About
Learn about Paly VEX's identity, supporters, values, and mission
VEX Robotics is a global robotics competition and manufacturer designed to inspire young innovators to lead the way toward future solutions. They provide the materials, software, and worldwide competitions for educators and students to enter the world of robotics and STEM. There are different tiers of VEX Robotics, such as VEX IQ and VEXpro, which vary in materials, challenges, and complexity. Team 4008 competes in VEX EDR, which is a middle-tiered robotics system that emphasizes versatile yet simple STEM innovation. Learn more about VEX at their website.
What is VEX?
Team 4008 represents Palo Alto High School in VEX Robotics. Our core values include innovative thinking, strong connections, and experiential learning, and guide us throughout our robotics journey. Through VEX robotics, we strive to offer a hands-on STEAM experience to all, emphasizing key concepts such as collaboration and community.
Who are we?
We work hard to ensure innovation and success in all our projects. We have two sub-teams, which each have unique qualities and projects. While maintaining individual aspects, our teams often collaborate in order to learn and grow from each other. In each team, members work on all components of robotics (such as building, programming, and driving), though some have specific focuses they enjoy. Below are all the current team members.
4008A
Kamila Wong
4008A Captain
Kamila Wong is a member of the Paly Vex Robotics Team and is currently a junior at Palo Alto High. She has been interested in Robotics since she went to a summer camp in 6th grade. She also enjoys working on anything hands on, especially fixing things around the house.
Sarah Crystal
Sarah is a junior at Paly and recently joined the team. She has been enjoying getting to know everyone and becoming more familiar with robotics!
Zander Leong
Lab Manager
Zander Leong is a high schooler in the class of 2021. With Paly VEX being his first official team, learning about robotics and contributing to the team has been really exciting! In his free time, Zander enjoys reading, art, and looking at fish. Go Paly VEX Robotics!
4008B
Aruna Anderson
Team Captain
Aruna is a 12th grader at Palo Alto High School. This is her 5th year doing robotics and has been on 2 robotics teams, but this is her first year on Paly robotics. In her free time she enjoys art, animation, and math. She is super excited for this season of vex robotics!
Lori is 17 years old and a 12th grader at Palo Alto High School. This is her third year doing robotics and she looks forward to this season. Besides robotics, she also enjoys eating sleeping and playing video games.
Lori Chin
4008B Captain
Clea is in the class of 2022.
Clea Kuo
Mr. Parker has demonstrated exceeding interest in our STEAM experience, and was recruited as an honorary Paly VEX Robotics member.
Peter Parker
Several of our members have graduated from high school and continue their outstanding work elsewhere. Team 4008 congratulates them on their achievements and wishes them all the best in whichever path they pursue. Their hard work, mentorship, and contributions have been an amazing addition to the team, and we're sad to see them go. Stay in touch!
Alum
Prashanti Anderson
2019
Prashanti was Paly Robotics' VEX team captain and has since graduated Paly. She started robotics in 7th grade and has been on three different VEX teams over the course of 4 years. She was also part of Paly’s FRC team and worked on software for FRC.
Paly VEX Robotics would not be possible without the support of several outstanding community members. We thank them for all their work!
Randy Anderson
Laurence Leong
Viji Anderson
Esther Li
Special thanks to Keith Worrell and Palo Alto High School for their dedication to robotics!
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