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Coming Soon Botball 2025!
Dues for 2025
Payable using the following link or QR Code to pay using MySchoolBucks; https://www.myschoolbucks.com/ver2/prdembd?ref=ZZJSEXOSWX0TLBW_ZZ5W6HH79S3TO38
Dues are $100 for the school year.
Checks may be written to WAIS Robotics with your child's name in the memo line.
Supplies for Botball:
Plastic storage container
Screwdriver set
8GB flash drive
Team t-shirt (will order in January)
About Botball
About Botball
The Botball Educational Robotics Program engages middle and high school students in a team-oriented robotics competition. Students use science, engineering, technology, math, and writing skills to design, build, program, and document robots in a hands-on project that reinforces their learning. All robots are autonomous, no remote controls. Students program their robots in C, C++, and/or Python.
Please learn more about Botball on the official site.
Focus for 2024
Focus for 2024
This year's theme focuses on space and the moon.
Competition Board for Spring/Summer 2024
Fundraising
Fundraising
Throughout the year, our members and parents hold a number of fundraising events to help cover the cost of our robots and competitions.
Some of these include demonstrations, as seen here at Kendra Scott (@ City Centre).
Building the Board
Building the Board
Near the start of each school year, a partial build for the year's board is released. The build includes parts lists and schematics to follow. Both students and parents help build the fall board.
The fall virtual competition will use this board.
Fall Virtual Competition
Fall Virtual Competition
Practice run demonstrating the robot scoring points with astronauts, realigning on black lines with light sensors, and grabbing both Botguy and the rock.
Testing and adjusting before the virtual competition begins.
Adjusting code based on scores during the fall virtual competition.
Closing ceremony during the virtual competition.
Final round of the fall virtual tournament:
Academy of Classical Christian Studies vs
Westchester Academy for International Studies.
We took 1st in Seeding, Double Elimination, and Overall.
Board & Game Adjustments
Board & Game Adjustments
Following the fall virtual contest, significant changes are made to the both the scoring and the board itself.
Once released, members review changes to develop new plans and strategies.
Students and parents help make necessary changes to the board for the upcoming spring competition season.
Regional Training
Regional Training
After the adjustments for the main season are announced, all teams have the opportunity to attend a 2-day training offered by Botball.
This year, the training was led by Botball's CEO, Steve Goodgame.
Practice
Practice
Members regularly attend meetings and practices throughout the school year.
All members typically attend once a week in the first few month of the school year.
As competitions approach, practices and meetings become more frequent.
Oklahoma Regional
Oklahoma Regional
This year, our students also traveled to Norman, OK, to compete in the Oklahoma regional tournament.
As a visiting team, we only competed in the seeding and double elimination matches. Presentations were limited to home teams.
Texas Regional
Texas Regional
We've hosted the Texas Regional tournament for the past few years.
Our students help with both setup and cleanup, and parents help with concessions during the competition.
Teams setup their robots, carefully checking positioning of the robots themselves, as well as any servos and game pieces on the mat.
Once ready, the robot is on and ready to start. The robots have light sensors that wait for remote operated light to trigger the start of their programming.
* Not Pictured: The competition also included student presentations and documentation submitted online earlier in the season.
Our students received multiple awards, including one shared award.
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