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2012 Conquest of Millikan Islands
The Conquest of Millikan Islands
The Conquest of Millikan Islands
27th Annual Engineering Design Competition
Thursday, March 8, 2012, Millikan Pond

2012 Winners






The Mission
The fundamental challenge of engineering is solving problems while meeting basic constraints. The ME72 students were tasked to design, build, and operate under manual and/or autonomous control a team of vehicles that will:
- Retrieve Ping-Pong balls from a land-based dispenser.
- Place these balls in island containers in the water.
- Navigate autonomously to deposit a ball on an island in the autonomous zone.
- Return from, and exit, the autonomous zone.
- Compete with the opposing team to reduce their score while maintaining their own.
Design Challenges
The contest period is divided into rounds. Each round consists of 5 minute heats, where a heat consists of a head-to-head competition between two teams. After two losses a team will be eliminated from the competition. Each heat is divided into these 4 main intervals. The winner will be the team with the most points at the end of the competition.
Team | Team Members |
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Dim Sum 41 |
Jacinto Dominguez Hanna Dodd Matt Fu Christine Viveiros |
Flying Dutchmen |
Supriya Iyer Vivian Zhang Timea Kosztin Mason Freedman Sebastián Rojas Mata |
ISIS |
Stephen Schwee Brice Nzeukou Aric Fitz-Coy Blaine Matulevich |
MiscoM |
Eric Chang Thimal de Alwis Stephany Lai Adrian Mitrea |
Nameless |
Wesley Swank Thomas Harris Kent Koyanagi Peter Ngo |
Rambo SWAG |
Arjun Subramani Chandar Ayooluwakunmi Oluwafemi Jeje Xiaotong (Tony) Wu Nikola Georgiev |
Robotics Anonymous (Winner) |
Diego Caporale Vicky Yuan Tian Rory Shevin Anum Jang Sher Zipeng (Hunter) Zhao |