the campaign
a rookie year that didn’t play like one
First season, first robot, first competitions — and judges handed Boundless the Innovate Award at both qualifiers on the calendar.
2024-12-21
Merrimack Qualifier #1
Merrimack, NH
RANK 08 · 2-2-1
first event ever. finalist alliance. not bad.
2025-01-11
Derryfield School Qualifier #2
Manchester, NH
RANK 04 · 4-1-0
back-to-back Innovate. the judges noticed a pattern.
2025-02-15
New Hampshire Championship
NHTI · Concord, NH
RANK 22 · 2-3-0
we don’t talk about states…
what season one taught us
build something the judges haven’t seen before.
Two Innovate Awards in a rookie year set the team’s identity: original mechanisms, deliberate engineering, and documentation that tells the story. DECODE turned that identity into wins.
Zenith · revealed 12/21/2024
the rookie machine · zenith
sample-chasing in the deep
Into the Deep was a manipulation game — samples and specimens, baskets and chambers — and Zenith attacked it with a vertical elevator, a custom intake, and more ambition than spare parts.
The mechanisms earned back-to-back Innovate Awards; the control stack took 2nd for the Control Award at the state championship; and the mentor program behind it all won the Compass Award.
The robot never made it out of New Hampshire. The lessons made it all the way to Long Beach.
season media
zenith — the reveal
The robot reveal that started it all: Zenith in full CAD render, cut-metal nameplates and studio lighting, dated 12/21/2024 — the morning of our first-ever competition.
BOUNDLESS FINAL · Zenith robot reveal · Into the Deep 2024–25