May Madness 2005 This year’s game adds another dimension to the engineering challenge. This year’s game includes both an autonomous and a LEGO remote control section of the game. We post this game for your enjoyment. Change the rules as you see fit for your students and interests. Best Regards, Robotics Academy

Orange team starts here! White team starts here! Two teams compete at the same time!

The picture at the left shows half of the balls that sit on the foam board. We purchased our foam board at Kmart. It needed to be cut to size. The drawing below shows the locations of the balls ” 12

1.Layout where the balls will sit. 2.Push the hole in with the round LEGO part 3.Set the ball in place

At the left you see a larger ball sitting on top of a 2” high piece of round PVC Pictured at the right is a robots view of the game board. The foam board sits on top of 6” long 1” diameter PVC.

Sponge ball 3 each color Ping Pong balls 16 each color Soccer goals. Two required - 12 inches high 8 inches wide made of 1 ¼ diameter PVC pipe. Center goal. One required - 12 inches high 8 inches wide made of 1 ¼ diameter PVC pipe Red starts here! White starts here!

Game parts 1.1” PVC to make up the goals 2. Ping Pong balls 3. Foam balls or similar balls for the larger balls. We used large Ping Pong balls because Wallmart did not have any foam balls left, you could also substitute with tennis balls.

PING PONG BALL SCORING

PING-PONG BALL -RED SCORING ZONES 1.CLOSEST GOAL TO HOME 1 point each ball 2.BEHIND OPPOSITE GOAL 2 points each ball 3.FAR GOAL 5 points each ball 4.CENTER GOAL 10 points each ball Orange starts here! White starts here! 1

Robot scoring one point!

PING-PONG BALL -RED SCORING ZONES 1.CLOSEST GOAL TO HOME 1 point each ball 2.BEHIND OPPOSITE GOAL 2 points each ball 3.FAR GOAL 5 points each ball 4.CENTER GOAL 10 points each ball 2 BALLS HAVE TO STAY BEHIND LINES TO SCORE Orange starts here! White starts here!

PING-PONG BALL -RED SCORING ZONES 1.CLOSEST GOAL TO HOME 1 point each ball 2.BEHIND OPPOSITE GOAL 2 points each ball 3.FAR GOAL 5 points each ball 4.CENTER GOAL 10 points each ball Orange starts here! White starts here! 3

PING-PONG BALL -RED SCORING ZONES 1.CLOSEST GOAL TO HOME 1 point each ball 2.BEHIND OPPOSITE GOAL 2 points each ball 3.FAR GOAL 5 points each ball 4.CENTER GOAL 10 points each ball Orange starts here! White starts here! 4

Score!

SPONGE BALL SCORING

SPONGE BALL -RED SCORING ZONES 1.CLOSEST GOAL TO HOME 3 point each ball 2.BEHIND OPPOSITE GOAL 6 points each ball 3.FAR GOAL 10 points each ball 4.CENTER GOAL 20 points each ball Orange starts here! White starts here! 1

SPONGE BALL -RED SCORING ZONES 1.CLOSEST GOAL TO HOME 3 point each ball 2.BEHIND OPPOSITE GOAL 6 points each ball 3.FAR GOAL 10 points each ball 4.CENTER GOAL 20 points each ball 2 BALLS HAVE TO STAY BEHIND LINES TO SCORE Orange starts here! White starts here!

SPONGE BALL -RED SCORING ZONES 1.CLOSEST GOAL TO HOME 3 point each ball 2.BEHIND OPPOSITE GOAL 6 points each ball 3.FAR GOAL 10 points each ball 4.CENTER GOAL 20 points each ball Orange starts here! White starts here! 3

SPONGE BALL -RED SCORING ZONES 1.CLOSEST GOAL TO HOME 3 point each ball 2.BEHIND OPPOSITE GOAL 6 points each ball 3.FAR GOAL 10 points each ball 4.CENTER GOAL 20 points each ball Orange starts here! White starts here! 4

Black tape layout on top of 4*8 game table

Goal of the game Score more points than the other team. Two parts to the game 1.Autonomous section – 15 seconds 2.Remote Control section – 2 minutes Pictured at the left is an example of using a touch sensor to remotely control your LEGO robot.