Reflections & Celebration

Personally, I feel accomplished by doing the project, there’s been quite a few people that helped me along the way in my robotics journey in the past 7 years including both FLL and vex, and that's why I feel responsible to give back to the community because without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today. I started to teach basic robotic knowledge and skills to some of the new teams in our community last year in New Zealand as well as in my previous school club.

During the pandemic in 2020-2021, I assisted in teaching this knowledge and coding remotely to my new Taiwanese teammates and other New Zealand teams during the lockdown. Afterwards, I’ve realised that it would be very beneficial if we recorded educational videos so then we can use it for our new members and maybe also contribute to the wider community.

From the project I've learnt that organising people isn’t an easy task, you need to plan out a lot of things beforehand so that you have the time for people to all be on the same page. It is a very important aspect of teamwork since if people aren’t on the same page as each other it would be extremely hard to work together. In the end we can cooperate internationally between my Taiwanese teammates and my New Zealand club members and work together to give back to the wider New Zealand community

I’ve been competing on a team with my brother for 6 years now, and we have had many achievements. I’m glad we finally have a website that can summarize and record our journey and accomplishments. I was really interested in video editing before and now I like 3D modeling as well as graphics design. Therefore, I was responsible for editing some of the videos like the introduction to CADing tutorial and more in the future. I’m happy that I can finally put this skill to good use and help others through making these videos.

I’ve been competing in WRO and Vex for 6 years, and after exchanging knowledge with other teams, I didn't realise that it was challenging for them to design a structurally robust robot. This is my first time sharing my knowledge with a new team and helping out by solving their problems. For example we shared our design process with Chingshin academy and gave them some feedback to their robot as well as some building and designing tips. This was a completely new experience since I’ve never been a “teacher” before and I’m really grateful for this opportunity. From this, I’ve developed my organisational skills while preparing teaching resources. Through this experience, I've learnt a lot and it also allowed me to gain knowledge to improve my teaching in the future.

I have competed in VEX for 2 years. I have noticed that there are many teams that lack knowledge of constructing functional robots. We found out many teams are struggling in the competition because of lacking resources such as materials, place to train, or education about VEX. We contacted Ching Shin academy and exchanged our knowledge with them. We shared how we plan each season, and gave them some tips during the design process. I feel honored to help more people get involved in VEX, and learn more about the robotics field. We made tutorial videos to share our experiences about constructing drivetrains, useful mechanisms, and constructing tips. I feel honored to get new people involved in the VEX community and help them start learning more about the robotics field. From this experience I learned more thoroughly about VEX too, and became more willing to help other people.

I've been learning and working for website building for 2 years, and I think it's a pretty good chance for me to design a platform for who don't understand how to build a robot to learn and sharing our knowledge with everyone. and thanks to everyone in the team helping me about the website so I can built that success. I learned how to work with team from this project.

Lachlan Davidson is a alumni of team 240p. Back in 2019, when I was still in middle school, our team managed to win the Middle School Excellence award in the Turning Point Season. Later on I asked one of the team members of 240p if they had discord or not and they kindly added me on discord because they were one of the best performing teams at nationals. Turning point was also the season when the V5 kits came out, so in order to compete at worlds we needed to switch over to V5 since there is still quite a difference between cortex and v5. He surprisingly invited all of the teams in New Zealand who's qualified to worlds and did a stream on the basics of programming v5 using Pros since you couldn't program the V5 with robotC. The livestream was 5 hours long and it covered a lot of the things and programming concepts that we needed to know. He helped many teams online through discord and taught me a lot of things including strategies, programming and building no matter where I am without the distance barriers throughout the years in 2020 and 2021. Afterwards, I tried sending the replay of the livestream to some of my friends who are switching to V5 too but, not many people can digest a 5 hour long programming videos, so I decided to chip it as a series with a simpler version and a shorter duration.