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:

• ZeroRobotics by MIT/NASA
• RobocupJunior^(R) by the Robocup^(R)
• First LEGO^(R) League by the FIRST.

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
Signage of your company’s banner at our annual RoboXpo Event.   Include the Platnium Sponsor level.
Platnium Sponsor	$400
Company advertisement with link displayed on our club and team website. Company logo included on the back of teams' tshirts. Include the Gold Sponsor Level.
Gold Sponsor	$150
Company logo image link displayed on our club and team website.  Include the Silver Sponsor Level.
silver Sponsor	$80
Listed with hyperlink to your company.  Include the Base Sponsor Level.
BAse Sponsor	$50
Listed as a sponsor on our club and team website. Acknowledgement at our Annual RoboXpo Event.
Advertising	Specials
Listed here as advertiser.
Other Specifics
Your sponsorship is an advertising and/or promotional expense. Logo image must be within 180x100 pixels image size. At any time and for any reason in its sole discretion, Storming robots reserves the right to refuse any advertising/advertisers. Please contact us if you are interested in sponsoring our competition effort.

RobocupJunior (RCJ)

RCJ sits at the entry-level of the international RoboCup initiative. RoboCup is a world renowned A.I intensive game. It stresses the learning in automation gearing towards artificial intelligence. RCJ delves deeply into computer science and algorithmic programming due to its emphasis on autonomous robotics.

2013 RoboCupJunior

The Eighth US RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Liberty Science Center/NJ on the April 14th of 2013. 

There were a  total of 44 teams with 169 participants from CA, NC, NJ, NY, PA.

Storming Robots teams again filled the leaderboard in most of the Leagues:

• Soccer/Primary:
  Dimensions - the First Place.
• RescueB/Secondary:
  1. SR-chitects - the First Place.
  2. RoboSapiens - the Third Place.
• RescueA/Primary:
  1. Seedz - the First Place.
  2. ShimoZumo and Chitty Chitty BotBot - tied for the Second Place
     
  3. Horatii - the Third Place.
• RoboDance/Primary:
  Team Visionaries - the 2nd Place.

More importantly, "Hats Off" to all our teams who have also demonstrated impressive dedication and perseverance in doing their best in challenging themselves. What set our teams apart from many others: Throughout the course of 6+ hours at the competition, they were completely on their own. They had to make strategic and technical decisions to continuously improve themselves.

Here are the teams:

#YOLO:  Alexander Saff, Steven Chen, Tian Jin

3-Amigos: Alexander Lisenko Aaron Fan Aditya Jain

Chitty Chitty BotBot: Vishnu Pathmanaban and Hugh Zhang

Dimensions: Luke Dai, and Vadym Glushkov

Methodology Madness: Daniel Carroll, Andrew Krapivin, Luke Bernick, Ryan Betz

MooTurtles: Brandon Tang, Jesse Cross, Tanav Suman

RoboSapiens: Siddharth Kurella and Abhishek Kalita

Seedz: Sean Doran, Neelay Trivedi and Yuwen Zhang

ShimoZumo: Joseph Chen and Wilson Liou

SR-chitects: Michael Xie, Andre Gou, Andrew Amerman and Salil Pathare

TechKnowledgers: Prateek Humane, Nikolaj Folmer, Rishab Bhatt

The Baryons Team: Brady Bean, Steven Lee

The Red Steaming Robot Dragons: John Kapustka, Shanmukha Akkapeddi, Vishwa Arasappan

Team Visionaries: Brenna Herrity and Colleen McConnell.

2012 World RCJ

Won World Titles for USA at the World Event!

Super Team World Champion RoboDance / Primary
- by our Team Zulu.

3rd Place World Champion RoboSoccer / Primary
- by our Dimensions team.

Two other Terrific teams made impressive preformance at the World Event.

RoboRescue B /Secondary - 10th from 22 teams by our SR-chitect Team.

RoboRescue A / Primary - 20th from 33 teams by our CheezPuffz team.

Click here to view some pictures.

Date	April 22nd, 2012.
Location:	Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ.
Official Details:	Visit 2012 Event Information & Schedule site  about the schedule, teams list,  and the event details. Visit USA-RCJ website about technical details on leagues, rules, etc.
Checkin-time:	8:00am
Game Starts:	9:00am

2012 RoboCupJunior

Storming Robots teams took First Place in three out of seven Leagues. In the RoboRescueA Primary League.

On April 22nd, 2012, the Seventh US RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Liberty Science Center in NJ. There were competitors from other states such as North Carolina, PA, NY, and NJ. 40+ teams competed in several Leagues at the event.

Winning teams:

The following winning teams are invited to compete at the 2012 RobocupJunior World Event in the Mexico City during the week of June 18th.

 Epic Taco: (read about the team):

Took First Place at Rescue A/Primary League. It consists of two team members, Sean Doran (6th grader from Branchburg) and Vishnu NV Pathmanaban (5th grader from Bridgewater). 

 The Dimensions (read about the team):

Took First Place at RoboSoccer/Primary League. It consists of three team members, Sunny Aggarwal (9th grader from Bridgewater) and Vadym Glushov and Luke Dai (both 8th grader from Belle Mead).

 SR-chitect: (read about the team):

Won the First Place in the RoboRescue B High School League. It consists of three members, Andre Gou (9th grader from Warrensville), Michael Xie (8th grader from Bridgewater) and Eric Ward (8th grader from Flemington).

 CheezPuffz: (read about the team):

Won the Second Place in the RoboRescue A/Primary League. It consists of two members, William Cui (7th grader from Basking Ridge), Zeriozha Zakharkin(8th grader from Basking Ridge). (Ashley Yang, another 7th grader from roboclub, will join them at the World Event.)

Team Zulu: (read about the team):

Received the Best Entertainment Award in the RoboDabce/Primary League. It consists of 3 members, Colleen McConnell (6th grader from Skillman), Brenna Herrity (7th grader Homeschooler from Yardsville), and Sanjana Sastry, (6th grader from Edison).

 

Our 2012 teams List

Head Mentor: Elizabeth Mabrey for all teams. Students Mentors: Morgan Van Blacrum, Avery Katko, and Matthew Goldman
Teams:	Two Primary Soccer. Eight Primary Rescue A. One RoboDance. Two Rescue B. (Secondary level)

Teams (with members and registration cost for each member)
	Registration:  This cost listed below includes registration and the Tshirt.   The registration cost goes to the event host, not Storming Robots.  Storming Robots simply consolidates all individual payments and send RCJ a single check on your behalf.  Therefore, please write the check to "Storming Robots". T-Shirts included:  Shirt cost goes to the shirts printer. SR is simply doing this on your behalf. Making a shirt wtih each individual team name and appealing color will be prized at an exorbitant cost, approx. $35/shirt and parents have to get one as well in order to meet the 6 shirts minimum. SR will try its best to stay maximum of $20 each.  SR will place the order with a design at its own discretion. Therefore, $20 is added into the final fee. If you feel you wish a certain design, color and your team name must show on the shirts, etc., you must contact us no later than March 10th. You will be responsible to design, order the shirts for the team, and collect payments from other team parents. Please submit no later than March 10th. Teams are registered only after registration fee is received. Storming Robots will process the registration for you. There is a deadline for withdrawal by April 1st. This will entitle you $25 refund, not what said below because team registration fee of $70 which is not refundable, and neither is the T-shirt. Cost of each team member listed below.
P=Primary        S=Secondary
	RoboDance/P: Brenna, Colleen, Sanjana	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Hugh, John, Janathon	$68
	RoboDance/S - Matthew (pending)	tbd		RoboRescue A/P - Sean, Vishnu	$80
	RoboSoccer A/P - Ben B. and Nikhil	$80		RoboRescue A/P -  Dhruv, Swathi, Tyler	$68
	RoboSoccer A/P -   Luke, Sunny, Vadym	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Anish, Dhruv	$80
	RoboSoccer A/P - Ben W., Brady, Steven	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Seriozha, William	$80
	RoboRescue B - Andre, Eric, Michael	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Ashley, Bhavik, Justin	$68
	RoboRescue B - Andrew A., Salil, Uday	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Aaron, Hunter, Rishab	$68
	RoboRescue A/P - Ananya, Ashwin,  Rohan	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Joseph, Nikolaj, Prateek	$68
	RoboRescue A/P - Daniel, Lawrence	$80

USA Computing Olympiad

To align with our goal in strengthening and challenging the indispensable computational thinking skill in our youngsters, Storming Robots will select our roboclub students to participate in the 2011-2 USA Computing Olympiad.  USACO is a very competitive programming contest.  It is part of the IOI (International Olympiad in Informatics) program which is very well known and highly regarded in international level.

Perspective participants in 2011-2 Contests:

• Matthew Sicotte (Grade10/Fall2011)
• Andre Gou (Grade9/Fall2011).

View contests schedule

 

 

FLL 2011 - Rookie Teams advanced to State Tournament

Click image to enlarge	Team : The Noisy BoyS    Sean, Andrew, Vishnu, Janathan, and John Peter    (have been with SR since 2009 or 2010) Regional: Won The Best Presentation Award.
Click image to enlarge	Team : The SuperBot    Hugh, Howard, Johnt (3rd graders)    (have been with SR since 2009) Regional: Won The Teamwork Award.
Criteria to advance to the  State Tournament has changed this year: score above 50% in all 4 categories; top 4-5 of this pool of top 50% will be invited into the State Tournament. Location of the State Tournament: Mt. Olive High School, 18 Corey Rd., Flanders, NJ 07836 Event Date: December 10th, 2011.

2011 World RCJ

Storming Robots, in three straight years, won the 1st place to represent the USA at the Robocup International Robotics Tournament. The 2011 Event will be held at Istanbul.

Representing the United States in the International RoboCupJunior division of the competition is the PI² Team,  Andrew Amerman and Salil Pathare. They will compete against other young students their age from over 30 different countries including China, Japan and Germany, etc. In addition, they will also take all the challenge to collaborate with an assigned international team.

They will also have the rare opportunity to watch many other research (PHD) and industrial level robotics AI-Oriented competitive robots and inventions from different countries all in the same facility.

2011 RCJ

On April 10th, 2011, the Sixth NorthEast Regional RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Orange High School in NJ.    There were competitors from Canada, Massachusetts,  NY and NJ. View the news video from NY-1.
Enlarge image	First Place/RoboRescue: Pi-squared The team consists of two team members, Andrew Amerman, and Salil Pathare; both share captain role of the team.  They are both 7th graders.
The Second Place:  Droidchitect The team consists of 5 members. They are Brian Chung/Gr.-7/Bridgewater, Dhevin Gupta/Gr.-6/Piscataway,  Rohan Nagalkar(captain)/Gr.-8/Bridgewater, Steven Lee/Gr.-7/Plainsboro, and Bhavik Shah/Gr.-6/Basking Ridge.    The Third Place: R.I.C.K.I. It consists of 4 members, Brian Breslow/Gr.-7/Basking Ridge, Luke Dai (co-captain)/Gr.-6/Belle Mead, Douglas Rynar (captain)/Gr.-8/Bridgewater, and Ashley Yang/Gr.-6/Basking Ridge. RoboDance Awards: The Best Programming Award: The Lunatics Assassin Droids -  Tanay Trivedi/Gr.-8/Bridgewater and Elvin Kong/Gr.-8/Whitehouse Station The Most Innovative Award:  Stitch -  Brenna Herrity/Br.-6/Yardville,  Colleen McConnell/Gr.-5/Skillman, Val Post/Gr.6/Basking Ridge Colleen and Val interviewed by the NY1 News. The Stitch's dancing Bot in hawaii costume. Captured by NY1 News. RoboRescue B: The SR-chitect -   This team consists of 3 members, Andre Ghou/Gr8/Warren, Eric Ward/Gr7/Flemington, Michael Xie/Gr7/Martinsville. There is no division of secondary and primary levels in this game. Therefore, they were competing against with high schoolers. SR-chitect  was the only non-high school team in this competition. Their performance was truly awesome. They use left-wall following rule with P.I.D. algorithms with two Electro-proximity Optical Detection sensors.  Being able to complete the whole maze with only a couple of glitches! Ability to successfully negotiate all turns in the maze is the most difficult task.  Not a single team were able to negotiate all paths either.  However,  due to the mislocation of the thermal sensor, they failed to recorgnize the victims. As a result of that, they scored less than one of the high school teams. At the second round, negotiating the paths was less successful than the first round due to their last minute attempt to relocate the thermal sensor.  But then, their bot recognized all victims!  Click here to view our project snapshot. RoboSoccer: The Great White Shark  Our  Great White Shark team consists of 4 members, Ben Brown/Gr.-10/Warren, Matthew Goldman (captain)/Gr.-11/Bedminster, Avery Katko (captain)/Gr.-11/Long Valley, and Morgan Van-Blarcum/Gr.-10/Vorhee.  They created programs with intricate, but effective program algorithms, as well as a  robust and innovative holonomic drive system.   Great White Shark lost to a couple of opponent teams which used a system with much more powerful motors system,16x stronger than what we used.  However, their software architecture design is truly superb. The team will complete a technical paper about their work and submit to the technical committee like the ACM for review.                Images from NY1 News.     The Quad Holonomic Drive System        The Player Bot with collison detection mechanism.     The Goalie Bot      RoboRescue A: The Electric Brain    This team consists of 4 membersl, Abdullah Abdel-Raouf/Gr.-7/N. Brunswick, Tarin Clott/Gr.4/Basking Ridge, William Cui (co-captain)/Gr.6/Basking Ridge, and Kushal Patel(captain)/Gr.6/Piscataway.  They all are 1st time participants. As a first-time participant, the team has achieved tremendous amount of work.This team consists of 4 membersl, Abdullah Abdel-Raouf/Gr.-7/N. Brunswick, Tarin Clott/Gr.4/Basking Ridge, William Cui (co-captain)/Gr.6/Basking Ridge, and Kushal Patel(captain)/Gr.6/Piscataway.  They all are 1st time participants. As a first-time participant, the team has achieved tremendous amount of work. Mentor: Matthew Goldman/Technical mentor for Teams Droidchitect and The Lunatics Assassin Droids. Head Coach for all: Elizabeth Mabrey

2010 FLL

Enlarge image	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 45 participating teams.
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

The Event was held on Nov 20th  at the Hillsborough High School. RoboBrain (most rookies) won the 2nd place in team work and was advanced to the StateTournament.

FLL Competition 2010

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

The Event was held on April 11th  at the NY Hall of Science in Queens, NY. 

Enlarge image	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.
Enlarge image	The First Place:To The M.A.K.S.- Michelle L., Ashley Y., and Katherine A.

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RCJ Competition 2010
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.
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!

Recognition Letter from Congressmen

Letter addressed to one of our team members Rachel Goldman.

2009 RCJ

The Event was held on May 3rd at the NY Hall of Science.  We have nine teams with various levels participated in the 2009 game.

RoboCup Junior 2009
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.

2012 ZeroRobotics

Our new 7 members team won their way into the 2012 Semi-Final.

Team members are:

Michael Xie (gr.9) (team captain)

Andrew Amerman (gr.9) (team captain)

Sid Kurella (gr.9)

Sunny Agarawal (gr.9)

Salil Pathare (gr.9)

Andre Gou (gr.10)

Ben Brown (gr.12)

All major developers are first time participants. Some participated in School Band, while some had Advanced Placements studies. However, they still managed to win their way into the Semi-Final. Impressive!

The Greatest Challenge of this game:

Requires not only programming skill, emphasize small footprint and memory consumption, but also 3D Matrix Transformation for 3D Triangulation, a bit of statistics, and Physics knowledge.

Team’s sphere has to figure how to triangulate it locations to unknown coordinates of the dead satellite and refuel station in space. Unfortunately, the signal was distorted by cosmic noise, and thus the team program must systematically redo its calculation over iteration, gather deviation, in order to arrive its calculation to the exact coordinates.

2011 ZeroRobotics

Our 5 team members to the 2011 competition!
Avery Katko	Matthew Goldman	Matthew Sicotte	Nikhil Shah	Ben Brown

Won 2011 ISS Final (Jan,2012)

Along with our allicance teams from the Riverhill High School, MD, and Rockledge High School, FL, Storming Robots' high school team won the SPHERES Challenge 2011 Championship on the International Space Station!

Read the NASA Press Release

Read the NJ.com Press Release.

Won its way into the ISS Final(Nov,2011)

This is a 3D Simulation of Satellite Autonomous Control.  Our alliance team ranked the 4th out of 18 competitive alliance teams from the United States, and Europe.  (That was after an elimination round from a total of 149 teams.)

Press Release:

• Compete in 2011 NASA/MIT SPHERE Program

2010 ZeroRobotics

Our 5 team members to the 2010 competition!
Alex Frankchuk	Avery Katko	Catherine Dai	Matthew Goldman	Oliver Katz

After a rigorous selection process, Storming Robots students' proposal was accepted to be one of the best match teams for its competition, based on their past software development and robotics experience. We are the only team from NJ in 2010.

Online news. Download a printer-friendly version of this article.

Fact sheet about this ZeroRobotics Project

2009 FLL

FLL Competition 2009
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

RCJ Competition 2008

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: Soccer Stormbotic Got in semi-final. Our algorithm is BY FAR more sophisticated than all others’. However, our bots lack in momentum. Rescue Four-Eyes 001 Won the 2nd place. Rescue Four-Eyes 002 Their batteries were depleted during the 2nd round.  They immediately changed the batteries, and redownloaded a program. Unfortunately, they downloaded  a wrong version in a rush. So, the bot went completely haywire. The referee allowed the kids to run it again but score would not be counted. Well, they quickly redownloaded the correct one and ran again. It scored the highest at that round.  Wow!  Unfortunately, the score was not counted. Deal with unexpected changes… Despite of the fact there were unexpected changes to the rule for the Rescue Game,  FourEyes 1 and 2 took the challenge and modified quickly. Since our code was nicely modularized, these kids managed to make a rather significant modification right on the spot.  Bravo!! Comment from one parent (an IT manager) I really want to let you know how impressed I was with our teams' robots compared to the others'. The intensity of your program was directly reflected in the complexity of our robots. You should feel very proud with your clubs' accomplishments. Your robots rocked!

Click here to view some the pictures at the competition.

2008 FLL

FLL Competition 2008

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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FLL Competition 2007

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.

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 At the second round, the MSCM team's robot malfunctioned and failed to move. At the last 10 seconds, with absolutely no mission achieved, the two programs executors, Rachel and Theo, decided to execute a backup program (the simplest one) which got them 120 poins just by delivering the bot to a strategic point. Unbelievable! We later found out the malfunction was due to a loosen bushing on one of the wheels, and one of the two rotation sensors.

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

Won the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th
in the Regional event

View our Teams Photo Gallery

FLL Competition 2006

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

Ranked the 10th Place out of
50 Registered Teams

View the Teams Pictures...

FLL Competition 2005
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 10th place out of 50 registered teams. They have demonstrated great dedication, passion in challenge, and learning, as well as appreciation to such mind sport.
Highlights We all thought one instance happened in the the teamwork presentation session was rather funny:
>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... "