February 5, 2021 - Update: Registration now open!
Maine Robotics and the University of Southern Maine will be running an online Robot Track Meet season for 2021.
What we are trying to do:
What we are trying to do:
- Make it possible for individual students with access to robots to participate from home OR school
- Make it possible for individual students without access to robots to participate in several events from home OR school
- Allow school teams who can meet to do so and participate on meet days
- What we are planning on:
- Rather than everything in one day, we are holding individual events on different scheduled days. These events will be spread out over the course of 1 month. This will allow students, parents, and teachers to focus on just one or two events on a particular week and it will allow us to hold the events during afternoon sessions, live on Zoom.
- Each event will be modified to keep in mind the limitations of what we are doing and with the safety of your children in mind. We won't be doing bridge competitions to 180 pounds obviously, and the fastest robot competition is modified to fit in a much smaller space.
- Normally, we'd like to have all of this online by the first of the year, but we've been focused on getting Maine Robotics (the hosting site for the RTMA in Maine) folded into the University of Southern Maine. We thank you for your patience, but check out the new Rules and Description document!
The Robot Track Meets:
Learning into the future!
Overcome Engineering Challenges
Events such as the Slope Climber have students building robots that can navigate up steep slopes! Would you believe the world record is 82.5 degrees!
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Not everything is robotics
Some challenges are done without robots, including the Bridge competition. This bridge is holding 200 pounds of weight and it still didn't collapse!
For 2021 we are spreading the competition out over 4 weeks, with two events each week. This should greatly free up robots that may need to go home with students during the current pandemic. |
Download this years Rule Book
Download the 2021 Robot Track Meet Associations' Official Description and Rule Book now and get your team started!
You can also get it off the "Downloads" page |
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Maine Robotics is done in collaboration with the University of Southern Maine