VEX Robotics College Challenge is here!

[Chuck Glick]

I know I will definitely try to get a Drexel University team started up. Taking the info straight to the head of the engineering department!

[talltree357]

Chuck,
You are hopefully gonna have some Philly competition. I am getting my robotics organization at Temple registered, hopefully tomorrow.

[Jason Morrella]

We've received many inquiries in the last two days and wanted to make sure everyone knew the registration is now open for the College Challenge World Championship at www.robotevents.com/college.

We're also pleased to announce that the entry fee for the College Challenge World Championship has been reduced from $750 to only $250 per team thanks to two very generous sponsors and supporters (there will be a more detailed announcement about their support in about a week).

We can't wait to see the final list of registered teams participating in this inaugural event!

[lynca]

I think the VEX college competition rules are going to open up the horizon for robotics competitions in general.

http://www.vexrobotics.com/docs/vex-...e.10132008.pdf

Build a team of 2 robots
1 minute autonomous
Use the VEXnet wireless instead of standard 72Mhz
Use 2 VEX controllers on one robot
2 batteries per one controller, scaled up would be 4 batteries with 2 controllers
4 batteries could roughly control 20 motors/servos per robot

Maybe FRC or FTC can take a few ideas from these College VEX rules

[nuggetsyl]

I would love to see a vex pro league. To allow the people not in college build and compete.