Team 26532

The Happy Haptic Doctors

Eight middle and high schoolers from along the New Hampshire and Vermont border, assisted by two coaches — all at the same school.

The Happy Haptic Doctors at the NH State Competition
Our goal as a team is to try to make sure that everyone is doing something, and something they want to be doing.

Our team, The Happy Haptic Doctors, is made up of eight middle and high schoolers assisted by two coaches. All of us live along the borders of New Hampshire and Vermont, yet go to the same school. Most of our members attended FLL in 2022–24, and traveled to Houston, TX for FLL World Competition. For high school we decided to attend FTC, and in 2025, we attended te NE FTC Competition, winning first in our division.

Current Roster

Team Members

Kastner Anderson
Kastner Anderson
FLL + FTC · 2023–25

Kastner likes sports and music.

Grayson Lyall
Grayson Lyall
FLL + FTC · 2023–25

Grayson enjoys watching and playing soccer, skiing, and playing piano and trumpet.

Owen Osterberg
Owen Osterberg
FLL + FTC · 2023–25

Owen ski races, likes to mountain bike, plays tennis, and surfs occasionally. He also plays the violin.

Andy Zhang
Andy Zhang
FLL + FTC · 2023–25

Andy enjoys playing hockey, soccer, and playing the saxophone. He also enjoys math competitions and chess.

Ella Zhang
Ella Zhang
FLL + FTC · 2023–25

Ella enjoys playing hockey, soccer, basketball. She also plays the flute, creates art and likes to bike.

Jacob Hannan
Jacob Hannan
FTC · 2024–25

Jacob likes sports and music.

Alan Zhang
Alan Zhang
FTC · 2024–25

Alan likes sports and music.

Elizabeth Anderson
Elizabeth Anderson
FTC · 2024–25

Elizabeth likes sports and music.

FLL Season 2023–24

Alumni

B Swenson
B Swenson
FLL · 2023–24

B likes drawing digitally and traditionally, and running. He's also learning how to animate drawings.

Charlie Devlin
Charlie Devlin
FLL · 2023–24

Charlie enjoys wakeboarding, tae kwon do, mountain biking, lacrosse, soccer, and skiing. He also loves logic puzzles.

Leadership

Coaches

Erich Osterberg
Erich Osterberg
Coach

Erich is an Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth.

Yu Zhang
Yu Zhang
Coach

Yu is a Plasma Process Engineer at Hypertherm.

Behind the Scenes

A day in the life of a Haptic Doctor

The team at work

We work on a variety of tasks

Deciding on our game plan

Building the robot and attachments

Coding

Testing each mission

Get Involved

Different jobs you can do

There is a role for every skill and interest — everyone contributes.

01

Brainstorming

Working out strategy and solutions to the season's challenges together.

02

Building with Legos

Constructing and iterating on the robot and all of its attachments.

03

Coding

Programming the routines the robot runs during each match.

04

Testing Missions

Running every mission and tuning performance before competition day.

05

Outreach

Sharing our passion for STEM and robotics with the community.

06

Website design!

Building and maintaining the HapLink website — like this one.

Building the robot The redesigned robot At the NH State Competition An earlier team