From POE I moved to an iLEAD robotics class which pushed me to compete in VEX Robotics, making me a completer in the engineering pathway, under my leadership our team has pushed the bar and made iLEAD a competing team, winning awards and making iLEAD's first appearance in the knockout rounds (we made quarterfinals), we hope to go even further this year and contend at the state level. By developing our robotics program we will help iLEAD network and build stronger relationships around the VEX community and generate more interest in our school. I learned some very basic programming fundamentals in POE but we took this to a much bigger level in robotics engineering. We started off the year by taking Carnegie Mellon's robot coding course, which pushed me to become an expert in RobotC (The VEX coding language). I was also given the opportunity to become certified by Carnegie Mellon for robotics coding. This is yet another certification I can put on my college resume and co-op/job applications. This year VEX changed it's programming system from RobotC to a more universal coding language, C++. During robotics I taught myself the new language allowing me to master two coding languages but more importantly giving me a foundation in coding that I could universally apply to other systems that use a C++ format. I was able to use these skills to learn some basic G-code, a manufacturing programming language, allowing myself to  not only build a stronger relationship with Wilcox Machine Company but also giving me a platform to launch a career in coding and operating manufacturing machines. Our school recently purchased a NAO humanoid robot and it sat around for awhile with nobody taking the time to learn how to code or work with it. I built my final project around this robot, creating a interactive workshop curriculum going over OSHA regulations and basic personal protective equipment. this project helped me learn more about OSHA safety as how to code in both python and the robots built in graphical programming this will help me in the future when I run into python based programs which are sure to come up in my engineering education. I was also able to build interest in the NAO robot and hopefully inspire other students to explore its capabilities. another cool thing about this project was it allowed me to experiment with robotics in education, this is something that I think will become big in the future and a possible career opportunity. Robotics Engineering was one of the most eye opening courses of my high school journey so far and it has helped narrow my career/education interests to mechanical and robotics engineering.