Roboticon 2010
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Roboticon
Roboticon is a robot building and programming challenge for high school students held at the University of Guelph in the Rozhanski Building room 104 over the March 20th-21st weekend
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The Participants
High school students in teams of four are invited to participate in Roboticon. Each school must have a mentor accompany them to the competition.
The Cost
Roboticon is completely free to attend. The Computing and Information Science Department will loan a single Lego Mindstorms NXT kit per school to teams on a first-come first-serve basis. Meals are provided for both students and mentors.
The Kits
This year the kits that Roboticon will be using will be be Lego Mindstorms NXT kits.
The Programming
Students will need to program their robot. This can be done in Not eXactly C. For information about NXC please visit the NXC section of the wiki. At the challenge teams will need to bring a computer and peripherals to program for challenge 2.
Challenge One
Students are provided with challenge one three months before the competition. This challenge requires students to create a robot and do some basic programming to enable it to complete the task.
Challenge Two
Challenge two is revealed after the completion of challenge one. Students are given approximately one day to complete this challenge. They must build a new robot and program it to complete the task.
Tentative Schedule
DAY 1(Saturday March 20)
9:30 – Registration and practice
11:00 – Registration closes(coming earlier is recommended to practice on our track)
11:45 – Lunch
12:20 – Trial 1 Setup
12:30 – Trial 1
3:20 – Trial 2 Setup
3:30 – Trial 2
4:30 – Challenge 2 revealed
4:45 – Build time begins
5:45 – Dinner
8:00 – Build time over for the night
8:00 – Diversity Night
DAY 2(Sunday March 21)
Room opens – 9:00
Breakfast – 9:15
Challenge 2: Trial 1 Setup – 10:50
Challenge 2: Trial 1 – 11:00
Lunch – 12:00
Trial 2 Setup - 3:20
Trial 2 – 3:30
Roboticon finished – 5:00
Registration
Kit loans and registration will be on a first-come first-served basis.
Contact Information
For more information or to register a team email:
roboticon@socis.ca
