Overview for Botball Competition

The Botball Educational Robotics Program integrates science, technology, engineering, and math with robotics to keep your students on the cutting edge of technology!

The Professional Development Workshop
The Botball Program begins with a 2-day professional development workshop where educators and team leaders learn about current robotics technology and how to implement it into their classroom or community. Through the course of the workshop, participants receive all the information about the current Botball game and the reusable robotics kit and components - They even construct a working demo bot!

The Building Period and Tournament
Following the workshop, students are given about seven weeks to design, build, program a team of mobile, autonomous robots and a web site documenting their process. Participants compete against each other on a 4’ x 8’ playing field in a fast paced, non-destructive regional tournament. The robots are student built and programmed to maneuver on the game board without the need for remote control.

Botball events are currently held in 13 regions across the nation:
* Arkansas
* Florida
* Georgia
* Greater DC area
* Hawaii
* Midwest
* New England
* New York/New Jersey
* Northern California
* Oklahoma
* Pennsylvania
* Southern California
* Texas