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World Championship Robotic Win for Suffolk Schools
Posted on Saturday, August 23 @ 12:08:17 BST
Topic: Information about RobocupJunior UK
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Two teams from Suffolk schools have returned with three World Championship trophies from the International RoboCup 2008 competition in Suzhou, China. The “Rock ‘n’ Roar” team is from Amberfield School and “St Trinian’s” is made up of pupils from both Amberfield School and Farlingaye High School. The aim of RoboCupJunior is to promote science and technology and to inspire young people to be involved with robotics. The teams were selected to represent the UK at RoboCup 2008 in Suzhou, China by winning regional and national competitions within the UK.
The teams have had to design, build and program autonomous robots that will perform a two-minute dance. The “St Trinian’s” team used as their inspiration the latest St Trinian’s film and designed a life-size humanoid robotic St Trinian’s Head Girl who danced alongside team members together with robotic ducks, computer controlled disco lights and party popper controllers. The “Rock ‘n’ Roar” team, who are all newcomers to RoboCup, based their dance on the music “The Eye of the Tiger”, creating robotic dancing tigers and exotic tropical flowers.
RoboCup is an international competition in which the best robotic teams from across the world compete for the coveted title of “World Champion”. This is the third year running that members of the “St Trinian’s” team have won this competition, which is an outstanding achievement unprecedented by any other UK team. Stephen Cameron, Reader in Computer Science at Oxford University, said “I hope that they get the recognition they deserve for this back home”. The robotic competition gets tougher each year as technology advances and more countries become involved in the competition.
Not only did the “St Trinian’s” team win first place in the Secondary Robotic Dance category but together with the “Rock ‘n’ Roar” team they also won the “Superteam Award” where teams from different continents and with different languages are given the challenge of producing a robotic dance together by re-programming their robots. This is a true test of the engineering skills of all the pupils to work together in a team to produce a new performance within 24 hours.
Dr Hughes, the team’s mentor, says “To win the World Championship title for 3 years running is an outstanding achievement for the “St Trinian’s” team. They have learnt so much about robotics, programming, engineering and teamwork. The challenge is intense when competing against the best teams from countries such as China, Japan, Australia, Germany and Portugal. I am particularly delighted with the success of the “Rock ‘n’ Roar” team. RoboCup is such a huge event it is very daunting to perform on stage being watched by an audience that comprises outstanding robotics engineers from around the world.”
It was an amazing experience for all members of the teams to be in China. The competition was hosted in the Expo Centre in the Suzhou Industrial Park alongside the Suzhou Science and Cultural and Arts Centre. Lizzie Grinnell says “Being part of this competition was an awesome experience that will remain with me for the rest of my life”. Without fail the Chinese people where so kind, helpful and welcoming.
For further details please contact:
Dr Nicky Hughes (ICT teacher Amberfield School).
Team members:
St Trinians (Amberfield School, Ipswich, Suffolk and Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge, Suffolk)
Josie Hughes (16), Lizzie Grinnell (16), Genevieve Hughes (14), Sophie Kennelley (16) and Tris Hughes (16)
Rock ‘n’ Roar (Amberfield School, Ipswich)
Emily-Rose Edgell (13), Abigail Lee (12), Liliuth Chamberlein (12)
RoboCup 2008 Prizes by Team:
St Trinian’s
World Champions, RoboCupJunior Dance (Secondary)
World Champions, RoboCupJunior Superteam Dance (Secondary)
Award for Best Presentation (Secondary Dance)
Rock ‘n’ Roar
World Champions, RoboCupJunior Superteam Dance (Primary)
Websites
Team Blog
RoboCup 2008
Blog by Stephen Cameron, Oxford University
Amberfield School
Farlingaye High School
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