2026 Season Active • Next Competition: Tri-County High-Speed Sprint • Team Status: Preparing
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2025 Season Now Active•Regional Qualifiers En Route — Lab Build Status: Operational
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A student robotics community where ideas become real machines.

From hands-on precision CNC milling and generative CAD to real-time ROS2 navigation, embedded C++ control systems, and high-impact national arena combat. Join an undefeated student-led collective engineering autonomous excellence.

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Mongol Aspiration International School MOGUL TEAM students collaborating in the laboratory workshop tuning an autonomous rover chassis
Line Follower CodeAutonomous Navigation Unit
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PID LoopACTIVE (0.42ms)
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Battery LiPo24.2V (96%)
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Active student mechanical engineers, coders & pilots.

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Combat, autonomous, sumo & rover platforms in action.

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Participated across US, Canada, and Asia-Pacific arenas.

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14 State championships, 3 national medals, 8 design trophies.

Engineered by Students

Featured Projects

Inspect our laboratory blueprints, hardware schematics, firmware repositories, and tournament-tested battle platforms.

Hall of Excellence

Competition Achievements

A chronological legacy of tournament victories, judge awards, and technical excellence on state and global stages.

Gold (14)
Silver (7)
Bronze (4)
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2024

National SumoBot Championship

Autonomous Heavyweight

Awarded 1st Place National Champions with an undefeated 8-match streak in the 3kg magnetic class.

SquadApex Combat UnitAlex Rivera & Maya Lin
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2024

FIRST Tech Challenge State Championship

Autonomous Navigation

Awarded Silver Medal & Think Award for advanced algorithmic obstacle avoidance and comprehensive engineering notebook.

SquadFirmware DivisionJordan Chen (Lead)
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2023

International Youth Robotics Open (Tokyo)

High-Speed Line Follower

Secured Bronze Medal among 64 international collegiate and secondary teams with sub-second sector splits.

SquadVelocity SquadEthan Brooks (Lead)
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2023

All-State STEM Robotics Olympiad

Mechanical CAD Design

Captured Gold Medal & Best Engineered Platform for finite element stress analysis on high-impact polycarb linkages.

SquadMogul MechanicsPriya Patel (Lead)
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2022

Regional Autonomous Rover Challenge

Obstacle Maze Navigation

Gold Medal (Undefeated) across 12 timed trials with zero collision penalty points.

SquadJunior CadetsRookie Class '22
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Schedule & Calendar

Upcoming Events & Competitions

Track official tournament dates, public scrimmages, workshops, and squad registration deadlines for the 2025–2026 circuit.

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OCT18
Mega Sumo & Mini Sumo

Pacific Northwest Sumo Invitational

location_onSeattle Convention Hall, Hall 3
Confirmed
timer08:30 AM – 06:00 PM PST
Details & Lineup
NOV05
Autonomous Speed Run

State Autonomous Line Following League

location_onUniversity STEM Arena, Hall B
Rosters Locking
timer10:00 AM – 04:30 PM PST
Details & Lineup
NOV22
Workshop & Training

Fall High School Robotics Bootcamp

location_onMongol Aspiration International School Engineering MOGUL TEAM
Open Registration
timer09:00 AM – 03:00 PM PST
RSVP Free
JAN14
All Divisions

National Championship Qualifiers

location_onPortland Expo Center
Preparation Phase
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Tournament Intel
Student Leaders & Mentors

Meet the Team

Passionate problem solvers, CAD draftspersons, firmware architects, and veteran educators powering Mongol Aspiration International School robotics.

43 ACTIVE MEMBERS•View Full Roster
High school male robotics team captain Marcus Vance smiling confident in blue team jersey inside modern engineering laboratory workshop

Marcus Vance

Team Captain & Mechanical LeadGrade 12 • 4th Year

Specializes in 5-axis CNC machining, SolidWorks generative assemblies, and chassis structural integrity under high torque impact.

FOCUS: CHASSIS & CADbuild
High school female software engineer Elena Rostova wearing safety goggles in computer science robotics lab debugging code on laptop

Elena Rostova

Chief Software ArchitectGrade 12 • 3rd Year

Leads ROS2 Humble integration, Kalman filters for state estimation, and camera neural network inferencing for arena tracking.

FOCUS: ROS2 & C++code
Asian high school student David Kim soldering electronic components to custom circuit board with magnifying lamp in technical high school workshop

David Kim

Electrical & Embedded LeadGrade 11 • 2nd Year

Designs multilayer high-current PCBs in KiCAD, custom MOSFET motor drivers, and low-latency CAN bus communications.

FOCUS: PCBA & POWERmemory
Young female student Sarah Jenkins holding custom remote control transmitter on robotics arena field focusing intently during tournament practice

Sarah Jenkins

Autonomous Strategist & PilotGrade 11 • 2nd Year

Specialized tournament arena driver with sub-millisecond twitch reactions; oversees PID loop auto-tuning and match strategy.

FOCUS: TELEMETRY & PILOTsports_esports
Distinguished high school physics teacher Dr Arthur Sterling standing proudly in high tech laboratory with safety coat and digital whiteboard background

Dr. Arthur Sterling

Head Faculty Advisor & Physics12 Years Mentoring

Mongol Aspiration International School Science Department Chair; guiding students through engineering ethics, safety standards, and grant sponsorships.

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Professional aerospace female engineer Michelle Zhang inspecting robotic arm mechanism with tablet in bright modern mechatronics research center

Michelle Zhang

Industry Mentor & MechatronicsAlumni '18 • Aerospace Eng

Brings commercial aerospace automation testing methodologies to the high school lab; conducts weekly design reviews.

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Dispatches from the Lab

Latest Robot Club News

Match recaps, engineering teardowns, manufacturing milestones, and community dispatches from our student journalists.

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Unveiling Line Follower V4: Transitioning to 20-Channel Optical Array & Gallium Nitride DriversNew Projects
SEP 14, 20264 MIN READ

Unveiling Line Follower V4: Transitioning to 20-Channel Optical Array & Gallium Nitride Drivers

Laboratory benchmarks verify a 42% latency reduction in dynamic chicane steering response utilizing high-frequency GaN half-bridges over traditional MOSFET arrays.

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National Autonomous SLAM Championship: Apex MK-IV Scores Clean Sweep in DallasAchievements
SEP 02, 20265 MIN READ

National Autonomous SLAM Championship: Apex MK-IV Scores Clean Sweep in Dallas

Navigating complex multi-tier obstacles with zero manual intervention, Apex MK-IV mapped an arena footprint of 480 sq. meters in under 122 seconds.

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Flawless Sweep: MOGUL TEAM Takes 1st Place & Sets 1.84 m/s World Speed Record at RobotChallenge TokyoCompetition
AUG 28, 20266 MIN READ

Flawless Sweep: MOGUL TEAM Takes 1st Place & Sets 1.84 m/s World Speed Record at RobotChallenge Tokyo

Operating in the Senior Autonomous Line Tracer Division, Photon Tracer X1 executed 64 undefeated runs across 15cm-radius chicanes, delivering an unprecedented sub-millisecond cascaded loop execution to secure the global crown.

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Lab 204 Fall Hackathon: Training 28 New Recruits on ESP32-S3 FreeRTOS & LiPo SafetyTraining
AUG 15, 20263 MIN READ

Lab 204 Fall Hackathon: Training 28 New Recruits on ESP32-S3 FreeRTOS & LiPo Safety

A 36-hour weekend sprint concluded with all 7 junior teams completing autonomous obstacle runs, featuring hands-on battery fire prevention and RTOS task telemetry.

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No previous programming, circuit design, or machining experience required. We provide all tooling, high-torque microcontrollers, CNC bays, and dedicated peer mentorship. Beginners to advanced competitors are welcome.

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