With the start of the new school year comes the annual RoboJackets General Interest meetings. The two identical information sessions are the culmination of many hours spent tabling and recruiting at events like the Week of Welcome for freshmen, GradExpo, and the campus-wide org fair. Taking place during the first few weeks of the fall…
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Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Storer
by Jonathan Spalten Another month, another alumni for us to spotlight. This month, we’ll be shining the spotlight on an alumna you’ve seen mentioned before in her capacity as the current President of the Alumni Association: Sarah Storer. Sarah graduated from Georgia Tech in 2019 with a B.S. in Computer Science. During her time in…
RoboRacing @ evGrandPrix
by Dallas Downing September marked the first time that RoboRacing attended evGrandPrix, an electric go kart racing competition hosted at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by Purdue University. The team ended up taking 2nd Place in the Autonomous competition after a few intense days of testing, repairing, and racing. The excitement was high. Everyone was looking…
Leadership Retreat 2021: Alumni Backup
by Jonathan Spalten The primary activities in RoboJackets are those associated with building robots, educating our members and promoting robotics to the public, but none of these activities would be possible without dedicated members and leaders, many of whom change on a year-to-year basis. Taking up the mantle of leading even a small part of…
Alumni Association Activity Catalog
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…
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…