High School Comp

by Sarah

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It has been suggested/requested that we put on a robot competition during Engineering Design Expo next semester to engage the visiting High School students in hands-on engineering. To do this, our design team would have to devote a portion of our time to organizing the competition objectives, rules, venue booking, etc. in order to be completely ready by April. Our job in the next few weeks is to determine the feasibility of this.

Possible points to consider:

• Number/range of high schools invited (50 mile radius vs. 500 mile radius and 5-10 schools vs. 50-100 schools)
• Extent of the robot kit (ready-made sumobot kit vs. allowing $_. worth of upgrades)
• Objectives of the competition (fighting robots vs. useful robots)
• Any way to integrate their robot kits/learning to our robot kit (same objectives, functions, etc)?