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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 categories in two age divisions:

• Game Competition - A team of students competes to accomplish robotics missions using fully autonomous robots. Especially Robofest game puts math skills to the test.
• Exhibition - Each team has complete freedom to show off any creative computer programmed robotics R&D project.
• Vision Centric Robot Challenge (Sr. high school and college students - Associate Event)
• Bottle RoboSumo (aka RoboShove) (Jr and Sr - Associate Event)
  
  
• GRAF (Global Robotic Arts Festival) on Nov 23, 2013 at Macomb Community College Expo Center: RoboParade, Fashion & Dance , and Interactive Kinetic Arts/Sculptures
  
  

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

2012-2013 Schedule (Calendar)

• Nov. 3, 2012 - Bottle RoboSumo North American Championship
• Nov. 17, 2012 - RoboParade at Macomb Community College
• Dec. 5, 2012, 3pm: Robofest 2013 Kick-off; team registration begins. Additional kick-off meetings (tentatively): Dec 7 6:30pm, Dec 15 10am, and Jan 12, 2013 10am
• ~ Dec. 31, 2012 - Call for local qualifying competition site hosts
• Jan ~ Feb, 2013: Technical Workshops
• Feb 23, 2013: Warm-up competition (Judges Training) at Lawrence Tech
• March ~ mid April 2013: Qualifying Competitions
• April 19, 2013: Video Regional Championship Submission Deadline (Exhibition teams only)
• April 27, 2013: Michigan Regional Championship at Lawrence Tech
• May 18, 2013: World Robofest 2013 Championship, Lawrence Tech, Southfield, Michigan
• June-Aug, 2013: Summer Robot Camps

What's New

• NEW!World Robofest 2013 Championship Info
• Online Game and Exhibition Judge Training - Recorded Webinar Link
  
• facebook.com/robofest with official photo albums
  
• 5-16-13, eNewsletter
• 2012 season official videos
• Robofest 2011-12 official annual report (pdf)
• Robofest 2012-2013 year flyer
• Free CMU's RobotC for Robofest Teams!

2013 Sponsors (list)

Sponsorship Form: Fillable PDF

ROBOFEST is a registered trademark of Lawrence Technological University (LTU)