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Keys start clicking rapidly, gracefully moving across the keyboard as code flies across the screen. Data flows through the wires like a gushing river into the receiver. Gears whirr, parts creak and wheels spin as senior Maci Tu’s latest creation comes alive.
Tu is a senior who is heavily involved with the robotics program. Aside from being the president, Tu builds and designs her own bots, making her a force to be reckoned with during her team’s competitions. Tu has been in robotics for two years, but says she didn’t always have her sights set on the club.
“Honestly, I joined because it was a really hot day, and I was trying to get out of tennis practice after school,” Tu said. “One of my friends said she was coming to the robotics room, and I was kind of interested, so I followed her.”
Currently, Tu is in the process of testing out her newest bot. It can drive, pick up and place objects, and can even pull itself upwards like a gymnast. Tu designed the robot’s parts herself online, and printed them out of aluminum using a machine.
“The first time I designed something on the computer myself, and then actually made it in real life was so satisfying,” Tu said. “That was just a feeling that I kept on chasing after that. It was an aluminum plate that I had designed with a triangle pattern. And when I made it on the computer, I went to go to our C and C room, which has a huge aluminum cutting machine that you upload code onto. I uploaded my design code onto it and it cut the pattern out and it was really cool.”
Tu hopes her time in robotics will prepare her to major in mechanical or electrical engineering in college, and says she still wishes to minor in some sort of robotics program. Until then, she continues to rep the robotics team day and night.
“Almost all of my free time is in robotics,” Tu said. “I barely even see my own family anymore. But when I do have free time, I’m probably hanging out with my friends or family, going out to eat and shopping.”
