Spark Motors

FTC Robotics Team 2025 — Engineering, Innovation, One Robot at a Time

Welcome to the Spark Robotics team. We are a team dedicated to engineering, strategy, and continual improvement. Our mission is to design reliable robots, develop strong technical skills, and compete with professionalism and creativity throughout the FTC season.

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This year's FTC: DECODE

The FTC DECODE game centers on collecting spherical “artifact” game pieces, scoring them in elevated and floor-level goals, and completing field-navigation tasks guided by AprilTags. Teams must balance efficient intake and shooting mechanisms with precise autonomous routines to earn early-match points. Endgame involves positioning and completing decode-themed tasks for significant bonuses. The challenge rewards reliability, accuracy, and consistent scoring cycles across tele-op and autonomous.

Robots and human players work together to score purple and green artifacts into their alliance’s goal, then build a pattern on their ramp based on a randomly-selected motif shown on the obelisk. The match starts with a 30-second autonomous period where robots decode the motif and score, then shifts to 2 minutes of driver control where teams collect and launch artifacts. At the end, alliances try to return their robots to base, and if they completed the correct pattern, they earn extra points.

Restrictions

- Starting size must fit inside an 18″ × 18″ × 18″ cube.
- After match start, expansion limits: max 18″ × 18″ horizontally.
- Vertical expansion limited to 18″ normally; up to 38″ in some cases.
- Expansion must be physically limited, not software-limited
- No intentional part detachment
- No damaging traction devices
- No pneumatic or gas-powered systems
- No suction or floor-grabbing mechanisms
- Maximum of 8 motors and 10 servos

About Us

Spark Motors is an FTC robotics team made up of eight passionate teammates — Kevin, Anson, Dylan, Steven, Terry, Nelson, Felix, and Larry. We’re a group of builders, thinkers, and dreamers who love turning wild ideas into real, working robots. Whether it’s coding late into the night or troubleshooting before a match, we’re always learning, laughing, and pushing each other to do our best.

NameRole
KevinTeam Captain, Driver, Main Programmer
AnsonCo-captain, Mechanic, Driving
TerryWebsite Designer, Outreach, Writer
FelixOutreach Manager, Driver
NelsonOutreach, Mechanic
LarryProgrammer, Mechanic, Writer
DylanMain CAD Designer, Writer
StevenCAD Designer, Mechanic

Location: Cupertino, California

Team Name: Spark Motors

Team Contact

Kevin Li

Anson Qi

Felix Shi

Terry Chang

Steven Sichen

Larry Wu

Nelson

Dylan Xie

Contact

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Awards

Even though we didn't win any awards in the January 13 Qualifier, we still got valuable experience from it and will improve our strategy in the next Qualifier.

FLL SUBMERGED 2024-2025

Regional Championship

Qualifier: Championship in RObot game#1

FLL SUBMERGED 2024-2025

FLL SUBMERGED 2024-2025

Robot Game #2

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Outreach, Sponsors

We are partnered with the Future Builders Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on empowering orphans through education, mentorship, and sustainable community development programs. Together, we work to provide these young individuals with the resources, skills, and support they need to build brighter futures.

Our team hosted an FLL scrimmage. Over 30 FLL teams attended the scrimmage.

Last year, we hosted a fundraiser at the Cupertino Library, and we raised about $700 for the Future Builders Foundation.

This year, we hosted another fundraiser at the Cupertino Library again, and we raised about $600 for the Future Builders Foundation.

🎉 Thank You to Our Sponsors 🎉