What Bots IQ is
After the TV series “BattleBots” became a hit, the producers created Bots IQ. It focuses on teaching the youth of America important skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through a fun hands-on experience. The corporation targets students from middle school and onward. Students benefit immensely from this course by becoming critical thinkers and by being able to learn while having fun and creating something.
After the TV series “BattleBots” became a hit, the producers created Bots IQ. It focuses on teaching the youth of America important skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through a fun hands-on experience. The corporation targets students from middle school and onward. Students benefit immensely from this course by becoming critical thinkers and by being able to learn while having fun and creating something.
Bots IQ is separated into three main competitions, the first being the task oriented or table top competition. Here, students develop their skills and are forced to build a robot that can be maneuvered in a way where it can complete a mission. The second variation is the well known battle bots scenario where students build robots that are put the test of endurance, strength, and agility. Here, the creations of the students have compete in head to head combat with other robots to see which is the better design, build, and driver. The third completion type is the Grande Challenge IQ where robots are made to move through obstacles and other such challenges autonomously. Bots IQ is an innovated curriculum centered on teaching young people to be well rounded critical thinkers that are engineering savvy.
My Part in Bots IQ
My team, the Mechanical Misfits, took part in the Bots IQ national competition held on Mare Island in California. The competition included professional battle bots league, where robots weighed 220 pounds. High schools participated in the 120 pound battles as well as the 15 pound ones. The other competition held was the task oriented, also known as the table top, competition; we participated in this category.
My team, the Mechanical Misfits, took part in the Bots IQ national competition held on Mare Island in California. The competition included professional battle bots league, where robots weighed 220 pounds. High schools participated in the 120 pound battles as well as the 15 pound ones. The other competition held was the task oriented, also known as the table top, competition; we participated in this category.
Our task consisted of picking up ping pong balls and shooting them into a basket. It was staged in a round robin format with two teams competing at a time. Each team had its loading station where the human player could pick up balls that were in their square (loading station) and place them in the robot’s shooting or dumping mechanism. Our robot, Bat Bot, used a paint roller, a rubber band, and a motor to sweep in balls like a vacuum would. It also contained a dumper fashioned out of a metal plate that like a draw bridge would be lowered over the basket and drop the balls in, a point a piece. The teams also each had a different color—either red or white—and would only get points if your color ball was thrown in.
Meet Bat Bot:
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