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The Upper St. Clair FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) Robotics team #53465 is aptly named ‘Mechanical Mayhem.’ 

‘Mechanical Mayhem’ (pictured from L to R): Reyansh Vijaywargiya, Shreyan Mali, Avik Pandey, Lucas Liu, Bernard Huang, Colby Caplan. (Not pictured): Revanth Kompala

 The team is made up of 7 middle school students from Fort Couch Middle School, in Upper St. Clair. Team members are: Colby Caplan, Bernard Huang, Avik Pandey, Reyansh Vijaywargiya, Shreyan Mali, Revanth Kompala, and Lucas Liu. The student team is lead by Jake Caplan - Head Coach, and Assistant coaches Ashish Vijaywargiya and Rajesh Kumar.

FIRST® LEGO® League introduces science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to children ages 4-16 through fun, exciting hands-on learning. Participants gain real-world problem solving experience through a guided, global robotics program, helping today's students and teachers build a better future together. Their three divisions inspire youth to experiment and grow their critical thinking, coding, and design skills through hands-on STEM learning and robotics.

The Fort Couch Middle School team has multiple wins under their belt, and is currently in development of their Innovation Project, the ‘FLOATA-BUDDY.’ Per the team website – “The FLOATA-BUDDY will serve your safety needs when floods come pouring in. With the press of a button, your FLOATA-BUDDY will inflate and float you up to the surface unharmed.”

Also according to their website, the team chose to pursue this projects because “Many people in countries around the world have to deal with the dangers of flooding or getting stuck underwater when performing maintenance on ships and docks. With the FLOATA-BUDDY, it allows you to have something to pull you up out of the water, and then continue to hold onto until you can get to safety. It is made to be refilled with common household recyclable compressed air dusters that will give you multiple uses for your FLOATA-BUDDY. We decided against CO2 cartridges because CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and they are not as commonly found in the homes of the average people. Our product is cheap to produce opening up a wider audience that might need this product able to get it.”

To learn more about the Mechanical Mayhem team and their projects, visit their website: https://sites.google.com/uscstudents.org/mechanicalmayhem53465/home.

To learn more about the USC Robotics FLL league, visit

https://www.uscrobotics.org/first-lego-league

To learn more about First Lego League, visit https://www.firstlegoleague.org/.

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