RoboPlay Competitions
Early registration deadline: March 8, 2013
Final registration deadline: March 22, 2013
Video submission deadline: April 30, 2013
Date for Challenge Competition & Awards Ceremony: UCD C-STEM Day, May 4, 2013
Mrs. Carmen Wright is a math teacher in the Elkhorn Village Elementary School of the Washington Unified School District. Before attending the two-day training in January 2013 and four-day 2013 C-STEM Winter Robotics Academy, she has not had any computer programming and film making experience. After these six-day professional development, she is able to teach her students in the 8th grade computer programming and robotics. Her school is an under-performing school with the majority of students from economically disadvantaged and underrepresented groups. Despite all barriers, with her dedication and support from the school administrators and hardwork of her students, her team won the 1st place in the 2013 RoboPlay Challenge Competition for middle schools. Her students made the videos with robots on their own and won the Best Choreography and Best Overall Video awards in RoboPlay Video Competition for middle schools. Congratulations to Carmen and her students!
A synopsis of the 2013 UC Davis C-STEM Day on May 4, 2013.
A team with all six graders from the American Canyon Middle School
at the RoboPlay Challenge Competition more videos
RoboPlay Competitions are open-ended design challenges. The goal of the RoboPlay Competitions is to broaden student participation in computing, science, technology, engineering, and math (C-STEM) education with positive youth development for all students. The teamwork involved in the RoboPlay Competitions will engage all students including those who are inclined to pursue careers in the arts or humanities.
2012 RoboPlay Competition
RoboPlay is designed for K-12 students to play with robots while having fun and exploring their creativity in writing, art, music, choreography, design, and film making and at the same time seamlessly learning C-STEM subjects. The necessary robot coordination to match the movement of multiple modules to music requires not only teamwork in designing a well-organized visual performance, but also the math and programming skills to produce the desired actions. The competitions enable students with different interests to explore the basic concepts of C-STEM in conjunction with their artistic and music talents.
The Mobot, a breakthrough educational modular robot developed by Barobo Inc., a UC Davis spin-off company and C-STEM industrial partner will be used for RoboPlay. A single Mobot is a fully functional robot with four degrees of freedom. It can roll, crawl, stand, tumble, etc. In addition the Mobot can also be used as a building block to create a snake, tank, trunk, humanoid, and any system that can be imagined. Each building block is fully programmable, which makes the combined system extremely flexible and versatile. Programming a single Mobot and multiple Mobots can be easily accomplished using a C/C++ interpreter Ch, by students in grades 5-12.
There are two categories for RoboPlay Competitions: RoboPlay Video and RoboPlay Challenge. The RoboPlay Video Competition is completed within the classroom and submitted online. The RoboPlay Challenge Competition is held on UC Davis C-STEM Day. These robot competitions are open-ended design challenges that integrate math and computer programming with music, choreography, and design for practical real-world problem solving. The rules and guidelines for these competitions are provided in detail in Video Competition webpage and Challenge Competition webpage.
More information can be found in the Call For Participation.
The handout for C-STEM Day is now available to view. It has everything but the challenges which will be included on the printed version. The final program for the C-STEM Day includes the challenges.
Competition Schedule
The schedule for RoboPlay Competitions on May 4, 2013 is available HERE.
Team Registration
Registration is available for all three C-STEM Competitions: REGISTER HERE.
Organizer
The UC Davis Center for Integrated Computing and STEM Education (C-STEM)
Co-Organizers
UC Davis Computing and Robotics Outreach Club
UC Davis Integration Engineering Laboratory
Contact
RoboPlay Competitions Coordinators:
- Jay Gohkale, Email: jgokhale(AT)ucdavis(DOT)edu
- Nicole Foust, Email: nafoust(AT)ucdavis(DOT)edu
- Antonia Rodriguez, Corporate Relations, Email: arrodriguez(AT)ucdavis(DOT)edu
RoboPlay Video Coordinators:
- Julien Hoachuck: julien.hoachuck(AT)ucdavis(DOT)edu
- Daniel Genova, Email: ddgenova(AT)ucdavis(DOT)edu
- Andre Vovchuk, Email: vovchukas(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
RoboPlay Challene Coordinators:
- Jay Gohkale, Email: jgokhale(AT)ucdavis(DOT)edu
- Binsen Qian, Email: bqian(AT)ucdavis(DOT)edu
- Philip Erberich, Email: pmerberich(AT)ucdavis(DOT)edu
