3D Printing/Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing
Realize is a sponsor of the Tiger Dynasty Robotics Club at Fishers High School. Tiger Dynasty’s focus is developing student’s skills in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, marketing, and design while also developing leadership and communication skills that students will carry with them into college and their professional lives. The team is committed to maintaining a student leadership structure of the team to help foster leadership opportunities for the students. The robotics team at FHS fosters an environment for students to truly discover their career interests with expert mentors from the fields to guide them along their way. Team 5010 provide chances for the students of Fishers High School to practice, apply, and see in action the science and math the students learn every day at school. It provides students reason to continue learning and pursue fields that they are interested in. Tiger Dynasty helps guide and show students through the complete process from the conception of ideas to making their ideas a reality, showing them of what they are truly capable of doing.
“We operate as a part of the FIRST (For the Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) organization under the FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) program. As a team, we compete head-to-head against high schools from all around the state and even the world. Every year, NASA and Disney partner up with the FIRST program to come up with a game for our robots to compete in. From there, we have 6 weeks to build a robot from scratch to compete in these competitions.”
Realize is a proud sponsor of FHS Robotics by way of providing Somos NeXt parts which Alex states were an integral part of the drive train they created.
“The drive train design we desired would not had been possible without the help of Realize Inc. This year, the game will be particularly brutal on robots. It involves a lot of traversing over uneven ground, something which a standard set of wheels would not had been able to handle. We decided this year to design a tank tread drive train with suspension from the ground up. The robotics supplier where we typically get our parts does carry a pair of treads, but they were priced at nearly $200 a piece. Instead, we decided to go with a timing belt like you would find on your car, saving us nearly $300 alone. From there, we designed a system around the belt to fit our needs. Because we were doing a 100% custom drive train, many of the parts we would need to get the robot to work did not exist. Thankfully, Realize Inc. was able to help us out. Realize was able to print out our custom parts to fit the track of our desire. These parts comprise of about 90% of both the suspension and tension system. Without those parts, our team would not had been able to complete this drive train of our desire.”
