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OverviewStorming 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 RoboCup global initiative. RoboCup is a International 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 International 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 Int'l, and watch their amazing robotics apparatus in action. More about our participations in RCJ.Hardware Platform used at SR:
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Resource Links
Instructional Materials for Soccer Referees
2021 USA RobocupJuniorVenue: Virtual Competition.In lieu of in-person competitions, teams will showcase their robots in online submissions, live-presentation and interviews. Click here to view details!
Email us. if you have special questions about this competition.
2020 USA RobocupJuniorUnfortunately, the USA Regional has been canceled. All teams are invited to participate in the International Virtual Competition insteasd. Won Two Awards at the 2020 International Virtual Competition
 Team NERD: Peter Lin (top left), Kumar Damaraju (topr right), Dhruva Chakravarthi (bottom left), and Andy Cheng (bottom right). Team portfolio.
BEST OVERALL AWARD
The reasons for the award: BEST PRESENTATION AWARD
The reasons for the award: Go here to take a look at over 50 presentations submitted by over 150 RoboCuppers from all over the world. Won 3rd Place at the 2019 International RoboCupJunior at Sidney in AustraliaClick here to view all others
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 International 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
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 RobocupJuniorFirst 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!
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.
Venue: Trinity School in New York City.Date: May 19th, 2019 for all leaguesPlease review:
3 Forms to fill out:
2018 International RobocupJunior ChampionshipTeam 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 AwardThis 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 RobocupJuniorStorming Robots teams once again continued the winning streak.Three teams from Storming Robots have advanced to the International Championship.The Beings! : Ethan Wu (10th Grade) and Daniel Xue (9th Grade).
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 SR-OnStage : Susan Lee, a home schooler from Basking Ridge, and Michelle Bryson from Princeton High School.
Press release on the Messenger Gazette Maze LeagueThe Beings! : Ethan Wu (10th Grade) and Daniel Xue (9th Grade). Team has advanced to compete at the International Event held in Montreal.
SR Maze 2 : Victor Hu and Shruti Roy (both 9th Grade).
Alex Zhang and Sunny Cheng (both 11th Grade)
Ethan Wu and Daniel Xue.
Line LeagueThe 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 International Event held in Montreal.
Anabots : Ritvik Senjalia and Vibhas Pulluru (both 7th Grade).
Jonathan Zhang (Gr8), Shane Patel (Gr7), Derek Geng (Gr8), Nishaant Shah (Gr7)
Anjali Aravindhan and Neha Vardhaman (both 8th Grade)
Arjun Khanna and Rishi Sappidi (both 8th Grade)
Andrew.Lin (Gr.6), Aditya Dutt (Gr.7) and and Yash Samtani (Gr.8)
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2017 International RobocupJunior ChampionshipVenue: Nagoya, JapanDate: 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 Int'l. Teams which advanced to compete in this International Championship:
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 International Championship held at Nagoga of Japan in July. Two of these teams are from Storming Robots:
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).
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| 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:
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| 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! |
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| 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.
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| Awards for Fields Competition | Rescue Line League - Primary
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| 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. Click here to view the press release. Here is a video of one of the teams' execution Interview with CNN. Team interviewed by BBC |
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RoboRescue B /Secondary - 10th from 22 teams by our SR-chitect Team. RoboRescue A / Primary - 20th from 33 teams by our CheezPuffz team.
| Date | April 22nd, 2012. |
| Location: | Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ. |
| Official Details: | Visit 2012 Event
Information & Schedule site about the schedule, teams
list, and
the event details. Visit USA-RCJ website about technical details on leagues, rules, etc. |
| Checkin-time: |
8:00am |
Game Starts: |
9:00am |
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).The Dimensions (read about the team):
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).SR-chitect: (read about the team):
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).CheezPuffz: (read about the team):
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 International Event.)Team Zulu: (read about the team):
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).
| Head Mentor: Elizabeth Mabrey for all teams. Students Mentors: Morgan Van Blacrum, Avery Katko, and Matthew Goldman |
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| Teams: | Two Primary Soccer. Eight Primary Rescue A. One RoboDance. Two Rescue B. (Secondary level) |
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| 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. |
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| 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 | ||||
| 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. View the news video from NY-1. |
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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 |
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The First Place: Omega Kapa Omega Michael X., Sunny A.and David H. |
| pic not available | The Second Place: The Symmetrical
Turtles Akash K., Dhevin G., and Stephen T. |
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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. |
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| 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 |
Letter addressed to one of our team members Rachel Goldman.
| 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 | ||
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