I very surprised to read this news. There are 1.678 teams participated in this competition..! I think this is really a great competition… 
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Scientific achievement spurred cheers and impromptu dances Saturday for Michigan teens who took first and second places in a national robotics competition in Atlanta, Ga.
“I am so excited. It’s what every robotic team dreams about,” Gabrielle Elser, 18, of Huron Valley Schools in Milford said from Atlanta. Her team will share the prize with Illinois and California alliance members.
In the past, robotics seems just a showman, robotics has now become a popular hobby that many people and also learned a lot in schools.
This robotics news originally published from www.timesunion.com
TROY — Robots took over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Saturday.
More than 240 middle school students, plus dozens of their families and friends, packed the school’s Darrin Communication Center for the FIRST Lego League Tech Valley Challenge, a robotics competition that had the frenzied atmosphere of a high school wrestling tournament.
This news come from Maui, you can visit the original news at www.mauinews.com.
Maui High School senior Devin Tamashiro said it’s just a way to be sure he doesn’t forget what he’s learned in his programming class.
But it’s also a lesson in teamwork, design, engineering and coordination among students with different skill sets to represent their school in an international competition that could take them to a world championship in Dallas in April.
As with most competitions, success can come just from competing well even if you don’t win because the process of learning is its own reward. But there’s also a goal of winning.
The Aspen Creek K-8 Loco Coyote team took home the prestigious Director’s Award from the Monarch High School FIRST Lego League Qualifier Tournament on November 15. The Director’s Award is given to the team with the highest combined score in four categories: robot performance, research project presentation, teamwork, and robot design. The Aspen Creek Loco Coyotes had the second highest score and received another award for their robot’s performance. This was the second year in a row that an Aspen Creek K-8 team won the highest honors at this tournament.
The team consisted of eight Aspen Creek students: Andrew Dewey, Casey Martin and Matt Spatz in eighth grade, Stanley Jones, Ben Krenik and Monro Obenauer in seventh grade and Nikita Kholodny and Jake Mound in sixth grade. Four of this year’s team members were also on the winning team last year, the Aspen Creek Ãœber Duckies. The team was coached by Jason Cole. Jason teaches Applied Technology and Wood Shop at Aspen Creek and teaches Computer Science at Broomfield High School. This was Jason’s second year coaching the team. Jason created an elective course this year at Aspen Creek for middle school students to learn robotics.
Abu Robocon 2008 go away with China’s winning…
It’s time ABU Robocon 2009…
The ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest or ABU ROBOCON is an annual international project organized by the ABU, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union that consists of 118 broadcasters from 53 countries and regions. Young engineers exhibit their creativity and innovative skills at ABU Robocon! Abu Robocon 2009 will held in Tokyo, Japan.
Drawings and Rules (update August 2008) you can download here
