March 5, 2007
Oklahoma BOTBALL® Tournament Photos
The Oklahoma BOTBALL® Educational Robotics Tournament was held on March 3, 2007 at the Omniplex Science Museum in Oklahoma City. Twenty-four BOTBALL® teams from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas competed in the event.
The Oklahoma BOTBALL® Tournament was the first tournament of the year for the BOTBALL® Educational Robotics Program - click on the pic for the first look at the bots of 2007!
For the BOTBALL®ers out there who haven’t had a regional workshop yet, don’t worry, the pictures don’t give away the 2007 game’s ‘surprise’ element…
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February 25, 2007
OK BOPD: Third (and final) Deadline Approaching
The third deadline for the BOTBALL® Online Project Documentation is on Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Entries made after 3 pm CST will not be judged as a part of the Development Period.
Development Period Assignments:
- Updated BOTBALL® Project Plan (upload file(s)
- Updated Mechanical System Design Sketches, Pictures, or Models (upload file(s))
- Robot Images (upload file(s))
- Commented Source Code for Each Robot (upload file(s))
- Evolution of Robot Design System (provide written responses)
- Robot Testing (provide written responses)
- Lessons Learned from BOTBALL® (provide written responses)
Good luck during the seeding and double elimination rounds on Saturday! Don’t forget your on-site presentation - for details about the on-site presentation refer to your team CD or Home Base area for more information .
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February 11, 2007
OK BOPD: Second Deadline Approaching
The second deadline for the BOTBALL® Online Project Documentation is on Wednesday, February 14, 2007. Entries made after 3 pm CST will not be judged as a part of the Evaluation Period.
Evaluation Period Assignments:
- Updated BOTBALL® Project Plan (upload file(s)
- Flow Chart of Description of Software (upload file(s))
- Mechanical System Design Sketches, Pictures, or Models (upload file(s))
- Chosen Design Concept (provide written responses)
- Lessons Learned from Simulation (provide written responses)
- Lessons Learned from Prototype (provide written responses)
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February 6, 2007
BOTBALL® in the News - Oklahoma and Greater St. Louis
BOTBALL® articles are continuing to pop up in newspapers all over the nation! If you know of a BOTBALL® article that you’d like to see on the BOTNEWSBlog please email Jenny Grigsby at jgrigsby@kipr.org.
Click here to read an article about the Greater St. Louis Region - BOTBALL®’s 14th regional event!
Click here to visit an article about two teams from the Oklahoma Region - Norman North High School and Whittier Middle School.
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January 21, 2007
OK BOPD: First Deadline Approaching
The first deadline for the BOTBALL® Online Project Documentation is on Wednesday, January 24, 2007. Entries made after 3 pm CST will not be judged as a part of the Conceptual Period.
Conceptual Period Assignments:
- BOTBALL® Project Plan (upload file(s)
- Initial Design Concepts (provide written responses)
- Rejected Design Concept (provide written responses)
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January 17, 2007
OK BOPD: 1st Deadline Extended
OK BOPD: 1st Deadline Changed to Jan. 31, 2007
Baby, it’s cold outside! It has been drawn to our attention that some of the BOTBALL® teams participating in the Oklahoma Regional events have not been able to meet because of the recent ice storms.
KISS Institute has decided to extend the 1st Oklahoma BOTBALL® Online Project Documentation deadline from January 24, 2007 to January 31, 2007. As always, entries made after 3 pm CST will not be judged as part of the Conceptual Period.
If you have questions about the new deadline or the BOTBALL® Online Project Documentation please feel free to contact us. You can also explore the ‘BOTBALL® Tools’ area of the Home Base and the Team CD you received at the workshop. Both contain the Home Base Manual and other useful documents.
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January 8, 2007
1st BOTBALL® Pics of the Year!
The Oklahoma Workshop took place January 5-6, 2007 on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman. The two days spent building, programming, and learning were a lot of fun - not to mention a lot of hard work.
BOTGUY was available to take several photos documenting the events. He even caught a few shots of a certain Texas team leader trying to crash the workshop and of a certain workshop instructor destroying an ice chest…
Click on the pic to view more!
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January 3, 2007
Oklahoma Documentation Judging Period Deadlines
Period 1 Deadline: January 24, 2007
Period 2 Deadline: February 14, 2007
Period 3 Deadline: February 28, 2007
Questions about the BOTBALL® Online Project Documentation (BOPD)? Check out the ‘BOTBALL® Tools’ area on the homebase. It contains information about:
- BOPD: What, Why, and How?
- Activities
- Scoring
- Project Plans (includes examples and templates)
- Acceptable File Formats for Uploads
- Using the FAQ