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4th RoboCup Singapore Carnival @ GESS

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For the fourth time, GESS is hosting this colourful interactive event aiming to promote a variety of robotic building and programming activities!

This event aims at promoting a variety of robotic building and programming activities, illustrating the creative aspects of polytechnics and fostering friendships and exchange between like-minded students from various schools in Asia. The concept has been developed in close cooperation with the RoboCup Singapore National Committee.

The Carnival is designed to be a spectacle with some elements of show and competition that introduces students to this field of technical research. The organizing committee will provide Lego-based building materials and programming software for participants (except as noted below).

Who can participate?

Participants can be students from Primary (age 5) to lower Secondary School (age 14) of local as well as international schools from Singapore and abroad. Parents, teachers, friends and family are very welcome as visitors. Participants will be acknowledged by a certificate, outstanding displays, and performances with an award.

The Activities are designed as follows:

The Building Workshop is intended for participants in the Real NXT or EV3 Race. It is a time and a location for teams to build robots that meet the requirements of the challenge that they receive that morning. They will have 2 hours to build. Teams will be provided with a kit and space will be supervised. Students may not use pieces other than those in the kit (regular NXT or EV3 school edition). However, adults are not permitted to coach teams during this time.
The NXT Race is race of home-built robots (Lego NXT/EV3 category and open category). The robots will need to use a sensor to follow a race track all the way from start to finish. The fastest robot wins.
The CoSpace Coding Challenge uses the CoSpace augmented reality to race virtual robots on a given race track. The CoSpace software is required to program the virtual robot. For the race the team code is to be provided on a thumb drive for the official computer.
The RoboMake activity is an opportunity for students (individually and in teams) to display robots of their own design. There are no restrictions on pieces used, programming used, or tasks that the robot can perform. Kits are supplied by students or their sponsoring schools. A small poster should be provided that explains and illustrates the background of the idea and the technology used.
WeDo is a guided workshop for younger students (ages 5 to 8) who would benefit from the WeDo environment. Students will have the opportunity to build various models, based on the existing resources, or models of their own. Students will be provided with the WeDo kits.
CoSpace Rescue follows standard rules of CoSpace Rescue Challenge.
Grand Prix: Teams from The NXT Race and the CoSpace Coding Challenge from Super Teams who race robots on a real and augmented racetrack. The team with the quickest combined time wins.

Food and Drinks

Food and drinks are provided by grade 10 GESS students at reasonable prices, Halal food is available on request, please indicate with registration. The earnings go to school charity projects in India and Cambodia - please be generous. If another charity project from an attending school would like to offer a service, please contact the organising committee as soon as possible to make appropriate arrangements.

Registration

Registration for students and all other guests is open now! Please register by 6.00pm on February 16th.

Location

This year, the venue of the RoboCup Singapore 2017 Carnival @GESS is the IES Hall, next to the Main Campus of the German European School Singapore. Limited Parking is available on the GESS Campus, along the adjacent streets and at the IES.

Credit: Image of German European School Singapore