RoboFesta Milton
Keynes
Finals of the competition were held on Thursday 11 July 2002 at the
Open University, Kents Hill campus (opposite Walton Hall campus). A results service for
RoboFesta-UK challenges (including the RoboFEsta-MK event) has been
established at http://robots.open.ac.uk
Working under the auspices of RoboFesta Milton Keynes, members
of the Open University (http://robofesta.open.ac.uk),
Countec and the SETPOINT for Milton
Keynes, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire (http://www.mobstem.org.uk/) have just run two robot competitions for several local
schools.
The competitions were based on the following
RoboCup Junior events (a background document on RoboCup Junior is available in
MS Word
or pdf format):
The finals of the competition were held on Thursday 11 July 2002 at the
Kents Hill campus (opposite the Open University campus at Walton Hall).
The following Milton Keynes schools were involved in the
competition:
Competition Related websites
There are several excellent resources that can be used by entrants in the RoboCup Junior competitions:
We also provided some hints sheets to support the robot football competition:
- General hints on Robolab programming (download as an
MS Word
or a pdf
document).
- General hints on programming RoboCup Junior robot football players (download as an
MS Word
or a pdf
document).
Robolab Resources
As well as the excellent help facilities offered form within
Robolab itself, the following sites are also useful:
Information for Teachers
As well as being a fun event, the competitions we ran can
be used as an integrating theme across many areas of the STEM
curricula. You may find the following resources infprmative for robot challenges used for this purpose (please
email us if you have any links you would like us to add):
Official Lego Websites
Useful Organisations
This RoboFesta Milton Keynes event was brought to you by:
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