CONQUEROR OF THE HILL

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CONQUEROR OF THE HILL

• TEANJ
• Annual Applied Physics and Engineering
  Competition for High School Students

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• Each year the competition focuses on designing
  and building a robot made from common household
  items designed to complete a specific task on the
  playing field of a plywood hill.

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YOUR ULTIMATE GOAL

• To Score as many points as possible!!

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To Score

• Bring as many of the twelve plastic balls into
  your scoring zone as you can
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• Hang as many of the nine plastic rings on the
  pegs as you can

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The basic set up.
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The Complete Objective(as stated on the website)

• This years project may be initially loaded with
  up to nine plastic carnival bottle rings that are
  to be delivered to three horizontal pegs sticking
  out of a vertically hung board. The board is
  placed above the center of the top of the
  hill. During the 15 second match the project may
  also retrieve, from a horizontal platform placed
  at the top of the hill, up to twelve plastic
  balls with Velcro HOOK strips, and bring them
  back to a scoring zone on the projects side of
  the hill.
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Every team will use the same list of materials to
construct their projects. The advantage in
winning the competition usually goes to the team
with a sturdy design, ingenious use of materials
and clever scoring strategies both offensive and
defensive.
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• This is a head-to-head competition where two
  teams at a time compete against one another on
  the same hill, incorporating both offensive and
  defensive strategies in the design of their
  robot.

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Materials

• See the Conqueror of the Hill website for a
  complete list of the stuff that you may use
• www.conquerorofthehill.com

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• Projects must be designed only from this specific
  list of materials. No substitutes are allowed. It
  is not necessary to use all of the materials.
  Painting or coloring materials, and adding decals
  are allowed for decorative purposes only. 
• Twenty wooden popsicle sticks up to 3/8"wide x
  6"long x 1/8" thick (Not tongue depressors)
• One mechanical timer/clock (an egg timer or a
  sand hour glass timer would be consistent with
  this description)
• Two paper towel tubes
• Twelve Cds (any size)
• Six round balloons not larger than 10 diameter
  per package description (Only air may be used to
  inflate the balloons)
• Four Cans with or without plastic lids (any size)
  
• Four Plastic 1 liter (or smaller)
  soda/drink/water bottles with caps (bottles may
  not be charged/pressurized)
• Twenty Rubber bands 64 or smaller (no
  substitutions 2 smaller for 1 larger)
• Six Mouse traps (Only Victor Style -- No Sticky
  adhesive or plastic have-a-hearts)
• Two Hacksaw Blade (not longer than 12 long)
• Two 1 gallon size Ziploc type bags or smaller
• One 12 X 24 X1/4 piece of Plywood (any grade
  and luan is allowable)
• One 12 X24 X up to 1/4 thick project foam
  board
• Eight rubber or cork stoppers (or combinations up
  to eight total)
• Three Wire coat hangers (type that a dry cleaners
  would use to hang your cleaned shirts)
• Up to four feet of 1/2 wooden dowel
• Up to four feet of 1/4 wooden dowel

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• Teams consist of 1-3 Madison high school students

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Projects must meet very specific criteria

• The entire project must be able to fit in the
  starting guides prior to release. Pay close
  attention to the maximum dimensions.
• Project must be able to be started by a single
  string.
• Projects cannot exceed a maximum mass.

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Ball Score

• 1 point will be awarded for each ball that
  totally or partially enters the space above
  projects scoring zone. 
• The balls must be visible to the judges without
  having to remove any projects parts from the
  hill.

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Ring Score

• 2 points will be awarded to each ring that
  surrounds a peg.
• The ring may or may not be in contact with the
  project at the end of the 15 second match.
• Surrounds means that the peg must be totally or
  partially within the inner diameter of the ring.
• The ring does not necessarily have to be
  supported by the peg, or even touch the peg

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The Maximum 30!!

• All 9 rings on the pegs
• (2 points each)
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• All 12 balls in your zone
• (1 point each)

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The matches

• Teams will compete in conference matches that
  are made up of two rounds.
• Teams will switch positions on the hill for each
  round.
• The total of each teams match scores will be
  added and the winner of the round will be that
  team that has the highest total match score.

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Its all about the Process!

• Brainstorming
• Sketching
• Gathering materials
• Building
• Testing
• Troubleshooting and Rebuilding
• SCORING!

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• PEMO Due Dates
• PEMO A
• Clearly stated description of objective and
  criteria details, team chosen and journal started
• Wednesday, 12/12/07
• PEMO B
• Initial brainstorming of ideas documented in
  journal, daily log kept in journal
• Monday, 12/17/07
• PEMO C
• Three forms of research, including interview of
  past COH participants, in journal
• Monday, 12/20/07
• PEMO D
• Scale drawing of PEMO with materials clearly
  labeled, full scale acceptable
• Thursday, 1/15/08
• PEMO E
• Construction of PEMO completed and project
  initial testing and troubleshooting written in
  journal
• Friday, 1/11/08
• PEMO F
• Final evaluation of PEMO and journal
• Wednesday, 1/16/08

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Grading Rubric

• How will this robot be graded?
• What should you strive for?

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Drive System

• Clever device utilized, powerful, consistent,
  unique approach to problem, stored power utilized
  in moving project

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Movement to top of hill

• Successful, consistent, high speed, able to
  repeatedly perform task

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Design and Manufacturing of project

• Carefully designed, excellent construction, good
  attention to detail, sturdy

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Effort and Dedication

• Daily effort in school and out to continue
  progress in positive direction, successful
  brainstorming and troubleshooting evidence cited
  in journal and witnessed in school trials

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Specifications Compliance

• Mass under 1.0 kg
• Smaller than maximum dimensions
• Single starting string effective

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Proper material used

• All materials adhere to list given

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Alpha phase project completion

• First approach to project completed and brought
  in on January 11th

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BEGIN TODAY

• Plan your group
• Carefully read through the website
• Write a summary of the specifications