Post K12 robot tournaments

[Andrew Schuetze]

Howdy to all,

As a tool to potentially expend the pool of robot team mentors, develop program awareness, and advance interest in robotic systems in general...
the Texas Institute for Educational Robotics is considering starting an adult robot league
Concept is simple in theory, hobbyists, companies, ... could enter robots into a tournament style event with additional skill challenges. This would be akin to a bowling or softball league play. I posted this in the off-season area as it would likely be run in the summer / off-season for most educational robotics events.

I am posting in hopes of starting a dialogue with folks who have done something like this before. I know that NURC is open to anyone and they award trophies for each division. The simplist means of organizing the event would be to replay a current robot game with modified rules.

Please post or get in touch with myself or Sean Kelly (Timeout 42) if you can share some advice or information on how to go about setting something like this up.

APS