Dear Bloggers,

Last week, 4 teams from Gordon East Public School competed in the NSW State Robocup Competition.  The event spanned two days and was at the University of NSW. There were 45 Primary School entries from around the state and 8 proceeded to the finals.  Two of our teams: ‘Simply Amazing’ and ‘Dance Bots’ were finalists.

Here is a video of our teams. Unfortunately my video footage of ‘Simply Amazing’ did not work…I am so sorry about this.

Let me introduce our teams.

The ‘Disco Dancers’ had well dressed dancers spinning on a special disc designed to sit on their robots’ third motors.

The team encountered some difficulties when they were caught in a torrential rainstorm when travelling home from school and their props were ruined.   They showed great resilience, team work and tenacity as they rebuilt the items.

‘Nanobots’ had a pirate themed performance with rocking boats, shining silver swords and dramatic battles at sea.

‘Simply Amazing’ had three robots, two carried out synchronised dancing while the third precariously circled around a small centre stage.

‘Dance Bots’ had a dance off between two bots with a talking referee.

Here is a close up of the ref.

The teams were judged on their robot performances and interview.  Please see the marking guidelines below.

 

Here is what some of our wonderful teams members had to say:

‘I thought that RoboCup was hard but I enjoyed it and would definitely do it again’……Jack

‘I loved the experience of writing a journal. I also liked how you got to see how other people’s robot went and got inspiration from them. I also really liked how I could learn what I could improve on in the competition’…….Risa

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