RoboTeam rescue

RoboTeam is an after-school competitive robotics club for grades 4 through 8 at the School at Columbia. Each year, 20-35 students compete in RoboCupJunior competitions at the local, regional and, if we qualify, international level. As part of preparing for the RoboCupJunior Rescue competitions, each student maintained a journal of his or her work and ideas, constructed robots with sensors and created elaborate programs designed to control the robots. The students program their small compact robots to search for and rescue "victims" and avoid obstacles within a simulated disaster field that has two floors connect by a ramp. As robots successfully accomplish specific tasks within a discrete time frame, the teams are awarded points.