Sunday, April 27, 2014

Robotics competition

Who knew?
Yesterday I got an email from my friend autumn alerting us to the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Robotics Competition at the Anaheim convention center. Our soccer games were cancelled for rain so we went.
And we saw the craziness that is a robotics competition with entries from 28 countries! Who knew?!
We watched the final round robin for the high school division.
I was thankful to the young men in front of us for giving a bit of explanation. Otherwise we would have been clueless. 
Apparently, a new challenge is presented annually and robots are built to meet the challenge. And these particular teams had each "battled" over 215 matches to prepare for this championship event. Whew!
There were so many people in atrendance! "Thankfully" they put the matches up in the giant screens so we could see all the robotic action! It was pretty intense and made more so by the announcers who were really playing it up for the LIVE webcast!
What an event!

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