2007 Beyond Botball Challenge
Beyond Botball is a game distributed by KISS Institute for Practical Robotics to encourage ongoing robotics education beyond the high school level.
Botball for Grown up Kids!
College and university educators are encouraged to use the Beyond Botball game spec as a project in their science and engineering courses. Mentors, parents and teachers of Botball teams are encouraged to focus their own creative energies into a solution for Beyond Botball (let the kids build their own robots!). Some examples of how Beyond Botball has been used in college courses can be found in this AAAI Spring Symposium paper.
We hope that those of you who create a team of robots to play Beyond Botball will bring them to the National Conference on Educational Robotics (NCER) and participate in the International Beyond Botball Tournament. Registration for Beyond Botball at NCER will be available soon. You can read more about the National Conference on Educational Robotics here.
This Year’s Game
The game is played on a 4 foot x 8 foot board. Your robot competes by using robot design and strategy to move objects into scoring position in a challenging robot face-off. Following robot guidelines, Beyond Botball participants build robots using any building materials, processors, and sensors they feel serve the objective of the game. The competition will take place at the 2007 National Conference on Educational Robotics in Honolulu, HI on July 10-13.
The National Conference on Educational Robotics gives students, teachers, and robotics professionals the chance to show their work on the playing field as well as share their ideas and give presentations in various breakout sessions. All papers presented will be published in the 2007 NCER Conference Proceedings. Cost for participation in the Beyond Botball competition at NCER includes an individual registration fee for the National Conference on Educational Robotics plus a $25 team entry fee.
If you would like to receive updates on the Beyond Botball Challenge, please click here to register and receive newsletters related to this competition.
Participation Eligibility
Beyond Botball teams must consist of AT LEAST one team member who has finished high school or its equivalent by January 2007. Team members who are middle or high school aged are required to be on a regular Botball team in order to participate on a Beyond Botball team.
10 Registered Beyond Botball Teams
- Botnicks - TX
- Cheap Robots Are Possible - MD
- Earl’s Garage - HI
- Fishtank Assassin - IL
- Kai AhHee - HI
- OU Robotics Club - OK
- Return of Pins and Needles - MD
- Team Linda - CA
- Team Scientas - FL
- The Ron M@STER - Japan