Meet the UWF HydroBotics Team
Teaun is in charge of the 3D printing for the submarine. She also designed and fabricated the thruster shrouds to get them competition acceptable. She recently graduated with her Bachelors and strives to help the team in any way she can.
Teaun Turner
Mechanical Team
Graduate - Mechanical Engineering
Jonathan is in charge of the claw design and fabrication. He has been working on 3D-modeling the claw in SolidWorks and testing it once it is printed. He also designed a custom motor controller to integrate the claw with the Jetson. He pretends he was born on Mars!
Jonathan Lavoie
Claw Engineer
Junior - Mechanical Engineering
Codi led the end-to-end development of the torpedo and marker system. She has been designing the system in Solidworks for 3D printing. She is also an excellent editor and created the team's introduction video, and worked on the team website.
Codi Petersen
Torpedo/Marker Engineer
Senior - Electrical Engineering
Jade works on the development of the computer vision models to be run on the Jetson. They are using Roboflow to create the datasets and Ultralytic's python library to create the YOLOv11 models. They are also an all around helper bee for the team!
Jade Palewicz
Image Recognition
Junior - Mechanical Engineering
Kira is the team lead and built the team by recruiting members. She has spent much of her time integrating the custom image training files with the ROS2 package, working with the DVL, and working on competition documents.
Kira Benton
Team Lead
Senior - Mechanical Engineering
