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Team Echoes
Benjamin Filippenko (Benjamin.Filippenko@gmail.com)
Sergiy Nesterenko (SergiyNesterenko90@gmail.com)
We are two high school students from Irvine, California. Ben attends Woodbridge High School in Irvine, and Sergiy goes to Dana Hills High School in Laguna Niguel. Sergiy went to Woodbridge until he moved in Spring 2008.
We met in the FIRST robotics club at Woodbridge in 2007. Since then, we have become good friends and have continued to pursue robotics during and outside of FIRST.
Our main inspiration occurred during the FIRST 2008 competition when programming an omniwheel robot, Zippy 1, to respond to a gyroscope. After the failure of Zippy 1, we decided to create Zippy 2 for a competition outside of FIRST and our high school.
Zippy 2 ended up winning the RoboMagellan competition at RoboGames 2008 after two months of hardcore work at then end of our junior year of high school.
After greatly expanding our robotics knowledge and expertise through Zippy 2, we realized how much our FIRST team did not know. We decided to run a summer robotics camp during summer 2008 to teach each member of our team how to fabricate, wire, and program a driveable robot. The knowledge and experience gained by each team member has immensely improved our FIRST team as a whole.
In addition to running the summer robotics camp, we decided to build another robot over the summer. We wanted to make a robot that walked instead of drove on wheels. While summer camp teams were building their robots, we worked on our six legged hexapod robot. Ramanan Kandasamy (Ram.Kandasamy@gmail.com) joined us for the hexapod project.
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