Driving: Please use the direction guide from Horace Mann School site. Like any major metropolitan area, there will very often special events going on during weekends. Therefore, you are highly recommended to check with NYC Weekend Traffic Advisory.
Busing : For the upcoming May 21st event, this option is not available because we do not have enough interest to make it economically sensible. For your future reference: minimum of 16 people are required in order for it to be feasible. Cost ranges from $45 - $85 per person; depending on the final head count. Each child MUST be accompanied by his/her own designated guardian. SR is ONLY responsible for the arrangement of a school bus. This will be a door-to-door service from Storming Robots to Horace Mann school campus.
Schedule (remains fluid throughout the day)
Please plan this as a full day event, from 8am to 4pm. Please refrain from trying to check-in before 8am. Detailed Schedule won't be available until the very day of the event. The following reflects a typical day. Again, this is just a sample. You will be notified if more update becomes available.
8:00a - 9:00a
Team Check-in
9:00a - 10:00a
League-specific activities such as robot inspection and/or technical interviews with teams already check-in. These will be conducted throughout the day.
10:00a - 2:45p
Competition Rounds. You will receive your schedule at check-in. But, again, it will remain fluid throughout the day. You should decide the lunch time with your team mates and parents.
3:00p - 3:30p
Keynote Presentation
3:30p - 4:00p
Closing ceremony for all leagues.
All should stay until the ceremony is over.
It is a way to celebrate their effort even when they do not win. Just from SR alone, there are more than 10 teams competing. Some have compiled much more experience than others; while there are also other strong teams from other schools as well. Thus, they should be encouraged to learn from others and celebrate together; so that they will feel they are in this for the learning.
Besides, it often has a speaker, a professional in robotics, to share one of the latest technologies
or research projects.
Food
Food availability right inside the venue will depend on the location of the event. Usually RCJ/USA provides $5 food voucher for team members if there will be any sort of concession stand as a fundraising for the venue. So please use the voucher to help them raise money. Typically, you may purchase food if it is over $5.00. You may bring your own food, drinks and snacks as well. However, All must keep their pit area tidy and to clean up if they choose to eat in the pit area.
During lunch break, each team is encouraged to go together as a group.
Nicely summarized document written by Michael Warren (Engineering Teacher/Coach from Dalton School). This lists the critical points regarding arbitration in case of conflicts.
Video clips of an actual competition made by Team INPUT from the RoboCupJunior 2017 World Championship Nagoya Japan Soccer Open"Round 4" - INPUT vs EMM_Soccer(Macau) 1st half [1/2]. This clearly shows how to handle cases such as "out of bound", "Ball in Dispute"
Storming Robots focuses in computational thinking and learning in computing algorithms required in artificial intelligence realm.
In order to maximize the learning in algorithmic software development, and automation in robotics, as well as
exploration of various platform, the RobocupJunior (RCJ) stands out as one of the best choices. Here is a link to list some major differences between the RCJ and the FIRST. .
While RCJ does not win the popularity among grade schools in USA, it stands out to be apart from most other games in the states.
Robot Challenge itself involves dynamic changes in variables under their running environment. Besides, there is no
restriction on a hardware or software manufacturer.
RCJ sits at the pre-college level of the international RoboCup initiative. RoboCup is a world renowned A.I intensive game. It stresses the learning in automation gearing towards artificial intelligence. RCJ delves deeply into computer science and algorithmic programming.
At the World Tournament, besides competing against top teams from across the globe, they will have the opportunity to interface with hundreds of research scientists and engineers from around the world, and watch their amazing robotics apparatus in action.
More about our participations in RCJ.
Hardware Platform used at SR:
Mindstorms or EV3.
Arduino.
Raspberry PI.
Software:
RobotC from Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy OutReach
Open Source - Arduino C/C++
Python
Won 3rd Place at the 2019 World RoboCupJunior at Sidney in Australia
After 4 days of vigorous competitions, our Maze Team Polaris, Alexander Lisenko, Jeffrey Cheng, and Julian Lee, brought home 2 top awards from the 2019 World Robocup Junior Maze Competition - 3rd Place, and BEST Engineering Strategy Award. Tournament was held in Sidney, Australia from July 3 to 7.
Event date: July 2nd to 8th, 2019
After 3 days of vigorous competition for individual teams with total of 8 rounds, Team Polaris took home the two awards:
The 3rd Place.
The BEST Rescue Engineering Strategy Award.
Besides Team Polaris, there were two all-rookie teams competed at the event. Although not having placed top rank, with their admirable effort, they all gained substantial amount of knowledge through this rare opportunity - this will surely contribute to their future success. These teams are :
Maze team - Victor Hu, and Varun Sarabudla.
Rescue Line Open - Andy Cheng, Dhruva Chakravarthi, and Peter Lin.
Event took place from July 4-7 at the Sidney of Australia.
2019 USA RobocupJunior
First of all, we must thank all the parents for all their support regarding all the driving and long hours. The past event definitely has been a learning experience for everyone. Everyone has put in great deal of effort in advancing their own learning. All deserve a big pat on the back!
Result
Rescue Line:
First Place
N.E.R.D. | score 517
Second Place
The Twin Team | score 510
Third Place
Deep Thought | score 392
Third Place
Team JAS | score 392
Rescue Maze:
First Place
Polaris | score 630
Best Documentation Award
Dimension
Scores for other teams:
For Rescue:
Please email to office@stormingrobots.com to obtain your team's score.
For Soccer:
Please contact amy_eguchi@bloomfield.edu to obtain your team's score.
Download a campus map ( (5M version)(9K version) for all leagues at the Trinity school for your refence.
3 Forms to fill out:
An online names list for security check-in. In order to expedite your security check-in time, fill in your names here for security check-in if you are planning to attend the event. All attending adults parents, mentors and guests MUST go thru security check.
An online names list for security check-in. In order to expedite your security check-in time, fill in your names here for security check-in if you are planning to attend the event. All attending adults parents, mentors and guests MUST go thru security check.
All team members must fill in both the permission slip and risk waiver forms. You may fill these two forms at the center or
email us by May 17th.
2018 World RobocupJunior Championship
Venue : Montreal - Palais des congrès
Date: June 17th to 21st, 2018
Team Beings taking home the one of the top honors from the tournament
- Best Algorithms Award.
Team was also at the impressive 5th Place in complex Rescue Maze Challenge.
Team CPU brings home the prize for Best Team Spirit Award
This is a rookie team. Their persistent hardwork and focus despite the setback on the first day is nothing less than “admirable.” This reflects a great deal in their characters. The International Rescue Chair personally complimented the team for perseverance and continuous improvement throughout the game.
2018 USA RobocupJunior
Storming Robots teams once again continued the winning streak.
Three teams from Storming Robots have advanced to the World Championship.
Maze League - First Place
The Beings! : Ethan Wu (10th Grade) and Daniel Xue (9th Grade).
Line League - First Place
The Team CPUs : Aneesh Naglkar-team captain (8th Grade), Jeffrey Wang (8th Grade), Derek Wang (6th Grade), James He (8th Grade), and Sid Srivastava (8th Grade).
The Beings! : Ethan Wu (10th Grade) and Daniel Xue (9th Grade). Team has advanced to compete at the World Event held in Montreal.
Second Place
SR Maze 2 : Victor Hu and Shruti Roy (both 9th Grade).
Algorithms Award:
Alex Zhang and Sunny Cheng (both 11th Grade)
Robot Design (Mechanical and Electronic) Award:
Ethan Wu and Daniel Xue.
Line League
First Place
The Team CPUs : Aneesh Naglkar (8th Grade), Jeffrey Wang (8th Grade), Derek Wang (6th Grade), James He (8th Grade), and Sid Srivastava (8th Grade). Team has advanced to compete at the World Event held in Montreal.
Third Place
Anabots : Ritvik Senjalia and Vibhas Pulluru (both 7th Grade).
Algorithms Award:
Jonathan Zhang (Gr8), Shane Patel (Gr7), Derek Geng (Gr8), Nishaant Shah (Gr7)
Best Teamwork Award:
Anjali Aravindhan and Neha Vardhaman (both 8th Grade)
Best Interview Award:
Arjun Khanna and Rishi Sappidi (both 8th Grade)
Best Presentation/Poster Award
Andrew.Lin (Gr.6), Aditya Dutt (Gr.7) and and Yash Samtani (Gr.8)
Venue:
Venue :
Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Date:
- Rescue League (for both Line and Maze) : APRIL 29th
- OnStage and Soccer: May 6th
Time :
It is a full day event. Plan to be at the premise at 8am. More details will be available as we get close to the competition day. Please view the latest update .
2018 Robocupjunor Teams
League
Platform
Name(grade)
League
Platform
Name(grade)
Maze
EV3Dev | PI | C/C++ | Python
Shruti Roy (9) and Victor Hu (9)
Maze
Arduino | PI | C/C++ | Python
Alex Zhang (10) and Sunny Cheng (11)
Maze
Self-created PCB | C/C++ | Python
Ethan Wu (10) and Daniel Xue (9)
OnStage
Arduino | PI | Mindstorms | C/C++ | Python
Susan Lee (9), Michelle Bryson (10) and Angie Yang (8)
Soccer
Arduino | C/C++
Alexander Lisenko (10) and Abiram Gupta (10)
Soccer
Arudino | C/C++
Eugene Rozental (11) and Darshan Patel (10)
Line
Mindstorms - RobotC
Aditya Dutt (7), Andrew Lin (6), and Yash Samtani (8)
Line
Mindstorms - RobotC
Cy Westbrook (7), Jasper Tan (9)
Line
Mindstorms - RobotC
Ritvik Senjalia (7) and Vibhas Pulluru (7)
Line
Mindstorms - RobotC
Adith Sundram (10) and Neil Chahil (10)
Line
Mindstorms - RobotC
Srujan Kumar Damaraju (7) and Luc Bay (10)
Line
Mindstorms - RobotC
Anjali Aravindhan (8) and Neha Vardhaman (8)
Line
Mindstorms - RobotC
Navya Sinha (8) and Vishnu Gade (8)
Line
Mindstorms - RobotC
Jonathan Zhang (8), Shane Patel (7), Derek Geng (8), Nishaant Shah (7)
Line
Mindstorms - RobotC
Derek Wang (7), James He (8), Aneesh Nagalkar (8), Jeffrey Wang (8), Siddharth Srivastava (8)
2017 World RobocupJunior Championship
Venue: Nagoya, Japan Date: July 27 to July 31st, 2017.
Team Beings taking home the 2 top honors for the tournament:
- Best Engineering Strategy Award, and
- 2nd Place in SuperTeam Challenge.
Root3 brings home the prize for Best Team Spirit Award
- also placing an impressive 15th out of 38 teams from around the world.
Teams which advanced to compete in this International Championship:
Root 3 Team * Rescue Line Open League
Mehal Kashyap (Edison), Ethan Mak (Short Hills) and Jagdeep Singh (Warren).
The Beings! * Rescue Maze Open League
Ehtan Wu (Bridgewater), and Daniel Xue (Belle Mead).
2017 USA RobocupJunior on May 21st.
Storming Robots teams once again continued the winning streak.
Click here to view the awards to SR's teams. There are totally 50+ teams at the event across three Leagues.
Among 13 Judges' Best Awards across all leagues, SR teams won 5 of them. Among 10 Field Places Awards across all leagues, SR teams won 5 of them as well.
6 teams among all the leagues will be invited to compete in the 2017 World Championship held at Nagoga of Japan in July. Two of these teams are from Storming Robots:
Root 3 Team * Rescue Line Open League
Mehal Kashyap (Edison), Ethan Mak (Short Hills) and Jagdeep Singh (Warren).
The Beings! * Rescue Maze Open League
Ehtan Wu (Bridgewater), and Daniel Xue (Belle Mead).
Pictures will be posted shortly
Go here to view more about 2017 USA RobocupJunior results.
Venue:
Address: Horace Mann School, 231 West 246th Street Bronx, NY 10471. Parking/Campus: Free parking on school campus. Click here to view the campus map for location of the building where event is being held, and parking area. The event is held in the Fisher Hall(#7 in the campus map).
Our Teams:
Click here to view the full Teams and Members list and their Leagues.
Other Important Logistics:
Fee: NO cost to spectators, just the team members.
MUST READ! Special notes to Parents (UPDATED ON March 7th, 2017) Stress the Systems Engineering process, not the result...
Despite of our history of excellent teams results, we "never"
use the word "winning" as part of our vocabulary throughout the
entire process. We always stress on "challenging yourself
and have fun doing it". Please
review our principle here.
We never dictate solutions for students to follow in order to achieve best result. This is not only wrong, but also damaging in so many dimensions in terms of education. As a famous proverb said, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." All students have quite unique way to create their robot, as well as solutions.
During the competition season, this is the crucial time to heavily stress on the value of self-discipline on engineering process, and teamwork, levels of commitment, time-management, organization. They will enhance their technical area and soft skills through the process of systems engineering life cycles. They should compile most of their knowledge base throughout the year outside the competition season. During the competition season, they will systematically put what they know into practice, and make enhancement and possibly new concepts along the way.
Applause their effort...
Most of these participants have been working very hard. The challenge is much more difficult than the field appears to be. Like what SR has always encouraged the students to understand that it IS THE PROCESS where they learn the most from, not the result.
Therefore, parents, please convey the message to them that we all applause "their effort", not the result.
Parents as Spectators only:
Parents are not allowed to be seating in the competitors work pit area.
Do not keep telling your children what to do with their game. This not only
distracts the team from working with each other, but also can get them disqualified
as the host is completely within its right to do so.
IMPORTANT: In the past,
we found a couple of parents,
unfortunately, rudely intrude the team and forced others in
the team to let their own children to make calls.
Needless to say, this is totally unacceptable behavior.
You will be given only one warning. If that continues
after the warning, your child will be removed from the
competition.
The Best Hardware Solution Award / Rescue Line Primary League - AvengerZ
Team created a hybrid platform solution for its robot. It created a customized combo sensors I2C Arduino-based module to
interface with a Mindstorms/NXT as the master controller.
Teams which advanced to compete in this International event:
AvengerZ Team / Rescue Line Primary League
Ethan Mak (Short Hills), and Shikhar Ahuja (Belle Mead)
The Deus Ex Machina Team / Rescue Line Secondary League
Daniel Tang (Belle Mead), Mehal Kashyap (Edison), Shaurya Gunderia (Monmouth Junction),
Kyle Li (Belle Mead), and Aaron Fan (Belle Mead).
The MazeRuners / Rescue Maze Open League
Jeffrey Cheng (Bridgewater), Julian Lee (Sumit), and Stepan Gorelenkov (Belle Mead)
There were over 35 teams from the NY, NJ, PA competed at the AI-oriented Robotics Tournament RoboCupJunior.
The USA event was held on April 17th in NY City. Out of three leagues
which Storming Robots participated, our teams once again filled
the leaderboard, in 2 individual leagues.
Big applause to all teams' endeavor and ability to work under pressure.
Most importantly, they all have compiled great deal of knowledge in both hard and soft skills, and put engineering in practice.
Bravo to all teams!
Distinguished Awards
Each Hard skill category signifies the best design in terms of
creativity, cleverness, simplicity and functionality. Not only
the team has to show their work/product, but also must be able to present
well verbally and exhibit their documenation of their work.
Best Algorithm Design Award to
the team RoboNavigators consisting of Rishi Purohit/Branchburg
(age 11), Daniel Xue/Belle Mead (grade 13), and Andrew
Krapivin/Belle Mead (age 14).
Best Electronic Design Award
to the Beings! consisting of Ethan Wu/Bridgewater (age 14), and
Alex Zhang/Belle Mead (age 14).
Best Impact Award to the team
Dimensions consists of Luke Dai/Belle Mead (age 16), Sonia
Purohit/Branchburg (age 14), and Darshan Patel/Piscataway (age
14).
The “Best Impact” Award is for a team's positive impact on their engineering community because of their
attempt in the work of neural networking algorithm application. Despite of its final deployment not working
as well as it was wished, their effort of such algorithm was recognized as contributive and encouraged to continue.
Best Teamwork Award to
the team AvengerZ consisting Ethan Mak from Short Hills (age
14), and Shikhar Ahuja/Belle Mead (age 12).
Best Technical Inteview Design Award
- to the team OmegaBotZ consisting of Jalen Patel, Justin
Patel, and Deep Patel (all age 13) from Allentown, PA.
During the technical
interview, team was able to describe their work eloquently,
as well as present clear and concise
documentation. Speaking with confidence and charisma.
Awards for Fields Competition
Rescue Line League - Primary
1st Place
The AvengerZ Team - also won the Teamwork Award described above.
2nd Place
The Toxik Team - consists of Justin Hong/BaskingRidge (age 13),
Nikolaj Folmer/Newtown,PA (age 13), and Shiangtian
Li/Short Hills (age 12).
3rd Place
The Quarks - consists of Jeffrey Wang/Bound Brook (age 12),
Siddharth Srivastava/Kinnelon (age 12), and Vctor Hu /Green
Brook (age 13).
Rescue Line League - Secondary
1st Place
The Deus Ex Machina - consists of
Aaron Fan/Belle Mead (age 15), Daniel Tang/Belle Mead (age
15), Kyle Li/Belle Mead (age 15), Mehal Kashyap/Piscataway (age 15),
Shaurya Gunderia/Monmouth Township (age 13).
Rescue Maze Open League
This league is designed for Secondary Level. In
order to perform well in this game, team must be able to
understand Graph Theory - Search Algorithm which only introduced
in College level.
1st Place
MazeRunners - consists of Jeffrey
Cheng/Bridgewater (age 13), Julian Lee/Summit (age 13), and
Stepan Gorelenkov /Belle Mead (age 14).
2nd Place
The Beings! - consists of Ethan
Wu/Bridgewater (age 14), and Alex Zhang/Belle Mead (age 14).
With their own designed PCB.
Won 2nd Place at the 2015 World RoboCupJunior at China
Our Rescue Line Team S.A.D. (Sonia Purohit, Alexander Lisenko, and Darshan Patel)
has won 2nd Place at the Event! The tournament was held from July 19-22 at Heifei in China.
There were 38 teams from the NY, NJ, PA competed t this
AI-oriented Robotics Tournament.
Out of the 17 Awards from the Leagues which Storming
Robots' teams participated, SR teams won 10 of them.
Big
applause to all teams' endeavor and ability to work under
pressure. Most importantly, they all have compiled great deal of
knowledge in both hard and soft skills, and put engineering in
practice. Bravo to all teams!
Distinguished Awards
Best Mechanical Design Award - by Legion-X
Best Poster Award - by Team MeKANsm
(Jimmy Shi Daniel Xue )
Best Technical Interview Award - by RAW Team
Awards for Fields Competition
Rescue Line League - Primary
1st Place - The S.A.D. Team (Alexander Lisenko, Darshan Patel, and Sonia Purohit).
2nd Place - The RAW Team (William Kraft, Abiram Gupta, Rishi Purohit).
3rd Place - The RoboSapien (Eugene Rozental, Luke Ittycheria, Rohil Patel).
Rescue Line League - Secondary
2nd Place - Legion X (Bhavik Shah, Seriozha Zakharkin, William Cui, Val Post).
3rd Place - Visionaries (Colleen McConnell, Brenna Herrity).
Rescue Maze Open League
1st Place - SR-chitects (Ashley Yang,
Alexander Saff, Pranav Darbha, and Sean Doran )
Soccer - Secondary League
2nd Place - Dimensions (Luke Dai and Vadym Glushkov )
2014 World RCJ at Brazil
Won World Titles for USA at the World Event!
1st Place SuperTeam World Championship - Rescue A/ Primary League -
by our "Team Being".
5th Place Individual Team Technical World Championship - Rescue B / Secondary League by
our SR-chitects Team 1.
Best Technical Engineering Journal Award by our SR-chitects 1 Team
There are 30+ top teams under each League from different countries at the International Event.
Rescue B /Secondary - our Team SR-chitects 1 placed 5th
Individual Championship out of 29 teams.
Rescue A / Primary - our Team Beings, a rookie team, placed 11th
Individual Team Championship out of 38 teams.
2014 RoboCupJunior
The Ninth US RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the
Bridgewater Middle School on the April 13rd of 2014. There were 43 teams
competiting at the AI-oriented robotics tournament RoboCupJunior.
Storming Robots teams once again occupy large portion of the
leaderboard.
Four teams advanced to compete at the international
championship event.Fields Competition
All First Place teams:
RescueB/Secondary: SR-chitects 1 -The MASter – Salil Pathare (Gr. 10), Michael Xie (Gr. 10), and Ashley Yang (Gr. 9). (All from Somerset County)
RescueA/Primary: Team B.E.ing – Ethan Wu (Gr.6), and Brandon Tang (Gr. 7). (All from Someset County)
RescueA/Secondary: Team Tempest – Alexander Saff (Gr. 9), Dhruv Patel (Gr. 10) and Seriozha Zakharkin (Gr. 10). (From Middlesex, and Somerset County)
RoboDance/Primary: Shooting Stars – Mira Pantozzi (Gr. 6), Riya Mehta (Gr. 6), Colleen McConnell (Gr. 8), and Vaani Aggarwal (Gr. 6). (From Somerset County)
All Second Place teams:
RescueA/Primary: Team eXCeLerate – Wilson Liou (Gr. 8), Joseph Chen (Gr. 8), and David Xue (Gr. 8). (All from Monmouth County)
RescueA/Secondary: Team ThunderCatZ – Val Post (Gr. 9) and Zachary Nekola (Gr. 9). (From Somerset and Hunterdon County)
RescueB/Secondary: SR-chitects- The Rex – Andrew Amerman (Gr. 10), Andre Gou (Gr. 11), and Siddharth Kurella (Gr. 10) (From Somerset and Middlesex County)
All Third Place teams:
RescueA/Primary: Team Saja Avengers – Julian Lee (Gr. 5), Alexander Lisenko (Gr. 6), Abhay Rao (Gr. 5) and Shaurya Gunderia (Gr. 6) (From Essex, Somerset, and Monmouth County)
SoccerA/Primary: Team FC Robotics – Prateek Humane (Gr. 7) and Neelay Trivedi (Gr. 7) (From Somerset County)
SoccerA/Secondary: Team Dimensions – Luke Dai (Gr. 9) and Vadym Glushkov (Gr. 9) (From Monmouth County)
Technical Interview Evaluation
Soccer - Best Practice Award - By Dimension Team
Rescue B - Best Robot Design - by Team SR-chitects - The MASters
Rescue B - Best Software Design - by Team SR-chitects - The MASters
Rescue A - Best Robots Design - by Team B.E.ing
All our remarkable teams
There are totally 16 remarkable teams competed at the 2014 RobocupJunior Event.
Big applause to all teams who have spent much endeavor and have collected great learning experience.
Team Name - League: Members
Dimensions - Soccer A/Secondary: Luke Dai, Vadym Glushkov
Error 404.Team Not Found! - Rescue A/Primary: Arthur Wayne, Sahir Mody, Vivek Kasubaga
eXCeLerate - Rescue A/Primary: David Xue, Joseph Chen, Wilson Liou
FC Robotics - Soccer/Primary: Neelay Trivedi, Prateek Humane
Robot Roamers - Rescue A/Primary: Nathan Sankar, William Kraft, Aneesh Durai, John Paul Salvatore
Robots of Awesomeness! - Rescue A/Primary: Brian Dorobis, Lucca Cioffi, Rebecca White
Saja Avengers - Rescue A/Primary: Julian Lee, Alexander Lisenko, Abhay Rao, Shaurya Gunderia
Shooting Stars - Dance/Primary: Colleen McConnell, Mira Pantozzi, Riya Mehta, Vaani Aggarwal
SR-chitects The REX - Rescue B: Andrew Amerman, Siddharth Kurella, Andre Gou
SR-chitects The Master - Rescue B: Ashley Yang, Michael Xie, Salil Pathare
Storming Duo - Rescue A/Secondary: Daniel Carroll, Ryan Betz
Team B.E.ing - Rescue A/Primary: Brandon Tang, Ethan Wu
Tempest - Rescue A/Secondary: Alexander Saff, Dhruv Patel, Seriozha Zakharkin
The M.A.A.D Team - Rescue A/Primary: Aaron Peng, Andrew Krapivin, Darshan Patel, Milan Bhat
The Strange Quark Team - Rescue B : Brady Bean, Vishnu Pathmanaban
ThunderCatZ - Rescue /Secondary: Val Post, Zachary Nekola
2013 RoboCupJunior
The Eighth US RoboCupJunior robotics competition
was held at the Liberty Science Center/NJ on
the April 14th of 2013. There were a total of 44 teams with 169 participants from CA, NC, NJ, NY, PA.
Storming Robots teams again filled the leaderboard in most of
the Leagues:
Soccer/Primary: Dimensions - the First Place.
RescueB/Secondary:
SR-chitects - the First Place.
RoboSapiens - the Third Place.
RescueA/Primary:
Seedz - the First Place.
ShimoZumo and Chitty Chitty BotBot - tied for the Second Place
Horatii - the Third Place.
RoboDance/Primary: Team Visionaries - the 2nd Place.
More importantly, "Hats Off" to all our teams who have also demonstrated impressive
dedication and perseverance in doing their best in challenging themselves. What set our teams
apart from many others: Throughout the course of 6+ hours at the competition, they were
completely on their own. They had to make strategic and technical decisions to continuously
improve themselves.
Here are the teams:
#YOLO: Alexander Saff, Steven Chen, Tian Jin
3-Amigos: Alexander Lisenko Aaron Fan Aditya Jain
Chitty Chitty BotBot: Vishnu Pathmanaban and Hugh Zhang
Dimensions: Luke Dai, and Vadym Glushkov
Methodology Madness: Daniel Carroll, Andrew Krapivin, Luke Bernick, Ryan Betz
MooTurtles: Brandon Tang, Jesse Cross, Tanav Suman
RoboSapiens: Siddharth Kurella and Abhishek Kalita
Seedz: Sean Doran, Neelay Trivedi and Yuwen Zhang
ShimoZumo: Joseph Chen and Wilson Liou
SR-chitects: Michael Xie, Andre Gou, Andrew Amerman and Salil Pathare
TechKnowledgers: Prateek Humane, Nikolaj Folmer, Rishab Bhatt
The Baryons Team: Brady Bean, Steven Lee
The Red Steaming Robot Dragons: John Kapustka, Shanmukha Akkapeddi, Vishwa Arasappan
Team Visionaries: Brenna Herrity and Colleen McConnell.
2013 World RCJ at Netherland
Won World Titles for USA at the World Event!
1st Place SuperTeam World Champion- RoboDance/ Primary League
- by our Team Visionaries.
2nd Place Individual Team Technical World Champion - RoboDance / Primary League by our Team Visionaries
Best Technical Presentation Award - RoboRescue A / Primary League by our Team ShimoZumo
Three other remarkable teams made impressive preformance at the World Event.
RoboSoccer / Secondary - our Team
The Dimensions won its way to enter Quarter-Final.
RoboRescue B /Secondary - our Team SR-chitects placed 13th from
29 teams.
RoboRescue A / Primary - our Team SeedZ placed 15th from 31
teams.
2012 World RCJ at New Mexico
Won World Titles for USA at the World Event!
Super Team World Champion RoboDance / Primary - by our
Team Zulu.3rd Place World Champion RoboSoccer / Primary - by
our Dimensions team.
Two other Terrific teams made impressive preformance at the World Event.
RoboRescue B /Secondary - 10th from 22 teams by our SR-chitect Team.
RoboRescue A / Primary - 20th from 33 teams by our
CheezPuffz team.
Visit USA-RCJ
website about technical details on leagues, rules, etc.
Checkin-time:
8:00am
Game Starts:
9:00am
2012 RoboCupJunior
Storming Robots teams took First Place in three out of seven Leagues. In the RoboRescueA Primary League.
On April 22nd, 2012, the Seventh US RoboCupJunior robotics competition
was held at the Liberty Science Center in NJ. There were competitors
from other states such as North Carolina, PA, NY, and NJ. 40+ teams competed in several
Leagues at the event.
Winning teams:
The following winning teams are invited to compete at the 2012 RobocupJunior World Event in the Mexico City during the week of June 18th.
Epic Taco: (read about the team):
Took First Place at Rescue A/Primary League. It consists of two team members,
Sean Doran (6th grader from Branchburg) and Vishnu NV Pathmanaban (5th grader from Bridgewater).
Took First Place at RoboSoccer/Primary League. It consists of three
team members, Sunny Aggarwal (9th grader from Bridgewater) and Vadym Glushov and Luke Dai (both 8th grader from Belle Mead).
Won the First Place in the RoboRescue B High School League. It consists of three members,
Andre Gou (9th grader from Warrensville), Michael Xie (8th grader from Bridgewater) and
Eric Ward (8th grader from Flemington).
Won the Second Place in the RoboRescue A/Primary League. It consists of two members,
William Cui (7th grader from Basking Ridge), Zeriozha Zakharkin(8th grader from Basking Ridge).
(Ashley Yang, another 7th grader from roboclub, will join them at the World Event.)
Received the Best Entertainment Award in the RoboDabce/Primary League.
It consists of 3 members, Colleen McConnell (6th grader from Skillman), Brenna Herrity (7th grader Homeschooler
from Yardsville), and Sanjana Sastry, (6th grader from Edison).
Our 2012 teams List
Head Mentor: Elizabeth Mabrey for all teams.
Students Mentors: Morgan Van Blacrum, Avery Katko, and
Matthew Goldman
Teams:
Two Primary Soccer.
Eight Primary Rescue A.
One RoboDance. Two Rescue B.
(Secondary level)
Teams
(with members and registration cost for each member)
Registration: This cost listed below includes registration
and the Tshirt. The registration cost goes to the event host, not Storming Robots.
Storming Robots simply consolidates all individual
payments and send RCJ a single check on your behalf. Therefore, please write
the check to "Storming Robots".
T-Shirts included: Shirt cost goes to the shirts printer. SR is simply doing this
on your behalf.
Making a shirt wtih each individual team name and appealing color will be prized
at an exorbitant cost, approx. $35/shirt and parents have to get one as well in order to meet the
6 shirts minimum. SR will try its best to stay maximum of $20 each. SR will place the order with
a design at its own discretion. Therefore, $20 is added into the final
fee. If you feel you wish a certain design, color and
your team name must show on the shirts, etc., you must contact us
no later than March 10th. You will be responsible to design,
order the shirts for the team, and collect payments from
other team parents.Please submit no later than March
10th. Teams are registered only after registration fee is
received. Storming Robots will process the registration for
you. There is a deadline for withdrawal by April 1st. This
will entitle you $25 refund, not what said below because team registration fee of $70
which is not refundable, and neither is the T-shirt.
Cost of each team member listed below.
P=Primary
S=Secondary
RoboDance/P: Brenna,
Colleen, Sanjana
$68
RoboRescue A/P - Hugh, John,
Janathon
$68
tbd
RoboRescue A/P
- Sean, Vishnu
$80
RoboSoccer A/P - Ben B. and Nikhil
$80
RoboRescue A/P
- Dhruv, Swathi, Tyler
$68
RoboSoccer A/P
- Luke, Sunny, Vadym
$68
RoboRescue A/P
- Anish, Dhruv
$80
RoboSoccer A/P
- Ben W., Brady, Steven
$68
RoboRescue A/P - Seriozha, William
$80
RoboRescue B -
Andre, Eric, Michael
$68
RoboRescue A/P
- Ashley, Bhavik, Justin
$68
RoboRescue B -
Andrew A., Salil, Uday
$68
RoboRescue A/P -
Aaron, Hunter, Rishab
$68
RoboRescue A/P
- Ananya, Ashwin, Rohan
$68
RoboRescue A/P
- Joseph, Nikolaj, Prateek
$68
RoboRescue A/P - Daniel,
Lawrence
$80
2011 World RCJ at Turkey
Storming Robots, in three straight years, won the 1st place to represent the USA at the Robocup International Robotics Tournament. The 2011 Event will be held at Istanbul.
Representing the United States in the
International RoboCupJunior division of the competition is the PI2
Team, Andrew Amerman and Salil Pathare.
They will compete against other young students their age from over 30 different countries including China,
Japan and Germany, etc. In addition, they will also take all the challenge to collaborate with an assigned
international team.
They will also have the rare opportunity to watch many other
research (PHD) and industrial level robotics AI-Oriented competitive robots and inventions
from different countries all in the same facility.
2011 RCJ
*** Our TeamS won First, Second, Third***
On April 10th, 2011, the Sixth NorthEast Regional RoboCupJunior
robotics competition was held at the Orange High School in NJ.
There were competitors from Canada, Massachusetts, NY and NJ.
First Place/RoboRescue: Pi-squared The team consists of
two team members, Andrew Amerman, and Salil Pathare;
both share captain role of the team. They are both
7th graders.
The Second Place: Droidchitect
The team consists of 5 members. They are Brian
Chung/Gr.-7/Bridgewater, Dhevin Gupta/Gr.-6/Piscataway, Rohan
Nagalkar(captain)/Gr.-8/Bridgewater, Steven Lee/Gr.-7/Plainsboro,
and Bhavik Shah/Gr.-6/Basking Ridge.
The Third Place: R.I.C.K.I. It consists of 4 members, Brian
Breslow/Gr.-7/Basking Ridge, Luke Dai (co-captain)/Gr.-6/Belle Mead,
Douglas Rynar (captain)/Gr.-8/Bridgewater, and Ashley
Yang/Gr.-6/Basking Ridge. RoboDance Awards: The Best Programming Award: The Lunatics Assassin Droids - Tanay
Trivedi/Gr.-8/Bridgewater and Elvin Kong/Gr.-8/Whitehouse Station
The Most Innovative Award: Stitch - Brenna Herrity/Br.-6/Yardville, Colleen
McConnell/Gr.-5/Skillman, Val Post/Gr.6/Basking Ridge
Colleen and Val interviewed by the NY1 News.
The Stitch's dancing Bot in hawaii costume. Captured by NY1 News.
RoboRescue B: The SR-chitect -
This team consists of 3 members, Andre Ghou/Gr8/Warren, Eric Ward/Gr7/Flemington, Michael Xie/Gr7/Martinsville.
There is no division of secondary and primary levels in this game.
Therefore, they were competing against with high schoolers.
SR-chitect was the only non-high school team in this
competition.
Their performance was truly awesome. They use left-wall following
rule with P.I.D. algorithms with two Electro-proximity Optical
Detection sensors. Being able to complete the whole maze with
only a couple of glitches! Ability to successfully negotiate all turns in the maze is the most difficult
task. Not a single team were able to negotiate all paths either. However, due to the mislocation of the thermal sensor, they failed to recorgnize the victims. As a result of
that, they scored less than one of the high school teams.
At the second round, negotiating the paths was
less successful than the first round due to their last minute attempt to relocate the thermal sensor.
But then, their bot recognized all victims!
Click here to view our project snapshot.RoboSoccer: The Great White Shark
Our Great White Shark team consists of 4 members, Ben
Brown/Gr.-10/Warren, Matthew Goldman (captain)/Gr.-11/Bedminster,
Avery Katko (captain)/Gr.-11/Long Valley, and Morgan
Van-Blarcum/Gr.-10/Vorhee.
They created programs with
intricate, but effective program algorithms, as well as a robust
and innovative holonomic drive system. Great White Shark
lost to a couple of opponent teams which used a system with much
more powerful motors system,16x stronger than what we used.
However, their software
architecture design is truly superb. The team will complete a technical paper about
their work and submit to the technical committee like the
ACM for review.
Images from NY1 News.
The Quad Holonomic Drive System
The Player Bot with collison detection mechanism.
The Goalie Bot
RoboRescue A: The Electric Brain
This team consists of 4 membersl, Abdullah Abdel-Raouf/Gr.-7/N. Brunswick, Tarin
Clott/Gr.4/Basking Ridge, William Cui (co-captain)/Gr.6/Basking
Ridge, and Kushal Patel(captain)/Gr.6/Piscataway. They all are
1st time participants. As a first-time participant, the team has
achieved tremendous amount of work.This team consists of 4 membersl, Abdullah Abdel-Raouf/Gr.-7/N. Brunswick, Tarin
Clott/Gr.4/Basking Ridge, William Cui (co-captain)/Gr.6/Basking
Ridge, and Kushal Patel(captain)/Gr.6/Piscataway. They all are
1st time participants. As a first-time participant, the team has
achieved tremendous amount of work.
Mentor: Matthew Goldman/Technical mentor for Teams Droidchitect and The Lunatics Assassin Droids.
Head Coach for all: Elizabeth Mabrey
2010 RCJ
*** Won the First, Second, and
Third Place in the Robo-Rescue! ***
The Event was held on April 11th at the NY Hall of Science in Queens, NY.
The First Place:To The M.A.K.S.- Michelle L., Ashley Y., and Katherine A.
RCJ Competition 2010
Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey is the head coach for all teams.
Mentors: Matthew Goldman (age 16).
We have 12 teams this year. 10 Rescue teams and 2 Soccer teams.
The Flyer Windex -Brian, Brady, Doug
Team Scuba - Aum,Uday,Andrew
Apollo - Rachel,Seneca,Eric
ImaginaryNumbers - Nikhil S., Rohan,
Andre
Omega - Michael X,Sunny, David H.
To The M.A.K.S. - Michelle, Ashley, Casey(Katherine)
N.E.R.D.S - Elvin,Tanay
Peanut Butter Jelly Time - Luke, Aaditya
The Symmetrical Turtles - Akash, Stephen, Dhevin
Pi^3 - Roshun, Salil, Sam
The League of Super Evils -
Oliver, Marc, Catherine
The Greater White Shark - Matthew,Avery,Morgan, Ben
Special Remarks:
A lot of thanks to Matthew Goldman who taught both the Symmetrical
Turtles and the Pi^3, while he himself is also one of the main
developer of the awesome (complex) robosoccer game. He is currently
attending 10th Grade at the Bernardsville High School.
There are simply too many impressive and inspiring stories to be covered here to tell how much effort and
wonderful work these children have contributed and gained from this year experience.
Bravo! Everyone!
Recognition Letter from Senator Christopher Bateman
Letter addressed to one of our team members.
Recognition Letter from Congressmen Leonard
Lance
Letter addressed to one of our team members
Rachel Goldman.
2009 RCJ
*** Won the First, Second, and
Third Places in the Robo-Rescue! ***
*** 2nd Place in the RoboSoccer Event! ***
The Event was held on May 3rd at the NY Hall of Science. We have
nine teams with various levels participated in the 2009 game.
RoboCup Junior 2009
Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey for all teams.
Stormbotics
Matthew Goldman, Avery Katko, Marc Bruggemann, Oliver Katz
The League of Super Evil
Oliver Katz, David DeKime, Catherine Dai,
JustThisCool
Michael Cannizzaro, Morgan Van Blacrum, Nikhil Shah
RoboDragon
Rachel Goldman, Michael Xie, Sunny Aggarwal
Team With No Name
Andre Gou, Ben Brown, Nikhil Kapadia
RoboRevolution
David Hua, Aum Chatterjee, Akash Kumar
The Intripeds
Tanay Trivedi, Benjamin Wechter, Luke Dai,
BeatU
Andrew Amerman, Eric Ward, Uday Shankar, Brian Breslow,
The PopTarts
Douglas Rynar, Colin Reese, Brady Bean
2009 World RCJ in Austria
Representing the United States in the
RoboCupJunior division of the competition were Andrew Amerman,
Sunny Agarwal, Rachel Goldman, Uday Shankar, Michael Xie, and Eric Ward. They competed against other
young students their age from over 30 different countries including China, Japan and Germany.
Press Release: Star Ledger article
Branchburg's Storming Robots take on the World.
2010 World RCJ
Once again, Storming Robots team has won the USA RCJ and is
invited to representing the United States at the
2010 World Tournament.
Due to the cost and event dates landing during school exam time, parents decide not to
attend this World Event at Singapore.
Event date: July 2nd to 8th, 2019
After 3 days of vigorous competition for individual teams with total of 8 rounds, Team Polaris took home the two awards: 
Colleen and Val interviewed by the NY1 News.
The Stitch's dancing Bot in hawaii costume. Captured by NY1 News.
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