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Title: Robot Competitions


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Robot Competitions
  • By Paul Fanone

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Competitions
  • FIRST Robotics
  • Botball Robotics
  • VEX Robotics
  • Best Robotics

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FIRST Robotics
  • Previously known as Canadian Association for
    Student Robotics
  • Established in 2001
  • Targeted towards high school students
  • Originally hosted only in Toronto, expanded to
    take place also in Waterloo
  • Annually takes in over 140 volunteers to run the
    event
  • Won the Yves Landry Technical Career Awareness
    Award for their work

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FIRST Robotics cont
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Botball Robotics
  • Started in 1997 by the KISS Institute for
    Practical Robotics (KIPR)
  • Like FIRST also made for high school students
  • Botball is located in many cities across the USA
  • Contestants are given a kit to work with
  • They must report on their robot with online
    documentation
  • In the kit they receive a Handyboard, Lego RCX,
    XBC and an iRobot Create

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Botball Robotics cont
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VEX Robotics
  • First started in 2005 as a spin off of the FIRST
    competition
  • The difference being the vex competition uses
    more accessible and affordable parts
  • The goal of the competition is to get young
    people more involved with robotics
  • In the first year of the competition there were
    130 teams in 6 regions
  • In 2007 the competition was renamed the FTC

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VEX Robotics cont
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BEST Robotics
  • Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology
  • Est 1993 by Tad Mahler and Steve Marum from Texas
    Instruments
  • In its first year had 14 schools with 221
    students attend
  • From 1995 to now the competition has gone through
    a steady expansion spreading to more than 7
    states

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BEST Robotics cont
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