Greetings,
I am currently in charge of a Robotics competition that is held annually at the University I work at. This is the first time that I am going to be completely involved with it. So I looking for Ideas that would be fun and exciting. Our target demographic for this competition is 15~16 year old kids.
In the past we mostly have been using the Lego Mindstorms NXT and EV3 robots to do Sumo wrestling.
But this year we want to kick up a notch and actually get the kids to learn some real programming and engineering,
Curently I am looking into what first robotics are doing: http://www.usfirst.org/
but some of those competitions really don't look as exciting.
Any Ideas or Suggestions would be of help.
that would be really awesome, but i am afraid its beyond their scope of understanding at the moment.
my background is in CS btw.
Here is more or less what has been brainstormed
OMG yes I am in robotics m8, glad to know other people in the community are into it as well.
Try to get them to build a robot that can build other robots (in LEGO per se). That'd be crazy neat.
I don't know if you want to consider this, as this is an ongoing sport (almost), but I am currently on a VEX robotics team for middle/high schoolers. It is an amazing experience, you get exposed to so many different niches of engineering. I am the programmer for our team. My friend's dad started getting everything organized for it while my friend was asking around for members.
This years challenge is VEX Skyrise, where you need to build a robot that fits in an 18 inch cube, and stack pegs and cubes on to posts of various heights.
I will admit, Skyrise is not as fun as last year's competition, but it still is a great thing to be a part of.
