Students voted to play robot soccer and designed and coded robots, a field with automation, and specialized rules for this sport. While the robots are remote controlled, they require coding to meet the rules of the game.
Teams consist of 2 robots - it is a free design challenge with a few restrictions. Each robot must have a functional claw, may not exceed 12x12x12 inches in size, and must have a bumper sensor somewhere on the chassis. When this sensor is bumped by another player it should be programmed to open the claw, turn the touch LED red, stop the motors and disable the controller for 3 seconds.
Students also designed the size, shape, and layout of the playing field. They created automated goals and an automated ball drop robot to make the throw ins/game starts as fair as possible.
Students compete using a double elimination bracket system where seeds are drawn by a random number pull.