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Robofest is an annual robotics festival and competition designed to promote and support STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology and Math) and Computer Science for students in grades 5 - 12 and college students. Robofest challenges teams of students to design, build, and program autonomous robots to compete in the following various categories:

  • Game Competition - A team of students competes to accomplish robotics missions using fully autonomous robots. Especially Robofest game puts math skills to the test. [Registration begins in December]
  • Exhibition - Each team has complete freedom to show off any creative computer programmed robotics R&D project. [Registration begins in December]
  • Vision Centric Challenge (VCC) - Advanced category for Sr. high school and college students [Registration begins in December]
  • [Registration for North American Championship on May 2nd 2014 will be open in March 2014]
  • RoboParade [Registration is OPEN]
  • (Global Robotic Arts Festival) - Robotic Music, Fashion & Dance, Robotic Painting, and Interactive Kinetic Sculptures [Registration is OPEN]
  • (Unknown Mission Challenge): Mission tasks will be totally unknown until the day of competition [Registration will begin in October]

Any robotics kits are allowed in the construction of robots. Robofest has multiple venues in the US and several other countries.

2013-2014 Schedule (Calendar)

  • Mid Aug. 2013 - RoboParade and GRAF registration begins
  • Sep ~ Oct - RoboParade and GRAF workshops
  • Nov. 23, 2013 - RoboParade and GRAF at Macomb Community College
  • Dec. 2013 - Robofest 2014 Kick-off and team registration begins.
  • Jan ~ Feb, 2014: Technical Workshops
  • Feb 2014: Warm-up competition (Judges Training) at Lawrence Tech
  • March ~ mid April 2014: Qualifying Competitions
  • April 2014: Michigan Regional Championship at Lawrence Tech
  • May 2014: World Championship
  • July 2014: Maker Faire Detroit
  • June-July, 2014: Summer Robot Camps

What's New


Robofest 2012-13 Overview - 5 min. (Other videos)

2013 Sponsors (list)

Sponsorship Form: Fillable PDF

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