The RoboCup Junior NSW 2021
Virtual Competition


The RoboCup Junior competition will be online in Term 4 2021
Registrations close midnight, Friday 3rd December, 2021. Challenges to be uploaded by midnight, Friday 10th December, 2021.

RoboCup Junior NSW Open

The RoboCup Junior NSW Open was to run over two days in August at Holy Cross College, Ryde. Due to lockdown restrictions, we will instead hold a virtual competition.

2021 Virtual Challenges:

  • OnStage Performance - Novice and Experience

  • Rescue Line - Primary, Secondary and Open and Primary/Secondary Standard build

  • Soccer - Technical Award Video

  • Soccer Simulation

The competition is open to all primary and secondary school students. There are no ‘teams per school’ limits.

Rescue, Soccer teams are limited to a maximum of four members. OnStage are allowed five members.

For this competition, teams of 1 will be accepted.

A reminder that a team is made up of two or more members. We would like to encourage everyone to work in a team. Due to the issues surrounding lockdown and Learning from home this rule will be flexible in 2021.

Entry Fee: $20 per team per challenge

Competition Prizes

A trophy will be awarded to each winning team for their school.

RoboCup Junior 1st, 2nd and 3rd place printable certificates will be awarded
for each challenge.

Printable participation certificates
for all students.

Special prize:
1 X Lego Spike Prime kit
To be awarded for creativity, innovation, or outstanding teamwork.

Permission to Publish
All students entering must provide a signed
Permission to Publish form, available here.

Mentors will also need to complete this form

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For further information contact the secretary of RoboCup Junior NSW: pam.grover@det.nsw.edu.au

How to enter

Registrations close midnight, Friday 3rd December, 2021.
All challenges to be uploaded by midnight, Friday 10th December, 2021.
Register here prior to entering. Past year login details will work, or create a new login.
All videos, documents, including Permission to Publish forms, will be submitted online to a link provided after registration.
Winners will announced at a virtual presentation ceremony on Tuesday 14th December, 2021 - 7.30 pm.


Design, build and program a robot or robots to perform to music. This performance can be in the form of a dance in time with the beat of the music or a theatrical presentation that complements the music. Any robots can be used - EV3, Dash, mBot, etc.
For all ages and robots. Two separate divisions:

Rescue Line Virtual Event

For Primary or Secondary Schools, any robot with suitable sensors. Separate awards given to each division:

  • Primary Division: Primary aged students

  • Secondary Division: Any Secondary student with 2 years or less prior experience in RoboCup Junior

  • Open Division: Any student in Secondary with more than 2 years experience in RoboCup Junior

  • Primary/Secondary Standard Build Division: Primary students as well as Secondary aged students with 2 years or less prior experience in RoboCup Junior. This division is most suitable for teams who do not have access to physical robots, as they can simply program to suit their choice of Standard Design, and then submit this to us for running on the courses.

Robots compete by following a winding line on a series of tiles to a designated rescue area. On the way the robot could encounter obstacles or debris that will challenge the most intrepid programmer. After negotiating the randomly selected path, the robot arrives at a green coloured area which indicates a chemical spill. While the clock is still ticking the robot must find the capsule with "the victim" in it before pushing it out of the chemical spill to safety. Time is an important factor.

For Rescue Line details

Submissions will be evaluated as per the rules found here.

The Technical Award Video is a competition that allows students to show off their soccer robots to the RoboCup community in a video format. Allowing those teams that have worked over the year designing, developing, creating and coding their robots to work harmoniously together to get that ball into a goal.

This division will be judged using the Technical Award Judging Rubric, available by clicking here.

Program simulated two-wheeled or three-wheeled robots to play against each other in soccer! Submit programmed Blocks or JavaScript code. Matches will be simulated and recorded after the submission date.

For all ages. Separate awards given to each division:

  • Blocks challenge: Both robots programmed in Blocks code.

  • JavaScript challenge: Both robots programmed using JavaScript.

Soccer Simulation details