WKU’s Engineering Honor Society will conduct the 10th annual LEGO Robotics Championship on March 13 at Drakes Creek Middle School.
LEGO Robotics course for March 13 event
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.
The event involves designing, building and operating an autonomous robot built from LEGO Mindstorm kits that can act like a transit bus and navigate the winding path of a “proposed” WKU satellite campus on the moon. Each team will compete two times on the mock lunar surface and once on a NASA test track during the preliminary rounds with the best two 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 Engineering and by a WKU Provost’s Academic Excellence Initiatives award.
For information, contact Kevin Schmaltz via email at kevin.schmaltz@wku.edu.
