About Us

Introduction

We are an experienced and completely student-run high school club whose members work on both real life engineering projects and participate in the VEX Robotics Competition.

Around 10 years old now, our club takes pride in its members’ teamwork and problem solving skills. We also heavily emphasize the engineering design process and ensure that all members have knowledge of such engineering aspects through our yearly seminars.

Philosophy

Our club is driven by a strong passion for engineering. Due to this, we have always stressed the importance of the Engineering Design Process and ensure that each and every one of our members knows about proper design protocol through our Academy program. The Gael Force Academy program displays another one of our priorities: sharing knowledge. We make sure that everyone has a place in Gael Force, regardless of experience. Our club is actively sharing knowledge in the VEX community, as well. We remain active on VEX forums and our own site has a section where we share not only our robot's advancements but all assistant software that our talented team of developers creates.

We think that a good team has more than just a good bot. Our teams stress a well-rounded design process. Each of our teams focuses on their Documentation just as much as their bot performance. The process of properly documenting work ensures that the team gains a concrete understanding of the multitude of engineering concepts that go into every bot. The documentation is used by new members and the Gael Force Academy as a reference tool to teach and reflect on the design process using live examples from our numerous teams. (The Resources page shows our Programming Binders, Build Guides, and other documentation that can be used to learn.)

History

Our club has roots that run deep. When we started off, Gael Force Robotics consisted of a single team of robotics enthusiasts. It was a club purely for those with a burning passion for innovation and deep knowledge of engineering. Throughout the years, we’ve managed to expand to a scale that none of the founding members could have imagined. The club is now open to anyone with an interest, we can handle giving them the technical skills needed.

Throughout the years, we’ve gained and lost many people and teams. Our Alumni network consists of people from schools like Yale, Berkely, Purdue, and more. We take pride in staying connected with our previous members. Many of them stay active in our Discord servers and will pop into meets and competitions whenever they are able to. Their wisdom and input is highly respected and extremely valuable. They are a vital part of our teaching system and many of them end up mentoring other VRC teams after they graduate in order to give back to the community that allowed them to learn so much.

Mentor

Our role model in engineering is Ms. Chou, an engineering teacher at Dublin High School. She is the head of the engineering academy. The engineering academy is a program in our school that encourages students to pursue occupations in engineering and gives opportunities for all students to gain more engineering experience. In the earlier years, the engineering academy had a majority of males and less female engineers. However, Ms. Chou changed this and was able to help make the ratio of female to males 1 to 1 this year. She also teaches Digital Electronics and Principles of Engineering. She is very dedicated to the goal of promoting equality in the engineering workforce. She is our role model because she shows us that you can contribute to the engineering field, regardless of your gender.

Learn More

For updates on Gael Force, visit our Blog.

For information about specific members or teams, please visit the Teams section of the website.

If you have any other questions, feel free to Contact Us.