FISHERS ROBOFORCE ROBOTICS TEAM QUALIFIES FOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Writer / Matt Keating Photography Provided
The RoboForce robotics Team, which consists of several Fishers residents, recently qualified for a world championship competition that will take place this spring. Pankaj Negi, the team’s head coach, said he couldn’t be prouder. The goal of the team is to learn robotics, improve core values, and find solutions to challenging problems. “RoboForce is an independent team run by family and friends,” Negi says. “We have an
assistant coach, Priyamvada Rajsheel, who is also a Fishers resident. The team consists of the following Hamilton Southeastern Intermediate-Junior High students - my son Hardik Negi, and Manav Krishna, Lakshay Mahajan and Manas Yadav. Another student, Swayam Patankar, who was an earlier Fishers resident, recently moved to Carmel.” Negi works for Fishers-based consulting company Schanpore LLC. “I consult in Microsoft technology,” he says. “Priyamvada works as quality analyst at 6 / FISHERS MAGAZINE / MARCH 2020 / atFishers.com
Fiserv, a data recovery business in Fishers.” Negi notes that the team has improved through the last couple of years. “This is our team’s third year participating in the FLL (FIRST Lego League),” he says. “In FLL, you first compete at a regional level. From there, the top two to three teams go to the state level. And from the state, only one team goes to the World Festival. Indiana is a big state with lots of FLL teams, so it has two state-level competitions - the north competition in Fort Wayne and the south competition in Evansville.”
