2012 Maine Robot Track Meet Schedule is here!
- April 28th, 2012 – 9:00 am
Sea Road School – Kennebunk, Maine
- May 5th, 2012 – 9:00 am
Ellsworth Elementary & Middle School - Ellsworth, ME
- May 12th, 2012, 9:00 am
Maranacook Middle School - Oakland, Maine
The Maine Robot Track Meet is designed to be accessible and affordable for all size teams. We believe a team of one should be able to compete as well as a team of 30.
Payments accepted in the form of check, Purchase Order, or online payment.
Team participant Registration on or before 4/6/2012: $35 per person
Team participant Registration after 4/6/2012: $40 per person
Each child receives a t-shirt for the event and all robots that meet a gold standard will receive a ribbon for that event.
Open to all children currently enrolled in grades 3 to 8. Teams must be coached by an adult over 18 who is approved by the school or organization sponsoring the team.
Teams may be of any number of children and each team may compete in one, several, or many the events. However, each team may only enter seven events (once in each of the seven events, or seven robots in one event, or any combination). If you have lots of robots to compete you will need to register more teams from your group, but the cost is the same. Teams may come from ANY group, family, neighborhood, school, or program.
Each team builds robots (or bridge) before coming to the track meet and pits their creations against the creations of other teams Robots may be either the LEGO RCX or LEGO NXT robots.. Full rules and descriptions are posted above in the Official Description.
The Maine Robot Track Meet is designed to evaluate finished products in the form of robot performance. In this respect it is very much like a track meet. Robots may be of any shape or variety as long as they meet the robot rules.
Programming, individual building styles, team work, or other important
aspects are NOT part of the MRTM. All criteria are based on the ability of the robot or construction to perform under specific challenges.
The events:
- The slope climber:
- The table clearing mission:
- The Delivery Mission (NEW Layout):
- The fastest robot:
- The strongest robot (NEW max time):
- The strongest bridge:
- Ping Pong Shot Put:
- Robot Speed Build:
- Steeplechase (NEW):
There will be trophies for each of the 9 events as well as an overall meet champion trophy.
2012MaineRobotTrackMeet-outline This is the all encompassing informational document. Rules, events, and information for the coach and teams all included here!
2012MRTMregistration Use this PDF file to register your team. If you can’t put team member names and information, you still can register your team and best guess to the number of members on your team. Cost per member is based on when you PAY, not when you register. Purchase orders count as paid.
2012MaineRoboticsReleaseForm Each team member and coach must submit (as a package) your release forms. This allows us to take pictures/video and use them on our brochures and website.
SimpleNXTWheelBot Here are the directions for what robot we use in the SPEED BUILD competition.
