Missed the World Robo Tournament 2009?

Did not managed to take time off for our inaugural World Robo Tournament organized by Robo Academy?

FEAR NOT! The wonderful media crew has put up a couple of cool videos just for you…

Visit www.RoboAcademy.org/WRT for more information

FLL Smart Move mission is out!

The USFIRST website has released the FLL challenge mission for season 2009!

Check out the interactive and website and find out more about the SMART MOVE missions, form up your teams and LET US AL HAVE FUN FUN FUN!

click on the image to check out the missions

Dare to Dream Different?

Recently,

Paul Tingey from New Zealand submitted his video entry for the Microsoft DARE TO DREAM DIFFERENT Challenge.

In this competition, participants are required to create a working prototype of the concept, utilizing a development kit from Microsoft.

Technical Specifications about the Development Kit:

  Microsoft – DTDDC Dev Kit (137.1 KiB, 82 hits)

Video Explanation of [...]

FLL 2010!

USFirst has announced the theme for FLL 2010!

The theme is……………………………………(drum roll please!)

BIOMEDICAL!

Stay tuned to Robo Academy for more updates.

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FLL Smart Move – Playfield!

Over at TheNXTStep,

they have posted updates on this year’s FLL Mission – Smart Move together with photos of the actual playfield setup!

Important date to take note:

3rd September 2009 – International Challenge Mission Kickoff

Photos from NXTasy.org:

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Downloads:

  FLL2010 – Registration Form (583.0 KiB, 240 hits)

  FLL – Smart Move Poster (1.1 MiB, 128 hits)

  FLL – Table Construction [...]

NJRC09 – Team Numbers

The Singapore Science Centre has released the Team numbers for all the groups participating in NJRC 2009.

Check out your team number right here —> NJRC09 – Team Number

Or you can download a copy:

  NJRC 2009 – Team Number (645.2 KiB, 285 hits)

NJRC09 – Challenge Booklet 11Aug

There’s an updated challenge booklet from The Singapore Science Centre dated 11 August 2009.

However, a comparison test reveals that none of the content were edited… (maybe the illustrations are different)

You can grab a copy right here!

  NJRC 2009 – Challenge Booklet(11Aug) (1.1 MiB, 202 hits)

Google Lunar X Prize

ABOUT THE GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE

The $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is an unprecedented international competition that challenges and inspires engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. The $30 million prize purse [...]

NJRC09 – MayFlower Secondary

Updates!

We have updated the NJRC 2009 Secondary video page to include new designs from a Taiwan team as well as the works of the students from Mayflower Secondary School.

Check them out at http://roboacademy.org/njrc/resources/sec-video/

NJRC09 – Rules updated

The Singapore Science Centre has released another update for the Challenge Booklet

The latest copy is dated 24 July 2009

  NJRC 2009 – Challenge Booklet(24July) (1.1 MiB, 80 hits)

Changes in the 24th July Challenge Booklet

A) Rules - Page 11

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• There is no border wall, the base colour is white and the black lines are

18mm wide.

• The internal [...]