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Alex Sirota

@alex.sirota.org

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Nerd from the SF Bay Area. Neurodivergent, disabled, queer. (he/they) WPI '29 FIRST Robotics Competition team 6238 (Popcorn Penguins) alum I use alt-text and so should you.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 14/06/2025

Put the new registration sticker on @josh.sirota.org's car today, and wow the thickness of the stickers really adds up.

A stack of removed registration stickers, thicker than a coin, held in front of a license plate with a 2008 registration sticker showing. A new sticker, waiting to be peeled, is visible in the bottom corner.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 24/04/2025

what a ride it was at FIRST championships. even though we didn't make it to the playoffs, it was amazing to show off what we could do on the global stage. couldn't have asked for a better way to cap off not only the season, but my career as a student in FIRST. (also I got to meet @reeseric.ci irl)

Top-down photo of a table with various buttons and stickers scattered on it. At the top of the frame is a name badge with assorted other accoutrements attached to it, including about 10 ribbons.

A panoramic shot from the bleachers of the championship venue, showing a long line of identical robotics playing fields.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 09/04/2025

My #frc team (6238 Popcorn Penguins) just qualified for the championship for the first time in our 8-year history! I'm so proud of this team and our scrappy little algae bot.

A photo of an FRC robot extending its metal elevator mechanism upward, in preparation to place the piece of PVC pipe it holds on top of the metal structure at right.

A motion-blurred photo of an FRC robot picking up a large teal playground ball. The robot is clear, but everything around it is blurred.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 21/03/2025

New banner! This is my #frc team's (6238 Popcorn Penguins) robot completing a climb. It's hanging from a small piece of truss that's only a few inches off the ground. Photo shot by me, 2025-03-16. CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

A robot with blue bumpers with the number 6238 printed on them hangs above a carpeted floor. The robot is suspended by a blue metal cage-like structure attached at the back.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 31/12/2024

Here's a photo I took! This was taken as an assignment to show texture as an artistic element, but I think it stands well on its own. Shot by me, September 10, 2024. CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. #photography

A photo of a field of dark-red wood chips. A single white feather is in the center, providing contrast while breaking up the chaos of the chips.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 27/10/2024

My entry to this challenge - shot on my Nikon D7000. #Photography #It'sNotEasyBeingGreen

A somewhat tight photo of a turf field with some dead leaves scattered around it. It is a deep brown on the left side and a vivid green on the right, with the colors separated by a firm vertical line in the center. There are tan gravel-like pellets forming an even layer at the base of the blades of fake grass.

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