User:Trsumo/ThundeRatz

ThundeRatz is a competitive robotics team from Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo or Poli-USP). Since its foundation in 2001, the team is located in the Mechanical, Mechatronic and Naval Engineering building of the school.

The team participates in several robotics competitions such as Robot combat, Robot-sumo, Line follower and RoboCup like soccer robot competitions. ThundeRatz is ranked at second place in the RoboCore competition system ranking. The team has also participated in several international competitions, such as RoboGames, All Japan Robot-Sumo Tournament and China's Fighting My Bots (FMB).

The team is formed mainly by members of engineering courses, but it also has members who are undergraduate students, students from other schools from USP and even from other institutions. In the team, members have the opportunity to have a closer contact with engineering, which encompasses technical knowledge through the manipulation of high technology, as well as the management of members, developing team spirit, the concept of leadership and learning to solve problems.