 DC2009 photos and a video (by Suelyn Yu) 2009 Winners
 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 16, 2009. 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. First place last year carried an award of $4000. 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 DC2009 email group. To join the email group, send a blank email to dc2009-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 are at http://groups.google.com/group/dc2009 To stay informed about all robotics-relevant opportunities, you will want to subscribe to NUrobots-subsccribe@googlegroups.com This is an announcements-only group; you won't get a a lot of email traffic from it. Robotics Club is involved with DC, but has its own projects as well. All are welcome. You can visit its discussion board at http://groups.google.com/group/RoboticsClub |
