March 18, 2006- Our next competition will be the third to take place in Guadalupe, CA. At Mary Buren Elementary School.
Dec 10, 2005: Competition at El Camino Junior High. Download the PDF Handout. A RoboChallenge Competition will take place from 12:00 to 4:00 in the El Camino Junior High Cafeteria. Students from around the area will compete in Tug O' War, Sumo, Drag Race, Linefollowing, Streetsweeping, and new VEX Soccer. Contact Luke Laurie for more info: mrlaurie@yahoo.com
RoboChallenge competition at Kunst Junior High was held in Santa Maria, May 21, 2005
RoboChallenge SUMO competition at the Santa Maria Strawberry Festival: Once again, a great competition run by Tino Aleman.
RoboChallenge Guadalupe 4-16-05: A Great event hosted by the Guadalup RoboChallenge teachers.
RoboGames at SFSU 3-25-05 to 3-27-05: A fabulous event featuring Nanosumos and 340 lb Battlebots. I didn't win any competitions, but competed in several events.
4-1-05 Some photos are up from Robogames 2005, which was held at San Francisco State University. There will be a video soon. It was a great gathering of robots and builders of all kinds.
3-22-05 NOTE DATE CHANGE: The second annual RoboChallenge Guadalupe will be our next competition, on Saturday APRIL 16. The rules page has been updated.
2-21-05 The video from the first ever RoboChallenge Lompoc is complete; see it on the movies page.
12/12/04 A new video has beend added to the Movies page. This video demonstrates the Titan robot, which uses four Mindstorms RCX's and a fairly advanced program. Details on the Robolab programming can be found on the Programming page.
12/11/04 The first Lompoc RoboChallenge was a great success. About one Hundred students participated in Tug O' War, Sumo, Triathlon, Line Following, Catapult, and the talent show. Participants received free RoboChallenge T-Shirts, and Medals were awarded to winning groups. Pictures are available in the Picture Gallery.
12-9-04 There have been many updates and revisions to the Programming page, which now has pictures of Robolab programs and downloadable Robolab files for use in RoboChallenge competitions. Also included is a picture diagram of an advanced Robolab program for TITAN, a LEGO robot that uses 4 RCX's.
12-04 We're getting ready for our big competition at Lompoc High School on December 11.
12-04 Several Older videos have been reposted to the Movies Page, also anew video on Compound Gears has been added.
11-15-04 A new video from my English Language Learner Robotics Science class. The video features the students talking about forces and their Tug O' War Robots.
11-12-04 We have three events tentatively scheduled for 2004-2005: December 11 will be the first event hosted by Lompoc high School. The second is scheduled for March 5, in Guadalupe at Mary Buren Elementary School. We'll also try to have a sumo competition in coordination with the Strawberry Festival and Space Day in Santa Maria, later in Spring.
A new video is available from the Robotics Society of America's Robolympics 2004. Mr. Laurie attended and made this video.
Downloadable pdf. Brochure available
October 2004 A new year of RoboChallenge is underway. Students are building Robots in schools from Santa Maria to Santa Paula. Watch for events.
October, 2004 New video added: "RoboRace" Rules for this challenge are on the rules page.
January 17, 2004 Dr. Jason Bardis visited El Camino Junior High to demonstarte his Battlebots. See the pictures and the movie. About 40 people were on hand for the presentation.
12/13/03 RSA Holiday Robot Games was held at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
11/4/03 Videos from the 2003 Final Competition are online: Click here. There are also images available in the gallery.
11/4/03 RoboChallenge is up and running for 2003-2004. RoboChallenge teachers in Guadalupe will be hosting a robotics event. Saturday February 21, 2004 at Mary Buren Elementary. Look for a final competition later in Spring.
9/03 The RoboChallenge DVD for 2003 has been completed. The full length DVD features video and images from events from the 2002-2003 school year, including our Final Competition at UCSB.
5/15/03 There are images and updated information from the Sumo Robotics competition from the Santa Maria Strawberry Festival and Space Day.
5/10/03 RoboChallenge Final Competition, will be at UCSB
Curriculum Page updated- online archive of Robotics lessons at Tufts university, and online archive of Robolab programs.
RoboChallenge Movies can be found here
3/27/03 Space Day and Strawberry Festival in Santa Maria- There will be a Hancock sponsored Sumo Robot competition. See the Materials page for our Sumo Rules. Download Information Here.
2/15/03 Science and Technology Day at UCSB. We had two sessions of a robotics workshop at this event, and so exposed about 100 attendees to Robotics and RoboChallenge.
2/8/03 Informal Robotics Day at El Camino Junior High, Santa Maria. Invitation is here. This day was a lot of fun. We had about 50 people of all ages in attendance. Photos
12/15/02: Mr. Laurie attended the Robotics Society of America's Holiday Robot Games and Expo in San Francisco. There was Sumo and SOZBOTS, and many other robots and exhibits. See the report here.
11/20/02: Major Revisions to the RoboChallenge Site: Changes in all categories:
- Hundreds of pictures in the Gallery
- Download Printable documents from the materials page
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