Engineering for Grade 3 to 12
Overview
We have actively participated in the various regional and state tournament since 2005. All participants are our roboclub members. The major annual competitions that we have participated include: Read our QnA Page if you are interested in being part of our teams.Major Goals
- Sustaining motivation and inspiring more inquiries in in-depth knowledge about robotics;
- With the appropriate robotics competition, we encouraging students to delve in learning about full automation, and exploration in the realm of artificial intelligence.
- Strengthen competitiveness in science and technology, with integrity, sportsmanship, and professionalism.
Our motto
"Learning is like breathing! Using others' success as inspiration and motivation. Competing against yourself and using your past achievement as a gauge for improvement, not others' ".
Your advertising sponsorship will:
- develop your brand loyalty among the families who are committed to their children's education in engineering;
- make your brand known among this young demographics;
- help us to build a technology savvy generation
- Your sponsorship not only will assist our participation in competitions, but also assist in exploring advanced learning from various professional experts in science and technology arenas.
Sponsorship Levels:
| Storming Sponsor | $1000 |
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| Platnium Sponsor | $400 |
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| Gold Sponsor | $150 |
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| silver Sponsor | $80 |
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| BAse Sponsor | $50 |
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2010 FLL
the State Tournament ***
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The Event was held on Dec 11th at the Mount Olive High School. RoboBrain (most rookies) won the Third Place in the Project Challenge, and gained high score 315 out of 400, 30 points shy from the First Place won by the Plainsboro Team, ranked the 8th out of 44 participating teams. |
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Mentor: Matthew Goldman/Technical mentor, and Vikas Agarwal as Home Coach.
Matthew Goldman, age 17, has been our roboclub member since 2005.
Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey |
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*** The Best Mentor Award at the Regional ***
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Mentors & Home Coaches: Each Team has it's own parent coach to coodinate external meetings in additional to technical meetings at Storming Robots. The technical mentors are Matthew Goldman (age 17) and Avery Katko (age 17) Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey is the head coach for all teams. We have 5 teams participating this year because of the very interesting science topics in Biomedical Engineering. |
| R2D2 : Kelvin C., Benjamin L., Justin W., Dennis W., Sean T. (visit R2D2 site) |
| RoboBrain: Sunny A., Sahaj G., Akash K., Rohan N. |
| CheezWiz : Derek G., Vadym G., Salil P. ,Matthew S. |
| GhostTeam 10.0 : Andrew A., Aum C., Uday S. |
| Pie3 : Jonathon H., Kushal P., Bhavik S. |
2010 RCJ
Third Place in the Robo-Rescue! ***
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The First Place: Omega Kapa Omega Michael X., Sunny A.and David H. |
| pic not available | The Second Place: The Symmetrical
Turtles Akash K., Dhevin G., and Stephen T. |
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The First Place:To The M.A.K.S.- Michelle L., Ashley Y., and Katherine A. |
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| Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey is the head coach for all teams. Mentors: Matthew Goldman (age 16). | |
| We have 12 teams this year. 10 Rescue teams and 2 Soccer teams.
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| The Flyer Windex -Brian, Brady, Doug | Team Scuba - Aum,Uday,Andrew |
| Apollo - Rachel,Seneca,Eric | ImaginaryNumbers - Nikhil S., Rohan, Andre |
| Omega - Michael X,Sunny, David H. | To The M.A.K.S. - Michelle, Ashley, Casey(Katherine) |
| N.E.R.D.S - Elvin,Tanay | Peanut Butter Jelly Time - Luke, Aaditya |
| The Symmetrical Turtles - Akash, Stephen, Dhevin | Pi^3 - Roshun, Salil, Sam |
| The League of Super Evils - Oliver, Marc, Catherine |
The Greater White Shark - Matthew,Avery,Morgan, Ben |
Special Remarks:
A lot of thanks to Matthew Goldman who taught both the Symmetrical Turtles and the Pi^3, while he himself is also one of the main developer of the awesome (complex) robosoccer game. He is currently attending 10th Grade at the Bernardsville High School.
There are simply too many impressive and inspiring stories to be covered here to tell how much effort and wonderful work these children have contributed and gained from this year experience. Bravo! Everyone!
2009 RCJ
Third Places in the Robo-Rescue! ***
*** 2nd Place in the RoboSoccer Event! ***
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| Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey for all teams. | |||
| Stormbotics | Matthew Goldman, Avery Katko, Marc Bruggemann, Oliver Katz | The League of Super Evil | Oliver Katz, David DeKime, Catherine Dai, |
| JustThisCool | Michael Cannizzaro, Morgan Van Blacrum, Nikhil Shah | RoboDragon | Rachel Goldman, Michael Xie, Sunny Aggarwal |
| Team With No Name | Andre Gou, Ben Brown, Nikhil Kapadia | RoboRevolution | David Hua, Aum Chatterjee, Akash Kumar |
| The Intripeds | Tanay Trivedi, Benjamin Wechter, Luke Dai, | BeatU | Andrew Amerman, Eric Ward, Uday Shankar, Brain Breslow, |
| The PopTarts | Douglas Rynar, Colin Reese, Brady Bean | ||
2009 World RCJ
Representing the United States in the RoboCupJunior division of the competition were Andrew Amerman, Sunny Agarwal, Rachel Goldman, Uday Shankar, Michael Xie, and Eric Ward. They competed against other young students their age from over 30 different countries including China, Japan and Germany. Press Release: Star Ledger article Branchburg's Storming Robots take on the World.2010 World RCJ
Once again, Storming Robots team has won the USA RCJ and is invited to representing the United States at the 2010 World Tournament. Due to the cost and event dates landing during school exam time, parents decide not to attend this World Event at Singapore.ZeroRobotics
This competition is for Grade 9-12 students. This is from the SPHERES-ZERO-Robotics program run by the MIT and NASA. SPHERES stands for the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites. Students write algorithms for the SPHERES satellites to accomplish tasks relevant to future space missions. The algorithms will be tested by the SPHERES teams. The best designs will be selected and the teams will travel to MIT for the final competition to operate the SPHERES satellites on board the ISS.
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Avery Katko |
Catherine Dai |
Matthew Goldman |
Oliver Katz |
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Online news.
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Fact sheet about this ZeroRobotics Project
2009 FLL
*** Ranked the 10th out of approx. 50 teams in the State Tournment Event! ***
*** Won the Project Award at the Regional competition! ***
*** Won the Best Mentor Award at Regional ***
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| Working with the team... | The team with a whole group of supportive MOMS! | The Best Coach/Mentor Award | The R2D2 Team |
Coaches: Elizabeth Mabrey (Technical) and Connie Lam (Project).
Storming Robots coached a six-members rookie team of kids aged 9 years old from Livingston area. Despite of being the first time participants, they scored 290 out of 400. This was an impressive score for first-time participants and for such young age.
Team: Kelvin C., Benjamin L., Justin W., Dennis W., Sean T.
The team worked about 6-8 hours per week from September to early November. In the late November, some put in 10-12 hours a week (in additional to regular school hours, homework and many other activities).
Incredible group of MOMS! This would not have been such a successful experience, if it was not because of the untiring support from all the mothers of these children. These Moms did a wonderful job in time management in coordinating additional meetings, organizing project work,etc.
Click here to view the West Essex News Article about R2D2.
2008 RCJ
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In April 2008, there were 26 teams with 6 from Canada, the
rest from NJ/NY. All students have done a wonderful job. We had three teams attended this event.
Brief Recap of our experience on the Event Day:
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2008 FLL
The Green Hawk! |
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Team Mentors: Gawain Lau(age 17)/Mentor and Matthew
Goldman(age 14)/Assistant Mentor. They both are Storming Robots'
roboclub members since 2004. Team: The Green Hawk (age 8-11): Sunny Aggarwal, Dennis Brookner, Aum Chatterjee, Rachel Goldman, Akash Kumar, Michael Xie, and Ashley Yang. State Event (Dec,08): We have won the First Place in Teamwork Challenge. Congratulation to the team. At this segment, they were given a secret challenge which was not revealed to anyone but just the team members, not even mentors. They exemplified what a teamwork should be. Regional Event (Nov,08): We were advanced to the State Tournament after being awarded the First Place of the Team Award. Although we did not manage to achieve the highest score, we were the only team managed to perform the two of the three most complex missions with a bi-directional claw. |
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2007 FLL
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Teams: Falcons (age 11-13): Anurag Anjaria, Dennis Brookner, Michael Cannizzaro, Tristan Duenas, Matthew Goldman, and Morgan Van Blarcum. Metallic Short Circuit Machine (age 10-11): Julian Frost, Rachel
Goldman, Andre Gou, Harry Keats, Roshun Menon and Theo Rabke. |
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We lost a few weeks of practice due to delivery problems of the fields, and the early time frame for the local event. With the challenge of working with new faces in the teams, and new Mindstorms hardware (NXT instead of RCX), these bright children amazingly managed to get most of the challenges done with only approximately 16-20 hours. 2007 challenge's scoring system is quite complex. We learnt a lot in the process especially in strategic analysis, and teamwork. The MSCM team used RCX. Their bot was equipped with 2 rotation sensors geared up drastically to achieve precision, 1 single rotational degree (from RCX rotation sensor) ~= 1.5mm. Wow! Highlights
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Special appreciation to Tristan's mother, Diane Duena. She has
taken great quality pictures for our teams since 2006.
She also volunteered to burn all the pics onto a CD for each kid in the
Falcons Team (Tristan's team).
Tristan (residence in Princeton area) has been our roboclub member from 2005 to 2008. |
2006 FLL
in the Regional event
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Teams:
Discovery (age 12-14): Mark Bruggemann, Tristan Duenas, Avery Katko, Matthew Goldman, Ryan Sandor, Caleb Shimomura, Phillips Stankus, and James Wittel. Roboteers (age 9): Brady Beans, Dennis Brookner, Harry Keats, Zach Katz, Matthew Schueler BuckyBot (age 9-11): Alexander Ali, Anthony Ali, Rachael Goldman, Andre Gou, Kevin Kober, Jeffrey Kober, Theo Rabke, Alex Sudyn, and Karlin Yeh Highlights The teams consisted of children from diversed areas, from Livingston (50 min. North of the center) to Princeton (50 min. South of the center). Thus, we managed to get together to work on this for less than 30 hours before the event, while minimum 60 hours are recommended. Nevertheless, they all did wonderful job. Roboteers ranked 2nd in the local event. BuckyBot ranked 5th in the local event, and 12th in the state event. Discovery ranked 3rd in the local event, 9th in the state event. There were 50 teams in the state event. |
2005 FLL
50 Registered Teams
View the Teams Pictures...
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FIRST LEGO League
Robotics State Tournament held in the Mt. Olive High School on December 10,
2005. Our team name is “Stormbotics”, and consists of eight children aged from
10 to 14 from different townships and schools including home schools,
private, and public schools. Team - Stormbotics: Eileen Chow, Matthew Goldman, Gawain Lau, Garrick Lau, Andrew Yuen, Johnny Wang, and James Wittel.
Even though this was our first robotics competition, the team ranked the
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| Highlights We all thought one instance happened in the the teamwork presentation session was rather funny: |
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>Judge: "what is your robot's name?".
>Teamsters (looked into each others' eyes and answered with puzzling tone: "... we don't have a name for the robot... it is our robot...". >Judge: "... didn't you kids have fun doing robotics?..." >Teamsters: "uh... we did have a lot of fun building and programming robots....we just did not bother with a name... " |
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