RoboCop

RoboCup

MRS JACKIE CHILD

RoboCup Junior Australia is an open platform robotics competition for students of all ages. St Aidan’s team of Year 7 and Year 6 students entered the OnStage division at the Novice Junior Regional RoboCup at Brisbane Boys College in June. The competition is an integration of science, technology, engineering, art and maths (STEAM).

OnStage challenges teams to design, build, and program robots to perform. Our team, Aidan’s Ladies, decided on a pirate theme. Each team is scored on their performance and their technical interview. Aidan’s Ladies created a pirate ship to follow a line using the colour sensor. Ultrasonic on the octopus picked up the ship approaching and moved its eight arms. The ship continued its journey to find the treasure and avoided being hit by a cannon ball. Treasure was found where the cross marked the spot!

Team Aidan’s Ladies (Sophie Morse, Isabella Butler, Isla Johnston and Ava Kneipp) gave an amazing performance and received feedback such as “a polished performance” and “best performance of the day” at RoboCup Junior Australia where they were awarded 1st place.

Recently, Aidan’s Ladies went on to enter RoboCup Junior State Championships at The University of Queensland, where they competed against 34 teams. The team performed well and were commended on their technical journal which was thorough and detailed. The team earned a place in the finals and went on to be awarded 2nd place.