John Stark Learn at Home senior Brianna Meisser designed and built a robot that could manipulate small PVC pipes (or test tubes) and TicTac candy containers for the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Savage Soccer robotics program for her Capstone Project.
This competition is normally a team effort, but she decided to tackle it on her own.
“I had to prototype, design, CAD, build, wire, and program the robot,” said Brianna, who considers herself more of a software/electrical person rather than a mechanical engineer. “I wanted to build this to be able to enhance my understanding of every aspect of robotics engineering since that’s what I’m majoring in at WPI in the fall.”
A modified, by-invitation-only Capstone EXPO will be held May 13 at John Stark Regional High School this year to allow for proper social distancing requirements.