The Fighting Unicorns (FRC Team 2399)

🦄✨ Hello, Unicorn Friends & Families! ✨🦄
How is June already behind us, AND we’re already a couple of weeks into July? 🌞 🩷
This summer has been full of progress! From reorganizing, taking inventory, and tackling exciting summer projects to preparing for our next group of leaders!! Our team has been hard at work.
We’ve also spent a lot of time planning outreach for the upcoming season, brainstorming ways to make an even greater impact in our community. 💡🌎 Through this process, we’ve reflected on just how much our community supports us—and we couldn’t do it without you.
A huge THANK YOU to our incredible sponsors and supporters:
🩷Hathaway Brown School
🩵Rockwell Automation
🩷Gene Haas Foundation
🩵 Ball
🩷 Novelis
🩵 Unicorn Friends & Families
🩷 PTC
🩵 Hometown Threads
🩷 Intuitive Foundation
🩵 BeeFree
🩷 And all of our amazing sponsors and supporters!
Your generosity and encouragement make everything we do possible. 🌟
With the rest of July and all of August ahead, we’re excited to keep building, learning, and preparing for an incredible season. We can’t wait to share what’s next! 🚀🦄
✨ With magic,
The Fighting Unicorns 🩷🩵

SENOIR SPOTLIGHT✨: Our last senior, the fabulous fabrication lead, McKenzie! Joining her sophomore year, she dedicated herself to helping herself and her teammates develop building skills on the team! McKenzie is an extraordinary photographer who enjoys watching Formal 1! She’s a powerhouse of a pit captain and is picture-perfect when it comes to running media for the team! McKenzie is aiming for the stars, studying Astronomy and Environmental Science at Franklin and Marshall College! GOOD LUCK AND GO DIPLOMATS 🦄❤️⚖️

SENIOR SPOTLIGHT✨: Hey Jessie! Our courageous team captain dedicated 4 years to the team! Working as a member of our electrical subteam! She is a master at playing the clarinet and is a member of two orchestras! Proud to say that she also won the mentor award at an FLL competition! Her skills are going to be electrifying past high school because she will be studying electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech ! Jessie did a tremendous job at leading our team this year; it felt like a party every day! GOOD LUCK AND GO YELLOWED JACKETS! 🦄❤️🐝

SENIOR SPOTLIGHT✨: Our outreach lead, Aashvi! Has worked tremendously at working with her teammates and community to create amazing outreach events this year! While learning to change the world through Model UN and being a star center back in soccer, she has put in the time and effort to be an amazing programmer! The University of Pennsylvania scored a goal for admitting Aashvi for bioengineering! GOOD LUCK AND GO PENN QUAKERS 🦄❤️ 👨🏽🎩

SENIORS SPOTLIGHT ✨: Clare, another one of our amazing senior designers! Joining the team her junior year, she has excelled at creating beautiful robots in Onshape! Not only is she good at Onshape, she is known for her stunning handmade sweaters, along with being a talented ice skater ⛸️! Clare will be studying at Colby College! GOOD LUCK AND GO MULES 🦄❤️🫏

SENOIR SPOTLIGHT ✨: Ellie, our next big engineer, is always dedicated to her STEM career! From our school’s Science, Research, and Engineering program to her many hours dedicated to our robotics team! If there was a build meeting or outreach event, Ellie would most likely be at both 😎! From pink and blue shoelaces and trading a million shirts at competition to Mechanical Engineering at Case! GOOD LUCK AND GO SPARTANS! 🏛️❤️🦄

SENIOR SPOTLIGHT ✨: Joining the team in her sophomore year, Maya took the FRC coding world by storm! Maya brought serious dedication and is always driven to do better! She is always ready to uplift others! Maya’s awesomeness is always returning true! 👾 Through her perfect calculation, she is set to land in TORONTO! GOOD LUCK FAM AND GO LUCK TRUE BLUE! 🦫 ❤️🦄

SENOIR SPOTLIGHT ✨: Here is our amazing Impact lead and presenter! She’s a strong center mid on the soccer field and a sound cello player! Vivian works countless hours perfecting our teams’ impact presentation with the help of others. Her funny and prolific attitude is what really gave the programming their strength this year ☺️! Vivian will be studying biomedical engineering at Columbia University! She really puts the smart in Smart Polymers & Hydrogels! GOOD LUCK AND GO ROAR LIONS 🦁❤️!

SENOIR SPOTLIGHT✨: Arsheya, one of our bright and shining stars on the fabrication team! Arsheya is someone who loves to hang out with friends, travel, and is always ready for a quick photo shoot with friends! Her radiant personality was one of the things that made fabrication special this year 🪩! Arsheya will be studying biology! And I’m sure her success will be all over the Web 🕸️ because she is attending the University of Richmond! GOOD LUCK AND GO SPIDERS 🕷️ ❤️🦄

SENIOR SPOTLIGHT ✨: Our outspoken lathe machine queen, Azra, is making her debut as our 2399 alumna who was never shy of sharing her ideas and holds a powerful amount of confidence! While on the fabrication team, she developed flawless skills on the lathe! Azra will find herself in the Big Apple at Barnard College working hard, studying Economics while also finding time to crochet a large blanket 😂🧶! GOOD LUCK AND GO BEARS!🐻 ❤️🦄