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Team History

Pioneer Robotics was founded in 2017 to give students a chance to further their skills in engineering, programming, design, and thinking. Two years later, in 2019, we earned our first ever spot at the World Championships in Detroit. Out of the 7,000 existing First Tech Challenge (FTC) teams, Pioneer Robotics placed 1st in autonomous programming and 20th overall. Along with our world ranking, Pioneer Robotics has been recognized as a top tier team with 6 Inspire Awards (given to the team that best embodies the FTC program), the Motivate and Connect awards for our community outreach efforts to local STEM communities, and the Collins Aerospace Innovate and Design awards for our unique and effective robot design.

Our Mission

The primary goal of Pioneer Robotics is to provide members with the opportunity to learn many aspects of robot design, construction, programming, and competition experience from mentors and experienced FTC members. We seek to instill FIRST's ideal of gracious professionalism, which encourages best engineering practice through collaborative competition, serving the community through outreach activities and inspiring younger students to get excited about STEM fields. In addition, FIRST provides a platform for Saint John's students to practice the Xaverian virtues of simplicity, zeal, compassion, humility, and trust. By competing in FTC Robotics, students practice the skills necessary to participate in emerging technologies.

Team Members

Ryan Bui

CAD

Cale Jackson

Design & Build

Ryan Jenoski

Outreach/CAD

Alan Li

Programming

Rohil Mohan

Co-Captain, Outreach

Rushil Mohan

Co-Captain, Design & Build

Shreyas Muzumdar

Design & Build

Ryan Pergola

Programmer

Pranav Ramaswamy

Outreach/CAD

Darren Saito

Outreach

Ryan Saito

Outreach

Shiraaz Sayeed

Co-Captain, Design & Build

Sidharth Subbiah

Outreach

Omkar Vaddi

Design & Build

Brady Wynn

Programmer

Accolades

Inspire Award Winner

Design Award Winner

State Winning Alliance 1st Pick

State Motivate Award Winner

Connect Award

State Finalist Alliance

Think Award

Inspire Award Winner

State Inspire Award Winer

Inspire Award Winner

Connect Award

Collins Aerospace Innovate Award

Inspire Award Winner

State Champion

20th in the World

1st in Autonomous Programming

Inspire Award Winner