ERMA – The Southern New Jersey (SNJ) Chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Women in Engineering (WIE) is sponsoring the second annual South Jersey Robot Challenge on April 16, 2011, at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum.
The Robot Challenge is a nonprofit project that was initiated to encourage high school students (boys and girls) to become engineers. It is an inexpensive team project designed to engage high school students in an activity that closely resembles the work a graduate engineer would do in the real world. It challenges imagination and develops skills.
The challenge is to build a robot that will “walk” six feet along a path with a minor obstacle. The robots are built from a kit supplied by SNJ WIE. The kit includes all parts needed to build the robot (except a body covering) and the “how-to” manual. Each kit costs $60 – SNJ WIE will supply one free kit to each participating school. Teams of 3-4 students build the robot, keep a detailed log throughout construction, prepare a written report about the experience, make an oral presentation to the judges, and compete with other student teams. The project takes 2 – 4 months based on 3 hours/week of work. The Baltimore chapter of IEEE has been sponsoring a robot challenge for 13 years.
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