Robotics Teams/Competitions for Adults

[jgerstein]

Originally Posted by Allison K

The engineers and alumni from my team have enjoyed the power wheels racing series. Somebody else can probably chime in with more detail as I'm not in charge of that endeavor.

I remember you guys from Detroit!

Power Racing is one of my absolute favorite engineering challenges. My husband (another 1257 mentor) and I have been involved in Power Racing for several years, and have had our own car for two years now. This year, a few students from 1257 joined in the fun by building their own car and racing in New York.

For those not familiar with Power Racing, we have a $500 budget to make a Power Wheels (or equivalent) car go fast, and then we race each other. There is a growing contingent of autonomous cars as well, which are typically smaller and not on the track at the same time as the traditional cars.