Updated at 8:22 a.m., Friday, April 27, 2007
Robotics students compete tomorrow in 'Botball' event
Advertiser Staff
More than 400 middle and high school students from across Hawai'i will compete Saturday in the 2007 Hawaii Regional Botball Tournament at the Hawaii Convention Center.Botball is an educational robotics program through which students design, build and program two mobile, autonomous robots that work together to score points for a team. The regional competition's "rumbling volcano" 90-second challenge game will involve programming robots to harvest miniature pineapples and compost leaves, place rooftops on houses and clear away lava to prepare their "islands" from impending destruction, according to a news release.
Each Botball team competing in the tournament received robotics equipment, software and game information about seven weeks ago.
The regional tournament includes 37 teams from 36 schools. The National Conference on Educational Robotics, which is expected to include more than 300 Botball teams from United States and other countries, will be held July 10-13 in Honolulu.
