April 2008 RoboCupJunior
There were 26 teams with 6 from Canada, the rest from NJ/NY.
All kids have done a wonderful job.
Brief Recap of our experience on the Event Day:
Soccer team:
- Got in semi-final.
- Our algorithm is BY FAR more sophisticated than all others’. However, our bots lack in momentum.
- Comment from one parent (an IT manager), "...
I really want to let you know how
impressed I was with our teams'
robots compared to the others'.
The intensity of your program was
directly reflected in the complexity
of our robots. You should feel very
proud with your clubs'
accomplishments. Your robots rocked!
- Our club kids has already discussed
how to improve the speed of the bot without sacrificing the accuracy.
Four-Eyes 001 - Rescue:
Four-Eyes 002 – Rescue:
- Their batteries were depleted during the 2nd round.
They immediately changed the batteries, and redownloaded
a program. Unfortunately, they downloaded a wrong
version in a rush. So, the bot went completely haywire.
The referee allowed the kids to run it again but score
would not be counted. Well, they quickly redownloaded
the correct one and ran again. It scored the highest in that trial.
Wow! Unfortunately, the score was not counted.
Deal with unexpected changes…
Despite of the fact there were unexpected changes to the
rule for the Rescue Game, FourEyes 1 and 2
took the challenge and modified quickly. Since our code
was nicely modularized, these kids managed to make a rather
significant modification right on the spot. Bravo!!
Some Pictures at the competition.
May 2006
The very first time we attended. This was run by a
regional robotics organization
which is not associated to the Official RoboCup
organization. Most games involved were also quite
different. Although we had children aged from 9 to 14
attended. Although most other teams are Junior or high
school kids, our roboclub teams performed very well.
Everyone had a wonderful and rewarding experience.
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