page_title: World Robot Olympiad
section_title: WRO Football characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: World Robot Olympiad / WRO Categories / WRO Football / WRO Football characteristics
caption_attribution_description: English: Here is where the football teams played for the first place of the World Robot Olympiad at Costa Rica 2017
context_page_description: The World Robot Olympiad is a global robotics competition for young people. The World Robot Olympiad competition uses Lego Mindstorms manufactured by LEGO Education. First held in 2004 in Singapore, it now attracts more than 26,000 teams from more than 65 countries.
  The competition consists of 4 different categories, Regular, College, Open and Soccer and for the Regular and Open categories, it consists of three different age groups: Elementary, Junior High and Senior High. Participants below the age of 13 are considered as Elementary, participants from ages 13 until 16 years old are considered Junior High and participants between 17–19 are considered Senior High. Participants can also compete outside their age group, but they must be younger than the specified age range and must partner up with someone in that age range. For example, a 12-year-old participant can join the Junior High sub-category only if teamed up with someone between 14 and 16.
context_section_description: One age group: 10–19 years old.
  Hardware: Teams need two robots to participate in WRO Football. The controller, motors and sensors used to assemble robots must be from LEGO® MINDSTORMS® sets (NXT or EV3). Only LEGO branded elements may be used to construct the remaining parts of the robot. In addition, teams will need the HiTechnic infrared ball and can use the HiTechnic infrared and compass sensors.
  Software: Only LEGO® RoboLab, NXT and EV3 software are allowed.
  Maximum robot size: Each robot must fit inside an upright 22 cm diameter and 22 cm high cylinder and must not weigh more than 1 kg.
  Assembly: The teams bring their robot completely disassembled. In the first part of the competition they will have 120 minutes to assemble their robots from loose parts without instructions.
  Team: A team consists of 1 coach and 2 or 3 team members.
caption: Football Competition at World Robot Olympiad Costa Rica 2017
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "15360", "Image ImageLength": "2022", "Image Make": "Huawei", "Image Model": "Nexus 6P", "Image Orientation": "0", "Image Software": "Picasa", "Image DateTime": "2017:11:11 08:05:58", "Image ExifOffset": "166", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[9, 58, 5403/200]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[84, 15, 4449/1000]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[14, 2, 42]", "GPS GPSProcessingMethod": "fused", "GPS GPSDate": "2017:11:11", "Image GPSInfo": "330", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "628", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "2273", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2017:11:11 08:05:58", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2017:11:11 08:05:58", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "15360", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2022", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "6f3c546296cdfa980000000000000000"}