Work 001
VEX Robotics.
I learned how to think under pressure by building robots that had to perform in front of judges, teammates, opponents, and a very unforgiving field clock.
I used VEX Robotics as a place to combine strategy, documentation, and code. My notebooking work helped turn messy build decisions into a clear engineering story, while programming taught me how small logic choices can decide an entire autonomous run.
Scouting gave me a different kind of engineering practice: watching patterns in other teams, understanding alliance chemistry, and translating match data into decisions that were actually useful before the next round started.
Helping lead team 2496 to four straight World Championship qualifications made robotics feel bigger than a competition. It became a system of trust, iteration, late-night debugging, and shared belief in a machine we had built ourselves.