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Unknown Mission Challenge |
Mission tasks will be totally unknown until the day of competition. The goal of this challenge is to provide an opportunity to develop problem solving skills on the fly without any help from adult coaches.
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2025 Official UMC Rules
UMC Rules: (pdf) - Released 1/11/25
UMC will be hosted around the world and during the Robofest World Championship on May 15, 2025. Winners of the Sr. UMC Division at the World Championship will receive an LTU Scholarship certificate.
To Register Your Team for competition, go to
Rules for starting teams, registration and team responsibilities at competitions can be found in the General Rules on the 2025 Main Page.
Each team member must bring the signed Robofest Consent and Release Form on the day of the event if not completed online.
Technical Committee for Challenge Design, Rules, and Judging:
| Member: | Bio: |
| Elmer Santos, Chairperson | Robofest Director, LTU Adjunct Professor of Computer Science |
| Daniel Oliver | Radar Application Calibration Engineer at Bosch working on Advanced Driver Assist Systems. B.S. in Robotics Engineering from LTU; Former Robofest Student Assistant and Judge since 2016 |
| Scott Eisele | Earned a Bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and Master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University, both in the field of Industrial Arts Education. Taught in several school districts in Michigan, retiring in 2020 from the East China School District after 40 years of teaching. Started the first and only robotics team in St. Clair County in 2002 and participated in the FIRST Lego League and Robofest at the middle and high school levels. |
| Curtis Sharif | Sr. Project Engineer for Safety and Restraints Engineering at Nissan who has been involved in robotics educational outreach for over 25 years. Curtis’ interest in robotics was initially sparked by his graduate school research to develop control software for flexible robotics manufacturing workcells, and that interest exploded after beginning his professional career as a Product Engineer at Delphi where he also volunteered as an engineering mentor and coach on the Pontiac Central High School ChiefDelphi robotics team. Curtis has degrees in Mathematics (BS – Morehouse College), Mechanical Engineering (BME, MSME – Georgia Tech), and Biomedical Engineering (MS – Wayne State University). |