DC2010 This page is http://dcNU.info Every
spring McC students compete for glory and substantial prizes, running
their robots against competitors and a challenging track. This year's competition day will be Saturday May 22, 2010. The competition starts at noon, and usually runs about 3 hours. It's held at the Ford Engineering Design Center, 2133 Sheridan Rd, Evanston. (map) Teams of students design, build, and program their robots to operate autonomously. Often teams are cross-departmental, and students of all years work together, learning from one another. This year there will be a lot of support provided, so no one should be reluctant to participate for lack of technical expertise. And you can be sure you will gain a lot more in the process. Course credit is available if desired. Prizes are contributed by our corporate sponsors, so we don't know yet how large the prizes will be. DC is run by its participants and other interested students. You can be both a participant and an organizer. In the spirit of transparency you can keep informed and contribute to planning, deliberations and discussion of rules, etc. Announcements of workshops, deadlines, etc are made on the DC email group. To join the email group, send a blank email to designcompetition2010+subscribe@googlegroups.com and then click the confirmation link in the email that arrives shortly. If you subscribe with a gmail address you can edit your email preferences (e.g. one email/day max, etc). Archives of the group will be available to you on the group page, after you subscribe. |