“The ideal engineer is a composite … He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.” —Nathan W. Dougherty, American civil engineer The E-Yantra Robotics Competition is India’s biggest PBL (Project Based Learning) robotics competition - hosted by e-Yantra, IIT Bombay. I took part in the 2021-22 edition of the competition, which was coincidentally the 10th edition. Through this post, I'd like to share my experience and the things I learned in 6 months of the competition. A Journey Begins I came to know about the competition in August, 2021 through my friend Hrithik Singla who was the President of Volt, the Electronics Club of School of Engineering, JNU. My initial reaction was to not take part in the contest as I was currently preparing for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). However, the idea of a collabor...