Mechanical Engineering Team Member designing, building, and validating competition robot mechanisms for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) over two seasons.

• Designed a constant-force spring climbing mechanism in SolidWorks that lifts a 60 kg robot 1 m vertically in under 3 seconds; validated through FEA structural analysis and iterative field testing across 6 prototype revisions; managed CAD versioning with TortoiseSVN
• Collaborated on a computer vision game-piece detection pipeline using OpenCV and PyTorch; annotated 2,000+ images and deployed a real-time Raspberry Pi inference system achieving ~90% accuracy
• Fabricated aluminum and plastic components using lathe, drill press, bandsaw, tapping tools, and additive manufacturing for both prototype and competition-ready hardware