Roboticon is an event that provides high school students with the opportunity for practical application and demonstration of math, programming and engineering skills, as well as promoting teamwork and sportsmanship, while using robotics equipment and cutting-edge technology. 

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Roboticon is an annual event run in partnership with the University of Guelph’s School of Computer Science and the Society of Computing and Information Science. It is an exciting opportunity for high school students to learn more about the field of Computer Science by designing and building LEGO® Mindstorms robots to complete a series of challenges designed by our undergraduate students. We are proud to announce this year will be our 15th Roboticon challenge! 

Each year at registration, we unfortunately have to turn away schools because we have run out of Roboticon kits to loan to schools. This project is meant to assist in raising the necessary funds to keep Roboticon a free event and to allow for more student participants.

GOALS

The goal of Roboticon is to help further student’s education by introducing them to cutting-edge technology, while igniting the enthusiasm of students interested in computing and engineering technology. With this crowdfunding effort, we hope to fund three new LEGO® Mindstorms EV3 kits costing $500 each, bringing our overall fundraising goal to $1500.

This year, we are pleased to announce that the Dean of the College of Physical and Engineering Science will match any funds that have been donated!

YOUR IMPACT

Your donation will assist in keeping Roboticon a free event and allow more high school students to participate. Roboticon proves an innovative way of teaching a wide range of essential skills, while students gain key learning values, such as:

• Develop, build, and test solutions.
• Brainstorm and share ideas.
• Utilize strategic thinking through analysis and design.
• Gain hands-on experience with motors, sensors and peripherals that interact with the computing machine.
• Observe how data can be collected and used in programs to solve problems.

Help us to inspire the next generation of developers, programmers, builders, and creative problem-solvers through cutting-edge robotics technology.

ADDITIONAL LINKS

• For more information on Roboticon please visit http://socis.ca/roboticon/
• Photos from previous competitions
• If you’re interested in participating in Roboticon, please save the date for March 19th and 20th, 2016 at the University of Guelph. Interested schools can register by contacting liaison@socs.uoguelph.ca.
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