2008 Beyond Botball !
Game Details
- 2008 Game Rules
(version 0.4, last updated 5 Dec 2007 ) - 2008 Game Board (pdf).(version 0.6, last updated 24 Jan 2008 )
- 2008 Game Board (eDrawing) .
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Beyond Botball is a game distributed by KISS Institute for Practical Robotics to encourage ongoing robotics education beyond the high school level.
Botball for Grown up Kids!
College and university educators are encouraged to use the Beyond Botball game spec as a project in their science and engineering courses. Mentors, parents and teachers of Botball teams are encouraged to focus their own creative energies into a solution for Beyond Botball (let the kids build their own robots!). Some examples of how Beyond Botball has been used in college courses can be found in this AAAI Spring Symposium paper.
International Beyond Botball Tournament
We hope that those of you who create a team of robots to play the Beyond Botball game will register for the Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER) and bring your team to the International Beyond Botball Tournament.
Registration for the International Beyond Botball Tournament is part of GCER Registration. All IBBT participants must be registered for GCER, but only one participant per team must pay the Beyond Botball Team fee.
You can read more about the Global Conference on Educational Robotics here.
International Tournament Competitors
The following teams are currently registered for the International Beyond Botball Tournament:
- Desert Robotics - Rancho Mirage, CA
- Impending Doom - Houston, TX
- Lunar Cleaners - Gaithersburg, MD
- Union X- Jackson Heights, NY
- Ivorytower - Norman, OK
- Oh no, not them - Russellville, AR
This Year’s Game
As a Google Lunar X Prize contestant, your rovers are trying to win the bonus prizes for finding water/ice in shadowed craters on the Moon.
Your mission is to make your way into the crater, depositing sponsor markers along the way. Then search along the caves in the bottom for ice. You should then bring the ice and any other interesting artifacts up to your landing site for further analysis. Be on the lookout for possible X Prize competitors trying to get the prize first, and don’t forget about the aliens…
Participation Eligibility
Beyond Botball teams must consist of AT LEAST one team member who has finished high school or its equivalent by January 2008. Team members who are middle or high school aged are required to be on a regular Botball team in order to participate in Beyond Botball.