With over 40 team members, the REC 2025 team spanned across a diverse subset of disciplines and backgrounds! There were 4 key subteams tackling on engineering and design challenges to realize this year's entry.

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This year’s Ride Engineering Competition 2025 team competed at the 2025 Students in Themed Entertainment (SITE) conference at Ohio State University. Our CAPED team’s entry was “Jukebox Joyride” and competed against 27 other collegiate team!

Since October 2024, our team has been working on different ideas and designs to make all the mechanical and control components work together seamlessly.“Jukebox Joyride” is a spinning flat ride that takes riders on a journey through time into a disco dream on a giant record player. With a rotating platform and ride vehicles, riders whirl around to different disco tracks! This year’s ride is complete with robust mechanical mechanisms and control systems. Throughout these past few months, our REC subteams were hard at work designing, researching, prototyping, evaluating, and refining various parts of the ride.

Roi Andre Ramos led this year’s team as our project lead, taking charge of logistics and planning to keep everything on track. This year’s team was split across four different subteams: mechanical, controls, standard adherence, and thematic elements. Fredy Herrarte and Lilyane Stessman led the mechanical subteam to design and manufacture the ride’s shaft, plate, arm, ride vehicle, and other mechanical components. Raegan Fordemwalt led the controls subteam to program and test the ride’s control mechanisms including the control panel and integrating an audio system. Annika Bullock led the standard adherence subteam to ensure the ride design and experience was up to ASTM F2291-24 standards and that all our ride’s documentation was complete and thorough. Valerie Bolon led our theming subteam to conceptualize a story for our ride and craft thematic set elements to fit seamlessly with our ride.

Our team leads and subteam members worked together tirelessly these past few months and we are truly appreciative and thankful of everyone’s time, talent, and dedication to create such an amazing and groovy flat thrill ride! THANK YOU to everyone who helped us get to this point and to all those that supported our amazing CAPED team this year!