Area Robotics Contests Bring Record Number of Participants

Each year, TCEA provides its members with the opportunity to explore the impact of robotics. Participating teams of students from elementary and secondary schools design, collaborate, plan, redesign, construct, create, assemble, invent, reinvent, write, present, and compete to see who has developed the smartest robot at area contests across the state. The contest s vary based on strategies that involve speed, accuracy, sensing objects, and light.

Students not only have the opportunity to compete in a prescribed problem contest; there is also an open-ended invention contest. Students use marketing, programming, writing, constructing, and presentation skills to find a solution for a problem of their choice. 

 

This year, more than 1,000 teams of up to four students each are competing in regional events from Nov. 29, 2010 to Jan. 10, 2011, more than double the number that participated last year. First and second place winners, along with wild card winners from each area, will move on to the state contest. These will compete on April 9, 2011 at Angelo State University to determine whose robot rules.