Students battle other robots every day, building and fighting with customized EV3 robots in combat-style challenges.
Students in the Fairfax Collegiate Robotics Combat camp will design, build, and program combat EV3 robots for a variety of challenges, including sumo matches, jousting, and battle royales. They will gain hands-on experience with EV3 programming, learning about input and output options, custom programming blocks, control loops, datawires, and logic. The curriculum also covers essential robotics design principles such as gear ratios, stability, center of gravity, articulation, motorized limbs, and optimal sensor placement. Students will learn to utilize color, ultrasonic, and touch sensors, integrating sensor input with programming for complex robot behaviors. Through daily competitions and engineering challenges, participants will refine their problem-solving, teamwork, and strategic thinking skills, applying measurement and geometry to optimize robot navigation and path planning. The course emphasizes iterative design and testing to improve robot performance and encourages creative solutions to technical problems.
A typical day involves students building and customizing their EV3 robots, learning new programming concepts and design principles, and then testing their creations in various combat-style challenges and competitions.
This camp is ideal for students who enjoy hands-on building, problem-solving, and competitive challenges, and who are interested in developing their programming and engineering skills with robotics.
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