Team
Meet our expert coaches, each with 5+ years of VEX V5 experience!
Joseph Lipper
Build Coach
Joseph is a 3rd year Manufacturing Engineering student at Cal Poly.
He has 10 years of robotics experience, and 2 years experience professionally coaching all levels of VEX Robotics teams, including coaching students that went on to win the 2026 VEX Robotics World Championship.
Awards:
2026 VEX World Championship Division Finalist
2026 5x Tournament Champion
2025 4x Tournament Champion
2024 VEX U World Finalist
2024 3x Tournament Champion
2023 VEX California Region 3 State Champion Finalist
6x VEX U Robot Skills Champion
2x VEX Excellence Award
3x FRC World Championship Division Winner
2019 FRC World Champion
5x FRC Regional Winner
3x FRC Regional Finalist
4x FRC Autonomous award
1x FRC industrial design award
1x FRC Excellence in Engineering Award
1x FRC innovation control award
Chris Kaml
Design Coach
Chris is a 1st year Mechanical Engineering student at Cal Poly.
Chris has several years of experience as a VEX Robotics competitor, consistently performing in the 99th percentile of teams, and has coached 4 other teams in design and build strategies for the past 2 years.
Awards:
2023 California Region 3 State Champion Finalist
2024 California Region 3 State Champion
2024 California Region 3 Skills Champion
2024 California Region 3 Design Award
2024 VEX World Championships (Ranked 300/700)
2025 California Region 3 State Champion
2025 California Region 3 Skills Champion
2025 California Region 3 Excellence Award
2025 International Finalist Award at Pikes Peak Signature Event
2025 International Judges Award at Pikes Peak Signature Event
2025 VEX World Championships (Ranked 160/800)
2026 VEX World Championship Division Finalist
Hunter Dorf
Programming Coach
Hunter is a 1st year Software Engineering student at Cal Poly.
Hunter has several years of experience as a VEX Robotics competitor, consistently performing in the 99th percentile of teams, and has coached 4 other teams in practical programming strategies for the past 2 years.
Awards:
2023 California Region 3 State Champion Finalist
2024 California Region 3 State Champion
2024 California Region 3 Skills Champion
2024 California Region 3 Design Award
2024 VEX World Championships (Ranked 300/700)
2025 California Region 3 State Champion
2025 California Region 3 Skills Champion
2025 California Region 3 Excellence Award
2025 International Finalist Award at Pikes Peak Signature Event
2025 International Judges Award at Pikes Peak Signature Event
2025 VEX World Championships (Ranked 160/800)
2026 VEX World Championship Division Finalist
Recent Accomplishments
2026 World Championship Division Finalists
All 3 of us are part of a 99th percentile VEX team. We still compete at competitions. We learn from the best. And we bring what we learn back and teach it to your students.
2026 Purdue Competition Winners
We traveled halfway across the country to compete against some of the best teams in the world in one of the most prestigious competitions in the world. And we won.
The same secrets and techniques we used to win this competition are what you'll be learning.
Past Awards
Just some of the awards we've won in our robotics careers (so far).
We've traveled around the country competing against the best teams in the world, and have consistently performed in the top 1% of teams. You'll be learning from the best of the best.
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