2024 Main Page
COMING SEPTEMBER 30! OFFICIAL SEASON RULES AND RELATED DOCUMENTS:
Kick-off Meeting Schedule (Meetings and webinars to announce the 2024 Season Rules)
Robofest hosts a series of online and in person meetings to announce and review the general and category rules. Each meeting will be recorded and uploaded for you to review and share with your teams.
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Kick-off I: Friday, October 6, 2023: 9:00 am ~ 10:30 am – Zoom Only (link)
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Kick-off II: Thursday, November 2, 2023: 7:00pm ~ 8:30pm – Local at LTU and Zoom (link)
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Kick-off III: Saturday, January 13, 2024: 10:00 am ~ 11:30 am – Local at LTU and Zoom (link)
All times are Eastern Time Zone
2024 Category Technical Committees for Rules and Judging:
New for the 2024 season, each category has a technical committee. Each committee will define/design/refine competition rules and members will be involved in judging World Championship events as well as qualifying competitions. A short bio of each committee member is available on the category's web page.
| Game | Exhibition | BottleSumo | RoboArts |
| Elmer Santos (*) | Shannan Palonis (*) | Elmer Santos (*) | Pam Sparks (*) |
| John Arnold | Ben Gonzalez | Chris Parker | Kevin Gallatin |
| Chris Cartwright | Jelani Stowers | Peter Guenther | Erik Rosvold |
| Peter Guenther | David Carbery | David Carbery | Curtis Sharif |
| Wisam Bukaita | Ajay Choudhary | Karthik Devaraj | Nathan Enright |
| CJ Chung | Elmer Santos | CJ Chung | Elmer Santos |
| CJ Chung | CJ Chung | ||
| UMC | RoboMed | RoboParade | Vcc |
| Elmer Santos (*) | Yawen Li (*) | Pam Sparks (*) | Erik Rosvold (*) |
| Curtis Sharif | Choongbae Park | Kevin Gallatin | Tejas Patil |
| Daniel Oliver | Hao Jiang | Katie Bis | Rodrigo Rodriguez |
| Destiny Anyaiwe | Aleksandra Kuzmanov | Daniel Oliver | Emily Trudell |
| Scott Eisele | Andrew Ulaszek | Jennifer Minuado | Nathaniel Johnson |
| CJ Chung | CJ Chung (*) | Elmer Santos | Steven Lowe, Jr. |
| CJ Chung | CJ Chung |
(*) Category Chairperson
2024 SEASON TIMELINE:
| September 30, 2023 | Kickoff General and Category Rules published |
| October 6 | Zoom Kick-off Meeting I |
| November 2 | In-person and Zoom Kick-off Meeting II |
| January 13, 2024 | In-person and Zoom Kickoff III Meeting -- Final (US) Rules published |
| January ~ February | Technical workshops hosted by Robofest Office - Materials posted to eAcademy |
| February ~ April | US and International Qualifiying Events |
| April 15 | Video Qualifier Submission Deadline (US and International) |
| April 19 & 20 | Michigan Invitational Events for Game teams |
| May 9~11, 2024 | Robofest World Championship events at LTU |