Team History

2019 – 2020 Season – Skystone

Hadron Knights team had a great third year in 2019 – 2020 Skystone season. We qualified for Florida State FTC Championship held in Jacksonville FL on Feb 28-29, 2020. Only 7 teams moved on to the state championship from the R.O.B.O.T league encompassing Tampa and surrounding counties - Hillsborough, Citrus, Pasco, Polk, Hernando, and Marion.

During the League Championship, the team was awarded the “Think Award”, one of the top two awards that best reflects the journey the team took during the engineering design process in the build season. The Hadron Knights team was also part of the Finalist Alliance in the League Championship.

The team won the top championship award called the Inspire Award in the Florida State FTC Championship on Feb 29, 2020, and qualified to represent Florida in World Championship in Houston April 15 – 18, 2020. The team competed with 60 best teams (out of 240+ teams) in the State of Florida. In the competition field, the Hadron Knights team was Finalist Alliance and Division Alliance Winner in the Florida State FTC Championship.

2019 - 2020 Team Roster

Arko Ghosh

Aarush Prasad

Rahul Vijay

Tushar Gona

Ishita Mishta

David Tu

Anshul Raghuvanshi

Nikhil Mishra

Rahul Danda

Maitreyi Sarka

Daniel Carvajal

2020 Florida FTC Championship Inspire Award Winner

Our robot Psi Meson 3.0 that competed in 2020 Florida FTC Championship and were part of Finalist Alliance. Scott Division Winner.

This is part of our team from the 2019-2020 Skystone season. In the picture, you can see Daniel, Nikhil, Aarush, Arko, and Rahul V. We had a scrimmage with one of the teams in our league - Masquerade.

Out pit at 2020 Florida FTC Championship

2018 – 2019 Season – Rover Ruckus

Hadron Knights had a successful second year in 2018 – 2019 Rover Ruckus season. We qualified for Florida State FTC Championship held in Jacksonville FL on Feb 22-23, 2019. Only 7 teams moved on to the state championship from the R.O.B.O.T league encompassing Tampa and surrounding counties - Hillsborough, Citrus, Pasco, Polk, Hernando, and Marion.

During the League Championship, the team was awarded the “Think Award”, one of the top two awards that best reflects the journey the team took during the engineering design process in the build season.

48 teams (out of ~150 teams in the State of Florida) participated in the Florida FTC State Championship. In the state championship, the team moved onto the Divisional Semi-Finals.

2018 - 2019 Team Roster

Arko Ghosh

Aarush Prasad

Rahul Vijay

Tushar Gona

Ishita Mishta

Anshul Raghuvanshi

Nikhil Mishra

Rahul Danda

Maitreyi Sarka

Daniel Carvajal

Our robot Psi Meson 2.0 that competed in 2019 Florida FTC Championship. The team moved to Scott Division Semi-Finals

Think Award Winner in League Championship in the 2019 League Championship

This our team from the 2018-2019 FTC Challenge Rover Ruckus. On the team, there is Arko, Rahul V, Aarush, Maitreyi, Rahul D, Ishita, Daniel, Anshul, Nikhil, and Tushar. We met up with Mr. Carson Wolf, FTC Alumni and we discussed ideas for this year's competition.

2017 – 2018 Season – Relic Recovery

Hadron Knights had a great rookie year in 2017 – 2018 Relic Recovery season. We were the top going into Hillsborough R.O.B.O.T League Championship tournament. At the end of regular matches, we were ranked 3rd and one of the 4 alliance captains for the finals, won our semi-final round and played thrilling, nail-biting matches in the 3-match Final round. We are awarded the Design Award for our creativity and robustness of our design.

As the Finalist Alliance Captain, we qualified to participate in the Florida FTC State Championship in Jacksonville, FL on Feb 2018. We were one of the six teams out of 23 teams that had the privilege to represent Hillsborough and few surrounding counties in Florida FTC State Championship.

36 teams (out of ~140 teams in the State of Florida), mainly experienced teams, participated In Florida FTC State Championship. We were the highest-ranked rookie team in the state championship. We are awarded the Judge’s Award. During the award ceremony, judges mentioned that we had captivated the interview room, and the Judges Award was awarded to us a recognition of the potential of this team in years to come. And we all personally got enriched with the experience.