Our Team
We are Team 4470 from Valencia High School! We are a diverse team committed to developing our robot, constantly innovating it to overcome challenges, and providing hands-on experience to our members!
Team 4470 · Valencia High School
Meetourteam
These are the leads who keep the team running smoothly and working diligently to ready our robot for competition!
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Grace Kim
President · Leadership
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Alexandra Pinheiro
President · Leadership
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Anthony Pinheiro
President · Leadership
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Isabelle Phung
Business Lead · Business & Outreach
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Travis the Tiger
Mascot · Spirit
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Lisa Wang
Programming Lead · Programming
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George Zhang
Electrical Lead · Electrical
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Nathan Huynh
Programming Lead · Programming
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Thisun Lokuge
Mechanical Lead · Machining & Fabrication
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Sarthak Bhatia
Chief Engineer · Engineering
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Aarav Patel
CAD Lead · Design & CAD
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Chris Fodor
Chief Engineer · Engineering
Grace Kim
- President
- Leadership
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Subteams
Everyone belongs to one. Most people end up good at two.
Subteam 01 / 06
Design & CAD
We model the whole robot in SolidWorks, run tolerance studies, and decide what can actually be cut in the time we have.
Subteam 02 / 06
Machining & Fabrication
Mill, lathe, chop saw and hand tools. If it has a tolerance, this subteam met it.
Subteam 03 / 06
Electrical
Power distribution, signal wiring, sensor placement and the battery management routine that keeps us alive through a match.
Subteam 04 / 06
Programming
Autonomous routines, operator interface and the diagnostics we review after every practice.
Subteam 05 / 06
Drive & Operator
Practice, driver training and match strategy. The person in the seat has the hardest six weeks of the year.
Subteam 06 / 06
Business & Outreach
Sponsors, grants, fundraising, demo schedules and everything that keeps the team solvent and visible.
Mentorship
Adults who answer questions.
Our mentors are engineers, machinists, teachers and former competitors. They teach safety, tooling and technique, and they are deliberately hands-off about design decisions. If a student wants to try something, we let them try it, then help them understand why it did not work.
Life after FRC
Robotics is a launchpad, not a destination. Alumni go on to mechanical engineering, software, medicine and trades.
Engineering
CAD, tolerances and design review are exactly how you are taught to work in industry. Students leave fluent.
Software
Real-time control loops, sensor fusion and disciplined debugging under a hard deadline.
Leadership
Running a subteam, a budget and a deadline with forty other people is a management course nobody charges you for.
Meet Team 4470
These are the leads who keep the team running smoothly and working diligently to ready our robot for competition!
Now hiring.
We recruit from every grade and every skill level. Curiosity is the only prerequisite.