Robofest VEX Pentathlon

The objective of VEX Pentathlon is to design and program VEX robots that will work autonomously to sense and search for light and objects, navigate different paths, manipulate objects and pull loads.

VEX Pentathlon has the following 5 game categories.

Skeeball: to launch from a distance balls into the buckets for points.
1600 Meter Dash: Robot runs 4 laps counter-clockwise around an oval track
Tug of War: This event would pit one robot against another in a tug of war.
Slam Dunk: To deliver softballs into 24” goal
Bottle bowling: The robot pushes pre-arranged bottles off of a field

Detailed 2007 rules can be downloaded from the web at

http://www.robofest.net/2007/vex5thlon.pdf and rule updates

This competition is organized by Cranbrook Schools, Michigan (http://schools.cranbrook.edu)

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