Previous Competitions

VEX Round Up Competition- April 2, 2011

April 2, 2011 drove us to California State University, Northridge, to the inaugural California VEX Collegiate Championship. We were invited to compete against high school, college and university teams on a 12’ x 12’ square field. Two robots with VEX parts were designed as allies to defeat the opponents in matches. The matches consisted of a twenty-second autonomous period followed by two minutes of driver-controlled play. Game rules proposed scoring tubes upon goalposts, owning goalposts, low hanging or high hanging from the ladder, and a bonus awarded to the team that received the most total points at the end of the Autonomous Period. This event permitted us to test robot designs, game strategies, driving skills, and competing practice.

POE Design Competition- May 7, 2011

At the Cal Poly Pomona campus, we competed among high school and college teams using Fischertechnik parts. We were challenge with creating a machine that dropped a ping pong ball in a white styrofoam cup that had an unfixed position. Every match meant a new position, since the judges were given the task of randomly placing the cup on the black surface. Strategically utilizing infrared sensors on the machine, making adjustments during the competition to the programming, and fixing the hardware helped in locating the position of the cup. And win 2^nd and 3^rd place in the group of community college teams that competed for 1^st through 3^rd place.