Aidan Mao

Aidan Mao is a Grade 12 student at St. Robert Catholic High School who loves mechanical design, CAD, and building robots that actually work on the field. As captain of FRC Team 7520, a community-run team that requires extra fundraising, logistics, and mentorship, he leads more than thirty students through fast build seasons. He keeps the mechanical and programming groups moving together, manages timelines, and helps turn rough prototypes into reliable machines. He also gained experience on his school’s FTC Team 16488, where building smaller robots taught him valuable skills in iteration, testing, and precision design.

Outside of robotics, Aidan started GalleryBox, a youth-led public art project that aims to install gallery boxes in parks and schools to promote youth art and make creativity part of everyday life in the city. He has taught Steamoji as a camp instructor, and he has also earned his National Lifeguard and First Aid certifications as well as a Transport Canada drone pilot license.

Beyond engineering challenges, he spends time with his violin and experiments with robotic art, blending creativity and technology in playful ways. What excites him most is mechatronics, the chance to bring together mechanics, electronics, and control systems into creations that are not just ideas on paper but working systems in the real world.