Season Review
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2012-2013
FIRST Team 246 Overclocked
Boston University Robotics
About Us
The Boston University Robotics team is more than just about building robots. We are building a team of students from BU Academy who collaborate with each other and their mentors from Boston University. This team
works together to develop students’ skills in entrepreneurship, engineering, software development, and manufacturing. We don’t stop at mentoring BUA students—our students are youth mentors themselves, passing along
skills to younger students and peers in local schools. Season Review
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Dear Sponsors…
We have finished another great season for Team 246, Overclocked, the Boston
University Robotics Team. I would personally like to thank you for sponsoring us
and making our dreams possible. Building on our success as the Chairman’s Award
Winner and the Tournament Champions in the FIRST Robotics Competition
(FRC) in 2012, we went on to be 2013 Tournament Champions at the Boston
VEX Qualifier. The FIRST LEGO League team that we mentor went on to win
the Best Design Award at the Boston FLL Qualifying Tournament.
Congrats,
Seniors!
Team 246 Overclocked wishes its seniors the best of luck
in college and their future
endeavors. Thank you for
your dedication!
Harrison Krowas (Cap.)
Andrew Connors (Cap.)
Leah Magid (Cap.)
This was a great year for outreach for the
team. Each member of the team contributed
at least 12 hours of robotics related community service; we totaled over 1,300 hours! We
hosted three tournaments this year, one each
in the VEX Robotics Competition (FRC),
FIRST Teach Challenge (FTC), and FIRST
Lego League (FLL) platforms. We hosted a
social event at the FRC Boston Regional
competition attended by over 300 students. We continued to volunteer in the BU
College of Engineering U-Design summer camp, which teaches engineering to
middle school students. Over the year, we demonstrated our award winning robot
at several events including the Educational Forum at BU Academy for elementary
school students, the BU Engineering Fair, “Set in the City” at BU, and more!
Victor Orlov (Cap.)
Nathan Hyde (VC)
Caroline O’Leary
Mckenzie Raycroft
T e a m
Mentors
Gary Garber
Kanav Dhir
Emily Stern
Thomas Lozanoski
Quentin Li
Thomas Halstead
Armaan Vachani
Daniele Ramella
Gloria Garcia
Angelica Ochoa
2014
Abraham M
Alex H
Audrey W
Cathryn H
Daniel G
Dennis C
Gadiel S
Jacob F
Joey M
Johan T
Kevin R
Zach B
M e m b e r s
2015
Aaron H
Colin H
Danny M
Joe W
Nell W
Rachel A
Remy K
Sean B
Weston H
Olivia M
2016
Betty E
Jordan F
Evelyn H
Oliver J
Tom P
Sophia S
Owen G
Helena P
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Dear Sponsors…continued
Over 15 years ago, the team’s original sponsor was the Mass Pre-Engineering program. This past season they
asked us to run a LEGO NXT robotics workshop at Roxbury Community College for middle school students.
These students then came and cheered us on as we were competing at the FRC Boston Regional competition.
Over the summer, through a MassPep camp, we taught a robotics class using Arduinos and robots from Machine Science.
Working with National Instruments, the LEGO Company and the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), we released a book (available on Amazon) on how to make robots using the
new LEGO EV3 Mindstorm kit. Also, in collaboration with the CEEO we successfully integrated LEGO NXT
Mindstorms and LabVIEW programming into our 9th grade curriculum.
As opposed to only using the VEX robotics platform to train our younger students, this past year we established a VEX travel squad. We had two working teams each build a robot and traveled around New England
participating in five events over the season. We also recruited a record number of mentors from the BU College
of Engineering to work the BU Academy students. We have placed a renewed emphasis on the teaching of entrepreneurship, business, and public relations skills into our program: we were again successfully chosen to participate in the FRC regional tournament quarter-final rounds, we have over 20 sponsors this year (our highest
yet) and began to form a relationship with students from the BU School of Management. Thank YOU for your
support this past season!
Daniel Gorelik ‘14
Captain, BU FIRST Robotics
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Looking forward
Thank you,
Sponsors:
Here are some of our plans for the upcoming season:
Develop a relationship with the Boston University School of
Management to develop a mentoring program in
entrepreneurship and business skills
Platinum
Develop our mentoring program with the Mass PreEngineering Program
Boston University Academy
Expand our VEX robotics program from 2 to 3 active
participating teams and expand the number of events which
we compete in
Gold
Develop our mentoring and tournament program with the
VEX IQ platform for elementary school students
Silver
Develop a relationship with PTC to integrate Computer
Aided Design into our program
RTN Credit Union
Adapt our FRC program for participating in a district model
Bronze
Reestablish participation in NASA program such as Zero
Robotics
BUA Parent’s Association
Boston University College of Engineering
Textron
Blockbuster Strategy Group
CleanItSupply.com
BodyLogicMD
Expenses 2013
Registration fees … $6,500
Promotional Merchandise (T-shirt, publications, swag, LED
Light Bulbs and HexBugs to sell) … $5,000
Brad’s Deals
Senior Helpers New England Care LLC
Contributors
Drexel University Online
Materials (VEX robot parts, aluminum, electronics, wheels,
hardware, tools) … $4,500
Transit Systems, Inc.
Undergraduate stipends for mentors … $4,200
Costume SuperCenter
Electronics and computers … $1,100
SPAMCO
FLL Tournament expenses (table rentals, food, trophies,
field parts) … $1,200
Misikko
FTC Tournament expenses … $1,500
ClickInks.com
VEX Tournament expenses … $500
99 Perfume.com
Hajoca Plumbing
YouTubeDownLoader
T. Anthony’s Pizza
TOTAL … $24,500
Also, thank you to all family and friends who purchased
FIRST Green E-Watt Saver LED light bulbs from our
team. All profits directly benefit Team 246! Moreover,
these light bulbs are a great investment in innovative and
eco-friendly lighting technology!