New York State High School Rowing Championships 2023

May 2023

The 2023 New York State Scholastic Champions was held in Saratoga Springs for 2-days during May. This competition is open to all high school rowing teams in New York. It is the most important event of the year, where each team competes to be the best in the State. 

My team practices and races in smaller boats. Quad, double and single categories (non-coaxed boats) are the categories that we race in.

I raced in all three of these categories from the bow position, steering and guiding my teammates.

Results:

NY STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS  May 13, 2023 – May 14, 2023

  • 3rd place in U17 / Boys Junior 4x
  • 6th place in Boys Junior 2x (in 34 entries)
  • 2nd place in Boys U17 / Junior 1x

Designing a Simple Automaton

June 2022

The project started with us designing the boxes in Autodesk Inventor.  Our teacher talked to us about the assembly lines, how each person can have one job and the product is passed from one person to another down the line.  He told us that the production speed is determined by the slowest person. To observe this fact, we built our own boxes in an assembly line.  One teammate measured, another drilled, and the last glued the wood.

Next, we had to design our cams and cam followers (shapes that are placed inside the box to create the motion), and objects in Autodesk Inventor.  I chose to use a circle and a hexagon as my cams and two figures from Minecraft – Steve and a Creeper as my animated objects.  We used laser cut wood to create our cams / followers and a 3D printer for the objects.  Unfortunately, we had only orange colored 3D material, so I ended up with an orange Creeper instead of a green one.

Course: Design and Drawing for Production PLTW

Tools used: 

  • Autodesk Inventor
  • Laser Cutter
  • 3D Printer

New York State High School Rowing Championships 2022

May 2022

Racing in the high school championships after middle school / mod events was much more challenging. Going into the high school category meant racing with older students. Kids that are taller, and more experienced.

It is interesting to watch teams as they prepare for racing. You can see teams like ours that are very young as well as groups of kids who look like college students.

NY STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS  May 14, 2022 – May 15, 2022

Result:

  • 3rd place in Boys Freshman 4x

3D Modeling Project

March 2022

I reverse engineered an Automoblox Car – a toy car for children.

My first step was to measure the car using Dial Calipers. Later, I  modeled all the parts of the car in a 3D modeling software and created working drawings for the original car.

And as a last step, I reviewed the design with my teammates, and came up with design improvements. I am so proud of what I have accomplished!!!

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