On Saturday, March 20, 300 high school students from BC and Washington State gathered in the Burnaby Campus Gym to duke it out in a large-scale robotic competition called Clean Sweep.
Hosted by BCIT’s Mechatronics and Robotics and Mechanical Engineering programs, this, the BC Championship, was the qualifying event for the upcoming 2010 VEX Robotics Competition World Championship in Dallas, Texas.
Using VEX Robotics Design System robots, competing teams used robots to fling bright orange footballs and neon green balls back and forth in heated competition. Teams tried to sweep their area clean while filling their opponent’s territory with the same balls.
After six hours of intense competition, 60 teams were whittled down to just eight. Those eight teams will go on to compete in the World Championship. They include:
Team 2W: B-Bot from Gladstone Secondary in Vancouver
Team 1107B: Gordova from Cambie Secondary in Richmond
Team 705B from Lake Trail in Courtenay
Team 10V: Exothermic Victory from Redmond, WA
Team 10Q: Exothermic Hazard from Redmond, WA
Team 575: Exothermic Haiku from Redmond, WA
Team 705A from Lake Trail in Courtenay
Team 721 from Gladstone Secondary in Vancouver qualified in the programmer and driver challenges
Team 1700B from Moscrop Secondary in Burnaby did very well but was defeated in a hard-fought battle with Lake Trail from Courtenay.
Congratulations to all participants!
a technical point 721 is from Gladstone Vancouver…not Burnaby and they won two different challenges…Programming and Driver…very cool video btw..
I could use one of those robots to pick up toys after my kids at home. When will they commercialize? Hey… BCIT has a commercialization office to help with that…
they are already on the market check http://www.vexrobotics.com/ and you will find the (they are quite pricey)
I am on the Moscrop team and i was competing at that competition ( i know most of those kids)
Well those kids looks like real genius ! I wish I could have learned to build such things when I was younger.
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