Ice Storm 200910 School Year

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Ice Storm 2009-10 School Year

• Your missions and tasks for the RCX robotics
  tournament.

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Salt Storage

• Two tables are placed side by side. (eight foot
  walls touching)
• Each table will have a different colored Lego
  ball. (found in Lego kits)
• In the middle of the two eight foot walls the
  teams will share a Salt Storage Station.
  (Pictured below)
• Your task is to deliver the ball to the Salt
  Storage Station. The other team will also have
  the same task.
• Lower level-10 pts, Upper level-25 pts
• The ball starts in the safe zone.
• The board will be scored at the end of the 230.

See deliverables in the R21 yearly rules section.
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Telephone Pole

• Pull the telephone pole out of the ground (its
  holder).
• The pole is located on the 2x4 wall.
• Pull out-30 pts, Pull out and deliver to safe
  zone- 40 pts.

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Retrieve Roof

• Retrieve the Roof from the CCS Roofing Company to
  the safe zone.
• To safe zone- 15 pts.

See Retrievable Objects R22 in the yearly rules
section.
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Fix Roof

• Deliver the retrieved CCS roof to the house for
  15 or 30 pts.
• The house will be against the wall and on the
  blue line.
• To score place the roof from CCS Roofing over the
  red Legos on the house, in such a way, as not to
  see any red for full credit.
• First Picture. 0 points.
• Second picture shows a team has attempted to fix
  the roof and it is covering a portion of the red.
  However, you can see red showing. This scores
  15 points. Partial Credit.
• Third picture scores 30 points. No red.

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Airplane

• De-ice the plane by removing 1 to 4 of the Legos
  on the wing.
• Score points for each piece of ice taken off of
  the wing.
• Remove one-5 pts, two-10 pts, three-15 pts, all
  four-25 pts.
• Youll notice some attached Lego's underneath the
  plane. This will be pushed up against the wood
  walls to help secure the plane.

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Clearing Tree

• Remove only the white tree from the road for 45
  pts by moving the white tree off the black line.
• Do NOT move either of the black trees. If black
  trees are (visually) moved, points will NOT be
  awarded.
• The three trees can be anywhere on the big black
  line and they will be in continuous order. They
  will be aligned by the small lines.
• Thee trees will be rotated at the judges
  discretions.
• Remember the board is scored at the end of the
  run.

Big Black line
Continuous trees, but order may change.
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Snow Plow

• Snow plow is placed on the board.
• Retrieve the plow to safe zone for 15 pts.
• This is the view from the safe zone.

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Telephone Pole Raised

• The telephone pole is connected to the house.
• Raise the pole upright and restore the power to
  the house.
• Raise the pole so it stays upright and is past
  the top of the house for 25 pts.

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Ambulance

• Open the ambulance door for 20 pts.
• To score open the door until it is past the black
  line and only in the white area.

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Medicine delivery

• The medicine starts in the safe zone and will be
  delivered to the house labeled, Medical
  Emergency.
• Score 10 pts if the medicine is touching any part
  outside the house.
• Score 15 pts if the medicine is entirely inside
  the house.
• Medicine is just a 2x4 brick

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Airport- end the robot

• At the end of the 230 run
• If your robot is touching any part of the
  rectangle area labeled Airport you score 15
  pts.
• Your robot doesnt have to be entirely inside the
  rectangle.

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Snow Pile Removed

• Move the snow into the red RCX circle.
• The five snow piles are the penalty items. I.e.
  touch the robot outside of the safe zone and the
  judge will take a snow pile starting with the one
  outside the circle and closest to the safe zone.
  As the robot is touched the judges will work
  their way into the circle. If the judge picks
  up all five snow piles no other penalties are
  accessed. (Teams will just not get the points.)
• Score 5 pts for each snow pile moved to red
  circle (penalty Item) (5 pts)
• Score 2 pts for each snow pile left outside of
  red circle. (penalty Item) (2 pts)

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Rules

• Prepare your teamREAD
• The Rules Page has annual rules and the QA page
  has rules for the Ice Storm contest only.
• The QA changes daily.