Lobstah Bots Season Wrap
What a way to wrap up our Lobstah roll! The Lobstah Bots’ 2025 season has come to an end. After 13 weeks of engineering an entirely new robot, dubbed Beluga, Team 246 has finished its best season since 2016.
Build season started on the first weekend of January, in which the whole team came together to analyze the season and brainstorm robot ideas at Kickoff.
Following a long iteration and prototyping process, the team worked together to quickly design, fabricate parts for, assemble, wire, and program a functioning robot from scratch in six weeks, to make it to the Week 0 preseason scrimmage event.
Students work together in the lab space during kickoff.
At the Week 0 scrimmage, we got to get an early look at the game play, get our drivers comfortable with the robot, and identify important areas to improve our robot before our first competition. Completing version 1 of the robot was one of the team’s main goals for the season, and something we were very excited to accomplish.t
Between Week 0 and the start of our official competition season, our team identified and improved important subsystems of our robot; some that saw major iteration were our end effector and intake.
For our official district-level competitions, we attended two events: the Greater Boston District Event and the University of Rhode Island District Event. Our first competition was the Greater Boston District Event in Revere. We had a wonderful time at the event, and were proud to see many new members picking up roles in pits and stands!
Our robot, Beluga, scoring a Coral on the Reef at the Greater Boston event
At URI, we seeded eighth out of 37 total teams after qualification matches, and reached the semifinals in playoffs as the first pick of alliance 4. After the team’s performance at our district events, the Lobstah Bots qualified to attend the New England District Championship (DCMP) and compete at the highest level in New England for the third year in a row!
Maxwell Yu (’25) and Coco Shen (’27) load Beluga onto the field
At DCMP, we had a lot of fun playing against the top tier of teams all across the district! We also had our most successful DCMP run since 2016, a feat to be truly proud of thanks to our hard work to constantly improve.
Drive team operates the robot during a DCMP match. From left to right: Teddy Shi (‘27) Maxwell Yu (‘25) and Sharon Xiong (‘27)
Throughout the season, students gained engineering skills in areas such as design, fabrication, electrical engineering, and programming. In addition, they learned valuable lessons in collaboration and leadership. At all of our events, students got to learn and explore a wide variety of areas from game strategy to scouting, robot maintenance, and troubleshooting issues in pits.
Our pit set up! More time for photos as the robot heads to the field.
“This year I learned to manufacture parts for the robot using a variety of machines such as the vertical bandsaw or drill press, along with in the moment fixes in pits at competitions.” - Emilia M.
“One of my favorite parts about scouting and strategy is the excitement you get from trying to predict which alliance of robots will win. It’s really reassuring to know that all of the work you did scouting robots for hours makes a huge difference in how our team plays, to the point where it can affect our rankings in the event and how well we do overall.” - Sabina ‘28
“I love this team because it always inspires me to see how much passion and excitement everyone has to learn more about robotics, no matter their prior experience level. It’s been amazing to watch this team improve so much in the last four years, and I’m going to miss being part of its wonderful community :D” —Kendree ‘25 (team captain)
Celebrating after winning our last match of the competition season at DCMP
Our work during build season and at competitions did not go unrecognized, as we won an award at every event we attended: the Excellence in Engineering award at URI, the Gracious Professionalism award at Greater Boston, and the Team Spirit award at District Championships, celebrating our excitement in stands and our dedication to fostering a supportive community. This is our sixth consecutive unique award, continuing our two-year streak, which truly shows our versatility as a team!
The team poses after winning the Team Spirit Award at District Championships
The Lobstah Bots’ season has come to a clawsome close. Thank you to the parents, mentors, faculty members, and volunteers who have supported the team at every moment along the way! Looking forward to making even bigger waves next year!
Thank you for all your contributions! If you want to be more involved or have any questions, you can email us at lobstahbots@gmail.com and we would be happy to respond!
Sincerely,
The Lobstah Bots
