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Close-up of robot 4650 with mecanum wheels and wiring on the field
Crusader Robotics · Mayer Lutheran

Real engineering, built by students.

CAD, 3D printing, CNC, and vision code — in a robot they build from the frame up.
Discipline
FIRST Tech Challenge
Build
CAD · 3D print · CNC
Drive
Mecanum · vision code
Best rank
#520 nationally

This isn’t a kit you snap together. Students design parts in CAD, print and machine them in-house, wire the electronics, and program autonomous routines that track targets with a camera. Every season is a full engineering cycle — design, build, test, iterate.

A pit table covered with custom 3D-printed robot parts

Designed and printed in-house.

That pit table is covered in parts the students designed themselves and printed on the team’s 3D printers — brackets, gears, and a custom turret ring.

Senior Grant Schefers earned the Stratasys 3D Printing Award at the Minnesota State Championship for exactly this kind of work.

Students with two robots and trophies at the banquet

Two robots, a season of iteration.

Multiple teams mean multiple robots, each one rebuilt and refined across the season. Mecanum drive for omnidirectional movement, custom intakes, and shooters tuned match by match.

The results follow: a national ranking that climbed more than 1,700 places in five years.

“Our national ranking climbed 1,723 places in five years — performance more than doubled.”

How to join

  1. Stop by the Robotics table at the Back to School Bash.
  2. Come to an open build night in September — see the shop and the printers.
  3. Whether you love CAD, code, wiring, or wrenches, there’s a role for you.

Contact

Crusader Robotics

knights@mayerlutheran.org

952-657-2251

Mayer Lutheran High School · 306 7th St NE, Mayer, MN 55360 See us at the Back to School Bash →