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The first New York City Regional RoboCupJunior event was held on March 31, 2006 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

 

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In preparation for March 31, 2006, a series of workshops on educational robotics -- building and programming LEGO Mindstorms -- were held in January and February 2006. The workshops were open to any teachers and others who are interested in mentoring teams for the March 31st event. All workshops were free.

Please pre-register, by sending email to Elizabeth Sklar with your name, email address, school, grade level(s) and subject(s) that you teach, and experience with robotics if any (none is required!).

  • Monday December 12, 5-7pm -- Interest Meeting and Mini-Workshop

    location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (Manhattan, between 34th and 35th street), in the Science Center on the 4th floor

    topics:

    • very brief introduction to programming LEGO Mindstorms using RoboLab
    • overview of the RoboCupJunior challenges
    • how to organize an RCJ team

  • Saturday January 7, 10am-6pm -- TECS, Educational Robotics and RoboCupJunior Workshops

    location: Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Flatbush (last stop on the 2 and 5 trains or Avenue H on the Q train), room: 238 New Ingersoll Hall

    topics:

    • TECS Workshop (10am-2pm)
      • Introduction to Programming, in Java
      • Object-Oriented Programming Fundamentals, in Java
      • Inheritance, in Java
    • Educational Robotics Workshop (2pm-6pm)
      participants can choose between programming interfaces: Lejos (Java-based), RoboLab (graphical) and NQC (C-based)
      • Introduction to programming interface
      • Bumper (touch sensor) lab
      • Line following (light sensor) lab
      • RoboCupJunior Rescue lab
      • Relating robotics programming to general programming concepts

  • Sunday February 5, 10am-6pm -- TECS, Educational Robotics and RoboCupJunior Workshops

    location: Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Flatbush (last stop on the 2 and 5 trains or Avenue H on the Q train), room: 238 New Ingersoll Hall

    topics:

    • TECS Workshop (10am-2pm)
      • Introduction to Programming, in Java
      • Advanced Programming, in Java
    • Educational Robotics Workshop (2pm-6pm)
      participants can choose between programming interfaces: Lejos (Java-based), RoboLab (graphical) and NQC (C-based)
      • Introduction to programming interface
      • Bumper (touch sensor) lab
      • Target acquistion (light sensor) lab
      • RoboCupJunior Soccer lab
      • Relating robotics programming to general programming concepts

  • Tuesday February 28, 5pm-7pm -- RoboCupJunior Preparation Workshop

    location: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (Manhattan, between 34th and 35th street), in the Science Center on the 4th floor

    topics:

    • Preparing for RCJ
      • setting up, calibrating and testing
      • challenge rules