We are team 11212, The Clueless! 

Role: Team Captain, Mechanical Lead, CAD, Driver A

Most Proud of this year: Over the summer, I designed and built a differential swerve drivetrain. It is able to achieve omnidirectional movement by rotating the two drive wheels with differential gearsets powered by four motors. It was one of the most challenging projects I've done and I'm really proud of it.

Hobbies: In my free time I enjoy designing, building, and flying my own RC airplanes. I have been an active member of Silent Electric Fliers of San Diego and Torrey Pine Gulls for 6 years. I regularly compete in monthly club competitions such as the Electricglide which I won overall first place last year. I also like to build machines in my free time, last summer I built a high-speed 3D printer with 3D printed components. I Also designed and built my own desktop CNC router capable of milling aluminum alloy.

Favorite Food: Vegan

Role: Software Team Captain

Most Proud of this year: I am most proud of achieving the world record and qualifying for Worlds

Hobbies: Violin (SDYS ovation), Badminton (Westview varsity)

Favorite Food: Noodles

Role: Outreach Captain; Human Player

Most Proud of this year: I am most proud of the 416 world record because it reflects the hard work, drive, and collaboration of everyone on the team. Software pulled off an amazing auto, the thousands of hours spent on driver practice led to near flawless driving, and mechanical's systems worked exactly as intended. 

Hobbies: Speech and debate, origami, yelling at Neil + David + Alex, baking

Favorite Food: Jasmine milk tea w/ boba from happy lemon

Role: CAD Lead, Mechanical, Graphic Design, Video Editing, Web Design, Renders, Outreach

Most Proud of this year: Winning worlds and growing as a team

Hobbies: Debate, graphic design, video editing, geopolitics, video games

Favorite Food: Japanese, Chinese, Italian

Role: Mechanical 

Most Proud of this year: I am very proud of how much each team member and the team as a whole has grown in the past several years. After our team's successful Freight Frenzy season, we went from a team of 15 to 4 members due to graduation. Despite this, we persevered through financial challenges, recruited and trained new members, and continued our quality outreach initiatives. Despite all of the challenges, we were back on the grand finals stage 2 years later as the Winning Alliance team.

Hobbies: Building and flying drones in my free time

Favorite Food: Steak

Role: I am part of the mechanical build team and also help with fabrication and driver b on the drive team. 

Most Proud of this year: Being a driver at Worlds my first year at FTC

Hobbies: I like to create art, make origami, and play badminton! 

Role: I CAD, fabricate, and assemble the robot. I also enjoy organizing outreach 

Most Proud of this year: I am very proud of all the outreach we do, and how much effort we put in it.

Hobbies: I love parkour and free running, along with aerial and video games.

Favorite Food: My favorite food is mint chocolate chip ice cream.

Role: Mechanical and Outreach 

Most Proud of this year: Winning worlds !

Hobbies: Competitive and casual art, video games

Favorite Food: Duck Noodle Soup

role: mechanical

food: burger

most proud: winning

hobbies: video games, cubing, piano

Role: Mechanical 

Most Proud of this year: I'm most proud of the dedication that everyone on the team has to the team, as well as winning Inspire for the Franklin Division! 

Hobbies: Soccer

Favorite Food: Chicken Alfredo Pasta

Hello I am a member of the software team and I'm most proud of our performance during the world championship this year. I like to program and create stuff through wood and other materials in my free time and I dont have a favorite food.

Role: Software Team Captain (2022-24)

Most Proud of this year: I'm most proud of seeing the team grow and eventually surpass our 2022 season where the majority of our original founding team graduated.

Hobbies: Playing badminton and watching Formula 1 Racing (McLaren / Oscar Piastri is my favorite)

Favorite Food: Sushi

Role: Software and outreach

Most Proud of this year: I'm most proud of the dedication that everyone on the team has to the team, as well as winning Inspire for the Franklin Division! 

Hobbies: I play violin with San Diego Youth Symphony and play beach volleyball. I also like to draw and read in my free time! 

Favorite Food: spring rolls 

Role: Mechanical, CAD, Assembly

Most proud of this year: Designing key mechanisms on the robot and 3D printing necessary parts. Winning alliance at regionals as a rookie team.

Hobbies: Basketball, Piano, Drums

Favorite Food: In-n-out Burgers

Role: RoBusted member 

Most proud of this year: The consistency our robot achieved!

Hobbies: Playing violin, running, baking

Favorite Food: Pasta

Role: Software and Mechanical, RoBusted alumni

Most Proud: Achieving WA1 at interleague, WA2 at regionals, Control Award 1st, and 125 OPR in our rookie year. We were able to remain competitive with insanely good teams by having an incredibly reliable autonomous and endgame.

Hobbies: Playing tennis

Favorite Food: Fried Rice with Laoganma

Cloud Architect at Qualcomm

Role: Coach and Fabrication supervisor

Most Proud of this year: I am so proud of the team getting Inspire award in the Tao League and Franklin Division

Hobbies: Video games, videography, drawing, building legos with my youngest son and being a dad to all my kids.

Favorite Food: Korean Bibimbap

Work PhD Researcher, Center for Communications Research

Role: Coach

Most Proud of this year: So many things. I mostly worked with the Robusted kids and they really put in a lot of effort. They listened and learned, but they also showed good judgement when it was time to make decisions about what changes were worth pursuing.

Hobbies: Coach Westview Science Olympiad students in the Codebusters event.

Favorite Food: Grilled chicken sandwich

Senior Computer Science w/ Computer Engineering at Colorado School of Mines

Role: Software Mentor

Most Proud of this year: I am proud of the teams commitment to sustainability. Specifically, in supporting efforts to ensure The Clueless and FTC will continue grow in the San Diego Region and beyond.

Hobbies: Rocket league, reading, video making.

Favorite Food: Arroz con Frijoles Pinto al Estilo Cubano