Critical Hit Robotics / Teams
Same tools, same bench, same late nights. Students pick the competition that fits — or run both.
An 18-inch cube of aluminum, custom brackets, and a season of iteration. Our FTC squad designs in CAD, machines its own parts, and codes autonomous routines in Java — judged on both the robot and the engineering notebook behind it.
Faster turnaround, tighter matches. Our VEX program builds from the VEX V5 ecosystem, prototyping strategy weekly and running driver-skills laps until the controls are muscle memory. Team number is being registered for the upcoming season.
The loop
Strategy from the game reveal, then CAD. Every mechanism is drawn before a bolt is cut.
We fabricate our own parts — sheet metal, brackets, mounts — and assemble to spec.
Code the autonomous, tune the driver controls, and log every practice run.
Break it, measure why, redesign. The notebook captures every revision.