A Naperville lab built around one competition
We coach students from their first robot to the World Robot Olympiad world stage. In 2026 our teams represented the United States internationally, and we ran a sanctioned national qualifier ourselves.
Unit 001, 1315 Macom Drive, White Eagle Center, Naperville, IL 60564
We do not just coach teams. We run the competition.
In August 2026 Launchpad Robo Lab was awarded the rights by the US Engineering League, the national organizer of World Robot Olympiad competition in the United States, to host a sanctioned national qualifier. We ran the WRO Chicago Open Qualifier 2026 end to end at the University of Illinois Chicago: venue, officiating, scoring and awards. The opening ceremony was attended by a state senator, a Chicago alderman and the head of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the UIC College of Engineering.
Running an event teaches you things coaching alone does not. We have seen what separates a team that places from a team that does not, from the scoring table rather than from the stands.
Who teaches your child
Both of us coach. Every program is built and led by us, and we write the curriculum that anyone else delivers.
Kshitij Sharma
Founder and Head Coach
An award winning AI and automation consulting leader with an electronics engineering background. A US Engineering League Event Organizer Affiliate, and a judge at the World Robot Olympiad International Final. He has coached, competed and judged at World Robot Olympiad events internationally, and has coached teams to national podium finishes and to international competition.
Amrutaa Sharrma
Founder and Operations Head
An engineer and MBA who leads competition strategy, operations and the research behind our curriculum. She ran floor operations for a sanctioned national qualifier, and she is the reason a season at Launchpad runs to a plan rather than to enthusiasm.
How we work
Teams are two or three students. Nobody hides at the back, and nobody does all the work while the others watch.
Students build and program the robot. We coach, review code and ask hard questions. We do not hand a team a finished design, because a judge can tell in about ninety seconds and so can your child.
We place every student ourselves. Age and previous experience tell us part of the story, and the rest is a conversation. You do not have to work it out from a web page.
We will tell you when something is not working. Sometimes that means a different program, and occasionally it means not yet. We would rather say so than take your money for a year that goes nowhere.
The lab
We are at Unit 001, 1315 Macom Drive, in the White Eagle Center in Naperville. Competition surfaces, robots and laptops all live here, so there is nothing for a family to buy and nothing to store at home.
If you want to see it before you decide anything, come and look. That is what the assessment is for, and it costs nothing.
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Launchpad Robo Lab is a US Engineering League Event Organizer Affiliate. Attendance by elected officials at our events is not an endorsement of our programs.