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Contents:
(1)� Thanks to All
Robofest 2006 Participants
(2)� World
Robofest Results Available on Web
(3)�
Robofest Summer Camp
(4)�
LTU Teacher Education Course to Include Lego NXT
(5) �
(6) �Electronic Engineering Help Needed in WA
(7) �Robofest Seeking Site Hosts for
2007 Competition Season
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(1) �Thanks to All Robofest 2006 Participants
Robofest
gives many thanks to all of the coaches, teachers, parents, students,
volunteers, site hosts, and sponsors of Robofest.� Robofest would not be possible without the
support of each of you.� We are proud to
tell you that Robofest 2006 reached 826 students on 230 teams.� Robofest had a record number of overall
participants with 1,875 registered volunteers and participants in our
registration system.� Thank you so much
for your support!� We hope to see all of
you again next year in Robofest 2007!
(2)�
World Robofest Results Available on Web
Results
from the World Robofest Championships and Qualifying Competition Sites are
posted on the home page of the Robofest website at www.robofest.net.� You will find scoring sheets, photo albums, winner
results, sponsors, and Source code of the 1st place winning game teams
at Worlds.� The source codes can be
accessed at the following link:� http://www.robofest.net/2006/wincodes/
We have
just posted the 2006 Robofest Report which is also available on the Robofest
homepage.� Please take a few minutes and
review our report.� Please feel free send
any comments about Robofest or the Annual Report to [email protected].
(3) �Robofest Summer Camp
Robofest
will be offering a one day summer camp for middle school and high school
students.� This year�s Robofest summer
camp is preparing for a (tentatively) November 18th 2006
Thanksgiving RoboParade.� (Which may be recorded as
the first autonomous Robot Thanksgiving Parade in human history!)
It will be a fun and motivating event to promote cooperation, harmony
and creativity.� Attendees to the camp
will need to bring their Lego robot and laptop computer.� The one day camp will be held at
(4) LTU
Teacher Education Course to Include Lego NXT
The class
begins on
(5)
Please
make plans to attend the Midwest Robolab Conference
this August 6-8th in
For more details, please check out the conference website at: http://engr.wichita.edu/robolab/
(6) Electronic
Engineering Help Needed in WA
A high
school teacher in WA would like to get his students more involved in robotics
and he needs some electronic engineering help, for example, building an
H-bridge circuit to control a couple of gear head motors using a basic
stamp. If anyone is interested in, please contact [email protected].
(7) Robofest Seeking Site Hosts for
2007 Competition Season
Robofest is currently seeking site hosts for the
2007 Competition Season.� Qualifying
Competition Sites are needed in March and April of 2007.� Top teams from each site move on to compete
at the World Robofest Championships which will be held on the campus of LTU in Spring/Summer 2007.�
We would like have all 2007 Sites confirmed by
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Lawrence Tech
University Computer Science / Robofest World Headquarters
CJ Chung, Associate
Professor, Robofest Director
Lori Birman, Robofest Coordinator
21000 W. Ten Mile,
Southfield MI 48075
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