2023-2024 Team | NewT.exe FTC Team

2023-2024 CenterStage

About the Team

Newt.exe #17080 is a Potomac, Maryland-based community robotics team in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). Founded in 2019, our core values, Engage, X-Plore, and Educate (.EXE), drive our mission during the COVID pandemic. We inspire STEM interest, promote self-learning and innovation, educate peers through virtual and in-person training, and embrace Gracious Professionalism. This ethos encourages respectful collaboration with other teams and fosters our team's chemistry, enhancing our skills for excellence.

Team Plans & Goals

Team Plan:

Our team's key planning component is balancing the goals between senior members and new members to keep the team motivated and push us to do better this season. We aim to transfer knowledge to train our younger members while also staying competitive for qualifiers and states, and seek to qualify for the Worlds

Team Goals:

Build an open and inclusive team that enables every member to explore their interests, find their niche, and learn from each other.
Train new team members, get them engaged and pass on our knowledge and expertise.
Practice fundraising, aiming to get some financial support for our team instead of just being funded by parents.
Act with Gracious Professionalism in everything we do: doing our best while respecting everyone.
Spread the core values of FIRST, including cooperation, discovery, innovation, inclusion, teamwork, and fun.

Meet the Team

Bernie

Captain & Hardware lead

Bernie is a Senior at Winston Churchill High School and is in his 5th year in FTC. His goal this year is to pass the knowledge and skills he has acquired in FTC to the new members and to learn new techniques in manufacturing and design.

Daniel

Software co-lead

Daniel is a freshman at Washington Latin Public Charter School and is in his 3rd year of FTC. His goal is to learn everything he can about Java coding and use that knowledge to control the robot with precision.

Kevin

Software co-lead

Kevin is a Senior at Winston Churchill High School and this is his 1st year of FTC. His goal is to learn more practical programming skills in Java through creating software for the robot.

Eric

Hardware

Eric is a Senior at Winston Churchill High School and is in his 3rd year in FTC. His goal is to use the skills and experiences he learned during the first year to help team on organization, outreach, robot design and build.

Tushaar

Hardware/Outreach/ Fundraising

Tushaar is a Sophomore at Walt Whitman High School and is in his 2nd year in FTC. His goal is to learn robot design, CAD, mechanical systems in general, and to be the best driver he can be.

Ram

Hardware

Ram is a Sophomore at Linganore High School and is in his 2nd year of FTC. His goal is to be able to create better designs and improve his skills with CAD and designing, along with increasing his knowledge of robotics and engineering.

Abigail

Software co-lead

Abigail is a Senior at Winston Churchill High School and is in her 2nd year in FTC. Her goal is to increase proficiency in Java and learn more about how software and hardware interact.