The project culminates in a fast paces tournament where robots face off in regional competitions. SME conducts this annual international competition which provides individual students and teams from middle schools, high schools, community colleges and universities an opportunity to demonstrate their application of classroom knowledge to real-world activities as they participated in a variety of contest categories. High School Botball is a high tech game that's high energy. Botball kicks off with a 3-day teacher tutorial where educators learn the basics of robotics. Plus, the year's new game rules are announced.
Students then have about six weeks to create their robot.
The project culminates in a fast paces tournament where robots face off in regional competitions. Teaming up with engineers from businesses and universities, students get a hands-on, inside look at the engineering profession. With only six weeks, all jobs are critical path. SME conducts this annual international competition which provides individual students and teams from middle schools, high schools, community colleges and universities an opportunity to demonstrate their application of classroom knowledge to real-world activities as they participated in a variety of contest categories. College Mobot is designed to allow the participants to explore some of the main technical aspects involved in building an autonomous robot.