Who We Are

We are a robotics team based in denver colorado

Cherry Creek High School, despite having a strong FLL team at both of its feeder middle schools (Campus Middle School and West Middle School), did not have a FIRST Robotics team of its own. Interested students coming out of Campus Middle School had no way to explore robotics at the high school level or apply the skills they learned in FLL, leaving a huge reservoir of engineering potential and interest uncultivated. Several students who had past experience in FRC noticed this gap in the educational opportunities at Creek and took the initiative to start Team 4550.

 Students set the foundation for the team by speaking with administrators to gain school support, contacting mentors and local sponsors, and by recruiting fellow classmates. State legislation was recently passed to provide a grant for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in the Cherry Creek School District. The remainder of our costs were covered by our sponsor technology consultant Booz-Allen Hamilton.

Our sponsors

Our leaders

Team  Captain

Katja Maucec

 katja.maucec11@gmail.com
303-667-6762

Mechanical

Franklin Tran

blueblaze144@gmail.com
​303-356-3794

Electrical

Joseph Kim

Anachromaly@gmail.com
720-737-9928

Programming

AJ Kumar

akumar4@cherrycreekschools.org
720-296-7969

Outreach

Robert Chambers

epic1152@gmail.com
720-756-1326

Our mentors

Project Manager

Carol Layng
clayng@comcast.net