By Jon Machinski The road to semifinals was not as easy as we had hoped. We did start off day 2 right, I woke up at 5:45 am and got to the daily draw a little late, but still got us a 12 noon start time. This was alright since we could use the setup […]
By Susana Trac Monday was the day the Mechanical team arrived at competition, which conveniently coincided with the day our shipping crate finally showed up at the hotel. The first thing I did when I arrived in San Diego was provided false information. Classic. Since the arrival time of my flight was half an hour […]
By Juan Rojas San Diego here we come! Today most of our RoboSub 2018 team made their way to San Diego where the 21st annual RoboSub competition is set to take place. After countless hours of work it has all come down to this. My journey to the airport was a balancing act between trying […]
The alarm that is Jon blared loud throughout the rooms, waking all of us up. From under my pillow, I peaked at the clock. In red block numbers it showed 6:30. Wow, that's early. But I guess we have our static judging today at 8:50, so we have to be prepared! For breakfast, it was […]
"Get up everyone!" Jon bawls at those sleeping sacks of exhausted engineers like a military corporal who caught his soldier's sleeping on duty. "Oh god, not again" I think to myself. The first pool test is scheduled for 7:30 so its no surprise that everyone was essentially sleep walking as we piled into the […]
It's 1:00 in the morning, the epoxy has dried, and the robot is ready to go in the pool and get tested. "Glug glug", the sound that makes us immediately freeze to our spots as water starts leaking inside Auri like a faucet. Suddenly, Brayden and Mike jumped to action, pulled Auri out of the […]
First day of competition week. Woah, that came up fast. You can tell the team is getting excited as they arrive at the hotel, throw their stuff in the rooms, and go off to explore! By 3:00pm, everyone had arrived and went to go grab food. The few stranglers who didn't get on the food […]
Our June Newsletter is out now! We review the awesome unveiling and are revving up our engines for our upcoming competition! Thank-yous go out to everyone, but a special shout out goes to Jacky Chung. He only started ARVP last Fall and has achieved so much! Read on... Wish to join the mailing list? Click […]
In just a few weeks we will be having our unveiling of Auri on June 24th! We are so pumped 😀 Check out our progress and more details in the May newsletter below! Shout out to Alain for being so driven and an incredible asset to ARVP. He gets all his work done before he […]
Do you smell that in the air? It smells like FREEDOM. Exams are over and we have gone full tilt into building Auri. In our newsletter we talk about machining the new hull and our choice for a new IMU. And our member of the month? Joined as of last summer, James is undoubtedly one […]
Classes are ending and summer is approaching... and so are finals... That's ok though because the legend of AURI is upon us! Parts have been ordered, pool tests are being conducted and all the while our members are studying for finals. It is a real show of how dedicated ARVP members are. Not to mention […]
It's March already? Time FLIES! Our USEED campaign recently came to a close and we are so humbled by the support we received. Read about it in our Newsletter for February! For the Member of the Month, we give a HUGE thank you to Andrew for his incredible skill with a camera and an electrical […]
