CAD (Computer Aided Design) members began creating the design plans for new ideas each participant came up with. Mechanical engineering trainees collaborated with CAD learners to begin discussing the logistics regarding new prototype plans. Mechanical engineering members built a new prototype working similarly to the original but with some revisions. Programming continued teaching newcomers how to program as electrical engineering started finalizing their projects and testing their work on the robot.
Observing the work taking place throughout the fourth week of summer camp, Yuxiang Zhang commented, “I’m really happy with how well everyone’s doing and I think with summer camp ending soon we’ve made a lot of great progress.” With only two weeks of summer camp to go students are working fervently to complete jobs and designs.
On Thursday, July 11, the last day of summer camp, Titanium Robotics is having an Open House for students to display and showcase to their parents the work they did over the course of the six weeks of summer camp. There will also be a barbecue and admission is free. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. The event begins at 3:00 p.m. at the San Marino High School robotics room, 308. Come check out our hard work!
Titanium Robotics is a team consisting of over 100 students, mainly from San Marino High School, who come together with a common interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students learn from professional engineers and mentors to build and compete in the annual FIRST Robotics Challenge with a robot of their own design. Programming, electrical work, computer-aided design, and business management are all run by student representatives, making the entire organization student-led from start to finish.
