compass emerging
About Compass Robotics
We emerged from a jungle using our moral compass and a determination to find a way.
compass on a sailboat

Our ideals

  1. We choose a 'Student-Led, Mentor-Guided' framework where students are the sole fabricators and operators.
  2. We choose open, centralized communication over isolated decision-making.
  3. We choose Gracious Professionalism ALWAYS.
  4. We choose members who show up regularly and participate.
  5. We choose annual democracy to elect our team leadership.
  6. Membership is open to resident high school students ages 14–18 or in grades 9–12.
  7. We choose custom robotic solutions over kit-bots.
  8. We choose diversity over division.
  9. We choose learning and teaching over just doing it.
  10. We choose experience and growth over victory.
  11. We choose the team of the future and long term sustainability over the team of today.
  12. We choose to partner with agencies that support our ideals.
  13. We choose meticulous facility stewardship over convenience.
  14. We choose to engage our community over operating in isolation.
  15. We choose iterative learning and rapid prototyping over the fear of failure.
  16. We choose Coopertition and open-source engineering over team secrets.