// ABOUT_SDCT
Founders & Leadership
San Diego Community Team (SDCT) was founded to provide students with a rigorous, independent environment for mastering autonomous robotics engineering outside of standard school programs.
Rishabh Bhatia
Rishabh Bhatia is the 3 time 1st prize winner of the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair. He has won a second place prize at the California Science and Engineering Fair, and has gotten the chance to apply to Thermofisher Junior Innovators Challenge. In botball he works mainly on code, and trying to fix the KIPR firmware.
Zubin Sikchi
Oversees physical robot design, structural fabrication, and mechanical strategy. Manages servo kinematics, gear train efficiency, and match-day field operations.
// COMPETITION_RECORD
Our team members bring proven experience to the table. Last season alone, each student dedicated over 60 hours specifically preparing for the Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER), winning 6 awards across 4 regional and international tournaments.
This season, as an independent community team, our students manage all engineering, budget allocation, logistics, and software development independently, committing to over 200 hours of active technical learning per student.