Logan Lawler

Crevolution team 2851 attends the 2025 FIRST Robotics world competition. The team flew out to Houston, Texas to compete.

Flying down to Houston, Texas, Crevolution competed in First Robotics Reefscape alongside over 500 teams. 

“Our goal was just have fun. That’s the main goal of FIRST is to have fun. Make sure you’re enjoying what you’re doing. One of the mottos of FIRST is Everyone’s a winner. So no matter what, if you didn’t win, if you got last place, you got first place, you had fun. That’s really all that they care about there,” crevolution designer senior Sean Pesch said. 

The team was led by CEO senior Landon Jozwiak, electrical lead senior Nicholas Tornopilsky, marketing lead senior Logan Lawler and drive team lead Brett Davis. Through troubles with flights and coordinating his team in competition, Jozwiak has been fighting for the team since his sophomore year. Though they were not expected to win, crevolutionists had an advantage in the fights utilizing a specific skill collecting algae. 

There are two scored categories: collecting algae and corral. In the beginning of each match, robots receive 15 seconds of autonomous where the robot drives off programming instead of drivers; this way of scoring gives the team a lot more points. 

“We were an algae bot because we seem to be the best with algae, because algae is the most consistent statistic,” Pesch said. “In the semifinals they want a mix of algae and corral, so us being a majority algae and still being okay at curl, we just didn’t do as much in matches.”

While at Worlds, the Crevolution Robot 2851 had a camera malfunction inside the robot disabling the automated functions. This function was broken for the majority of the team’s matches; however, they were able to make it up by scoring algae points.

“We lost vision, which means we lost the autonomous part of our matches. So autonomous is the most important part. Technically, you can get to the points,  mostly everything is worth more points if it’s done in autonomous. We didn’t have an autonomous system because the cameras could not read anything and could not follow the path they needed to,” Pesch said

The team worked hard to make it into FIRST Robotics which by itself is an accomplishment. Crevolutoin achieved their dreams for the past 2 years making it to Worlds in 2024 and 2025. 

“I just love talking to everyone,” Tornopilsky said. “The amount of knowledge that there is in one building, the amount of experience that there are with all the mentors, and just everybody has kind of the same similar mindset as you. We’re all there for the same reason. We all came there to enjoy the championship.”