On Friday, my 17 year old and two school mates entered the ITT 2009 Mindstorm Robotics competition. My son’s team entered the “King of the hole” contest. They built and programed a robot to find and drop 15 randomly placed paper cups into a hole in the center of 10 foot round arena, without the robot the robot falling into the hole. Out of 25 teams from 3 different School districts, my son's team took 1st place! Each team got three tries to get the robot to drop the cups in a three minute time limit, they did it every time. No other team even dropped all of the cups!
The team had to build the robot and program its moves. Once started, the robot ran on its own, no remote control. It has 2 light sensors to detect the hole, and two ‘push’ sensors to see if the robot runs into a wall.
My son said, “The other two guys built the robot, but I programmed it.” He was even interviewed for the news. Of course they did not use that footage. But they did use lots of video of his robot.
They had 2 weeks to work on it, and their School, Jordan Academy of Technology, pretty much swept the competition and took top honors.
Monday, April 20, 2009
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3 comments:
If you can get some of the footage, it would be cool to see it.
So very cool. Congrats to Stu! I am sure that it must have been amazing to see.
You've got one smart boy, there... Look out MIT!
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