Dear STEM enthusiasts, it's been a while!
How are you all?
I haven't been posting for many weeks, if not months, since our previous update in early January. Since then, we have started preparing for the engaging and inspiring FRC competition of 2024.
This year's topic is called "Crescendo", and you can learn more about it here. Fascinating enough, our FRC team is called "Rhapsodia Mechanicus" (Team # 9411) before this year's theme is presented to us, so there's this coincidental connection, and we also got unreasonably lucky in this season.
This post hopes to give you a brief recap of what we did from the start of January to the end of March.
Below are our competition videos from 3.15 - 3.17:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilZlNhM0okc
2024FRC@SYD Day1 - Mar 11 – 15, 2024.mov
2024 FRC@SYD Day2 - Mar 16 – 21, 2024.mov
2024FRC@SYD Day3 - Mar 17 – 21, 2024.mov
The result of the competition is that we achieved 26 out of 47 teams across the world (mainly Asian and Oceanian), which is impressive for an absolute rookie team. What's more important and impressive is that we had the chance to communicate with some of the best teams of Australia, such as 4163 Barker Redbacks who generously provided us a training venue, and 3132 Thunder Down Under who graciously supported us with constructing our defense bot.
Currently we are re-assembling the robot (it's been taken apart for shipping), and look forward to our spirit and performance in the next season!
Special thanks to the "lucky 13" teammates and 3 mentors who helped along the way!
G7: Liu Che
G8: Sophia Shen, William Hu
G9: Alice Zhao, Chloe Zhang, Derek Han, Henry Ma, Isabella Wang, Mingfei Zhou, Sam Wang, Ted Zhang, William Dai (that's me lol)
G10: Clem Long
Mentors: Mr. Allen Wang, Mrs. Jessica Yang, Ms. Jenny Zhang