Team Members

Emma Meihofer

Role: Team Leader, Engineering Notebook, Scout

Emma is a 17 year old Junior in the STEM program at DFHS. She spends a lot of her free time cooking and gardening. She is in Beta Club and National Honor Society, and she is on the Academic Team and Science Team at DFHS.

Camden Spehl

Role: Lead Programmer, Builder, Driver, Lead Drive Coach, Web Developer

Camden is a 16 year old Junior in the STEM program at DFHS. He spends a lot of his free time programming and running. He can code in Java, C++, Python, HTML, CSS, C# and JavaScript. He is in Beta Club and National Honors Society at DFHS.

Eduardo Cea

Role: Builder, Programmer, Drive Coach, Scout

Eduardo is a 17 year old Junior in the STEM program at DFHS. He spends a lot of his free time playing music or basketball and coding. He can code in Java, Python, HTML, CSS, and C#. He is in National Honors Society at DFHS.

Alex Daichendt

Role: Lead Builder, Main Driver

Alex is a 16 year old Sophomore in the STEM program at DFHS. He spends a lot of his free time learning about cars. He is in Swim Team Varsity and Beta Club at DFHS.

Robot Development

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Team 7432E began designing their robot in June, getting a jump start on the new season. Above are some pictures of the second build of their design. They will be attending one Competition in January and 2 in Feburary.

Engineering Notebook

Above is only the first 30 Pages. Click here to view the entire pdf.

Team Goals

With this competition, our goal is to score as many points as possible.

In order to score points, we will focus on the engineering design process. A large amount of effort will go into coming up with a variety of designs for different parts of the robot. We will consider as many factors as possible before deciding on a certain design.

In order to have the opportunity and time to test, redesign, and rebuild the faulty components of the robot, we have requested to collect the robotics parts on June 12th, 2020. This will provide us with the chance to work on the robot over the summer, instead of starting during the school year. That is an additional 3 months of work time.

In order to score as many points as possible or more points than our opponents, we will focus the robot on picking up and scoring balls. Descoring the balls will be decided at a later time, after we have determined an effective way to score balls.

Not only do we want to win, but another goal we have have in this competition is to improve our skills through completing our tasks. Some students on our team are looking to learn a new programming language and improve their existing programming skills. Other students are looking to improve their building skills by becoming quicker and more efficient with assembling components of the robot. Furthermore, other students are looking to develop improved engineering skills.

We are looking to minimize the cost of our robot by using parts we already have in addition with working efficiently to make the best use of our time.