LEGO Junior Robotics Competition This Weekend

Neuropol writes "CNN tells us our favorite locking building block company, LEGO, is hosting a Junior Robotics Competition in Atlanta, GA this weekend. The event expects to pit hundreds of grade schoolers ages 9-14 against each other in a 9 task Olympic Style face-off with each teams robot. Twelve year old Taylor offers 'NASA works with a lot of robots and when you build a robot you need to know what goes in it,' says Taylor. 'And when you're working with FIRST LEGO you have to figure that out -- how to set stuff where it needs to go.' While this is too young for most of us to participate in, it's great to see the attention being focused on such a potentially great generation of robotics developers."

Comments

9-14

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

While this is too young for most of us to participate in

9 to 14 years old? I think many here are eligible...

Re:9-14

[jdunn14]

No, no, physical age, not mental.

Re:9-14

[Excen]

Hell, from what I hear, the average member of the 9-14-year-old is getting laid more than your average /.er.

I Legos

[CSMastermind]

The competition is intersting but isn't really anything new we have things like that up in Pittsburgh...

I want to see somebody make a 5 foot tall set of legos, to scale out of normal legos oo... Ahh I love recurrsion

What We Really Need Is A Lego Robot That ...

[rewinn]

... builds other Lego Robots, subject to radio'd requests.

Then we can just ship it to Mars with a big pile of Legos. The Mars Lego Builder would build a Mars Explorer according to blueprints fromt Earth, and send it off to look around. When an unexpected event trashes the Lego Explorer, the Mars Lego Builder constructs another Explorer that allows for the event. Repeat until done.