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Robotic Competition

David Nunez

26 Oct 2003 — 1 min read

I spent my Saturday being a referee (not fun when you make bad calls, incidentally) for a very cool robotic competition for students: Capitol Best.

The contest was non-combative (although there was definitely some bumping and locking arms)... it boiled down to moving balloons around a ring... Balloons.. with robots... without popping...

All teams had an identical kit of materials. It's amazing what these students do with a box of junk. They also had to build a display and write a report of their process. Perfect introduction to engineering: Solve a difficult problem in teams and communicate the design.

There was also an award for most artistic robot. Yea.

That's me in the stripes.

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