by Dallas Downing The Alumni Association is a recent addition to the RoboJackets organizations and is a great way for former members to reconnect with each other for personal and professional networking. Beyond that, it provides a way for alumni to continue to support RoboJackets through donations and mentoring current students. Today we are going…
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Alumni Spotlight: Ryo Osawa
by Jonathan Spalten This month, we have another alumni we’d like to spotlight: Ryo Osawa. Ryo was at Georgia Tech between 2011 and 2015, and graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. During his time at RoboJackets, he was chiefly involved with the RoboCup electrical team. This team is responsible for some of the most…
RoboRacing’s Impact on Competition Safety at EVGP
by Joe Spall This September, RoboJackets will be participating in our first entry of evGrand Prix Autonomous, the go-kart scaled autonomous racing competition. Even though this might be the first time at EVGP, the RoboRacing team has acquired autonomous racing experience over eight years of competition in the likes of IARRC and Sparkfun AVC. The…
Newsletter Retrospective
by Cameron Loyd Last August, the very first RoboJackets alumni newsletter was sent out. Since then, it’s been a great year of monthly stories, team updates, and member features. We’d like to take a look back at the start of the alumni newsletter and the past issues created by the newsletter team. The discussion around…
Battlebots Electrical Approach
by Jonathan Spalten The main challenge of combat robots is designing and manufacturing a robust robot that can withstand the trials and tribulations of repeated contact with enemy robots and being flung around the combat arena, while budgeting weight to ensure they meet the weight limit imposed by their weight class. This challenge has to…
Alumni Spotlight: Aman More
by Jonathan Spalten Once again, we’d like to shine the spotlight on another alumnus this month to check in after their time at RoboJackets and Georgia Tech, and see where they are now and what part of RoboJackets they brought with them. This month, we’ll be featuring Aman More. Aman completed a B.S. in Mechanical…
RoboCup Virtual Competition
by Kyla Qi RoboCup 2021 took place from June 21st to the 27th this year. After several hard fought matches, RoboJackets placed third in the lower tournament, a major highlight of which was a match where our team won 10-0. The competition started with a series of regulation games before moving to an upper and…
SCC Tour
Welcome to the RoboJackets workspace, the portion of the Student Competition Center where robots are designed, built, programmed, and tested for competition. Today we will give you a brief tour of what the space looks like after being here for 11 years. When you first enter the shop, you will be greeted by our check-in…
Alumni Spotlight: Brad Geving
RoboJackets alumni go on to a wide variety of accomplishments after their time in RoboJackets, but we always hope they bring a bit of RoboJackets along with them. We’d like to take some time to check back in with some of our alumni and ask “Where are they now?” and what part of RoboJackets they…
Sponsorship Reform and Strategy
Managing sponsorships is an important part of the responsibilities of RoboJackets leadership. Sponsors provide funds, parts, and oftentimes jobs to our many members. Up until 2019, this role was usually taken on by the President and Project Managers, who, on top of their many other responsibilities, would be in charge of organizing recruiting events, reaching…