Since 2000, RoboChallenge has served hundreds of students on the California Central Coast. Competitions have included Tug O' War, Drag Race, Sumo, Catapult, Line Following, and others.
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MASME Workshop 2008

Resources for the Robotics Workshop presented August 2, 2008 at the MASME Conference in San Ramon.

One-Pager: Summary of Workshop topics .pdf

Draft MESA Robotics Competition Rules:

Robotic Sumo Rules, Senior High 8-1-08 .doc

Robotic Tug O' War Rules, Junior High 8-1-08 .doc

Slideshow: I made the slideshow using Apple's Keynote software (now famous because of Al Gore's Climate Crisis presentations and An Inconvenient Truth). The file for this slideshow is included here, but has been compressed into a .zip file. If you have Keynote on your Mac you should be able to view it:

Robotics Workshop Slideshow, Apple Keynote Version: MASMERoboticsWorkshop.zip 2.5 Mb

I also converted the slideshow into Powerpoint and .pdf formats. These can be downloaded here:

Robotics Workshop Slideshow, Powerpoint Version: MASMERoboticsWorkshop.ppt 25Mb

Robotics Workshop Slideshow, .pdf Version: MASMERoboticsWorkshop.pdf 7Mb

For more information on the Robotics Science Class for 8th Grade Physical Science, using California Science Standards:

http://homepage.mac.com/mrlaurie/roboscience.html

©2006 All Content on this site was created by RoboChallenge Director Luke Laurie: mrlaurie@yahoo.com