Engineering Honor Society's LEGO Robotics Event Saturday

February 18, 2009

Bowling Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University’s Engineering Honor Society will conduct the ninth annual LEGO Robotics Championship on Saturday (Feb. 21).

More than 100 middle school students from Kentucky and Tennessee will participate in the event designed to increase awareness of engineering and the sciences.

The competition begins at 8 a.m. in the WKU Center for Research and Development (located in the old Bowling Green mall at Campbell Lane and Nashville Road).

The event involves designing, building and operating an autonomous robot built from LEGO Mindstorm kits that can navigate twisting paths and find its way through the “skateboard park” to the finish line.  Each team will compete two times during the preliminary rounds with the times combined for a final time score.  The top scoring teams will then compete in a championship round to determine the final team standings.

This is a free competition that provides students an excellent opportunity to apply their classroom knowledge to a realistic and exciting team project. Funding for this event is provided annually by WKU’s Department of Engineering and by a WKU Provost’s Academic Excellence Initiatives award.

All questions concerning the event should be submitted via email to kevin.schmaltz@wku.edu.
               
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For information, contact Kevin Schmaltz at (270) 745-8859.