The Little Robot Tournament That Could
Darcy Schein, Cathryne Stein · 2020
The Botball Educational Robotics Program for middle and high school students is designed to leverage the excitement students feel about robotics and use this to improve skills and understanding of science, programming, and engineering for several different kinds of learners.Botball features autonomous student-created robots in regional tournaments, and caps each season off with a national tournament.This year we grew the national tournament into a full conference designed specifically for students, teachers, families, mentors and professional researchers and engineers interested in contributing to this educational process.Despite obstacles and a learning curve, the results were valuable.