TRC

Overview

TRC is a team of mostly college-age students from the Tufts Robotics Club at Tufts University, and is based out of Medford, Massachusetts. TRC has competed in four NHRL competitions to date, with the first unofficial appearance being the April 2022 competition, the first official appearance occurring at the January 2023 competition, and the latest being in May of 2023.

The name TRC was chosen because the club has never officially been granted official authorization to use the Tufts brand outside of the university. As a result, the team likes to joke that TRC is an acronym that stands for anything you can think of that is not Tufts Robotics Club. Asking different team members will yield different answers as to what they consider TRC to mean; team member Tom Jaeger has said that TRC stands for Total Robot Chaos, while team member Max Morningstar claims it stands for Team Roboctopi: Combat Division, in reference to his FRC team of the same name.

Captains

• Teo Patrosio
• Tom Jaeger
• Douglas Lilly
• Max Morningstar
• Ryan McFarlane

Robots

Robot	Captain	Weight Class	Competitions	Years Active	Wins/Losses
†Azrael	Teo Patrosio	Beetleweight	April 2022	2022	0-0
‡Shoestring	Tom Jaeger	Beetleweight	April 2022	2022	0-2
⸸Utilitarian Hoar	Douglas Lilly	Beetleweight	April 2022	2022	0-2
Stress Concentration	Tom Jaeger	Beetleweight	January 2023 March 2023 May 2023	2023	1-3
UH... foot	Douglas Lilly	Beetleweight	January 2023 March 2023	2023	1-3
Deep Cut	*Max Morningstar	Beetleweight	January 2023 March 2023 May 2023	2023	1-5

†Originally competed as Team Azrael

‡Originally competed as team Fingers Crossed

⸸Originally competed as team UH huh

*Captained by Ryan McFarlane for March 2023

Wins: 3

Losses: 15

Gallery

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