Congratulations to our RoboCup Junior Rescue Teams!

A very rainy Sunday 12 August turned out to be a very good day to be competing inside at the RoboCup Competition held at Selwyn House School. We had four teams competing in the Junior Rescue section, and this was the first experience of robotics and competing at RoboCup for most of the 12 students involved.

During a long, and often stressful day (robots don't always do what you expect them to) these students exhibited excellent behaviour, great team work, and good sportsmanship and they should be proud of their results.

Each Team participated in three two-minute rounds, and three of our teams performed well enough to be invited into the Final round. If teams completed the round with the same points, then the result was decided by who had the fastest time. This meant our NanoBots were pipped at the post by just two seconds. Nail-biting stuff, but they should be proud of their second placing!

Everyone learnt a lot, including the parents who had their children up at a very early hour for the 8:30 am start in Christchurch. It was a real team effort!

We are very grateful to our Mentor, Charles Manning. Charles has travelled long distances on two occasions to guide the teams and help them work out how to solve the programming problems without giving them the answers - he was brilliant!

MindBots

AlphaBots

RoboSquad

NanoBots

View the videos of the best round from each team, plus the NanoBots' second placing round - this is a lot harder than it looks!