Online Design Challenge Update

Published on Sunday, March 21 2010 | Written by Michael Lawton

Thanks to everybody who voted for our online design challenge entries!
We finished the first round of voting with the website coming first, the essay coming first, and the video coming second.

The community voting will determine seven of the ten finalists to make the final round of judging. Three additional submissions will be chosen by the VEX Advisory Councils, Innovation First engineers, and representatives of representatives from the presenting sponsors of the VEX Robotics Competition World Championship. The ten finalist submissions will then be scored with a weighted system including the community voting scores, and scores given by the VEX Robotics Advisory Councils and representatives from the presenting sponsors of the VEX Robotics Competition World Championship. The combined scores of the judging panels will determine the 2010 Website Challenge winners.ss_designchal_762x349_2

Online competitions are open for voting

Published on Saturday, March 6 2010 | Written by Michael Lawton

The VEX Robotics online competitions are now open for voting.

Submissions will be showcased on the RobotEvents.com Online Challenge website and will be scored by the viewing community. Submissions will be judged on a 50-point scale.

The community voting will determine seven of the ten finalists to be judged for the Award. Three additional submissions chosen by the VEX Advisory Council and the challenge partners will complete the group of ten finalists that move on to the last round of judging. The ten finalist entries will be scored with a weighted system including the community voting scores, scores given by the VEX Robotics Advisory Council and scores given by representatives from the presenting sponsors of the VEX Robotics Competition World Championship. The combined scores will determine the 2010 Award winner.

Please vote for us!

list_arrowFirst, register here.
list_arrowAfter you have clicked the confirmation link in the email you will have been sent, login to the site.
list_arrowYou will now be able to vote for our entries, which are listed here.

Please give us the highest ratings you think we deserve.

Note: if you have multiple people in you household signed up to vote, the site will say you have already voted and will not allow you to vote again (although technically, you are allowed to). This is so that one person can not vote multiple times. You can, however, create one account at work for yourself, and then get another member of your family to create an account at home.


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Motat Scrimmage

Published on Monday, February 8 2010 | Written by Ethan Allen
Well it was good to see 2921B and C robot do well in the last skirmish. 2921C got into the quarter finals and 2921B got into the semi finals with a good aliance (avondale) and went against another avondale robot and rangitoto collage. the first round was a fair win to rangitoto and avondale. And the second round avondale's (on the 2921B side) robot didn't work due to firmware corruption (default program) but even then it was a close match with 2v1. Over all it was a great scrimmage and good experience. lets hope we do better and bring home the trophy at the NZ nationals.

Ethan

Letter to Sponsors

Published on Tuesday, January 26 2010 | Written by Patrick Walmsley

Thank you everyone, for your support of our team, Free Range Robotics, in our endeavours at the World Championships in Dallas. This competition had some huge excitement. A couple of highlights were our first two games; Each of these games is played by four teams: two blue teams versus two red teams. We are paired up randomly. In both of the first two games our partners were unable to play, so we played alone against two robots and we won both games. This immediately made our standing with everyone rocket up; it really showed the world what New Zealanders and homeschoolers are made of.

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