We challenge teams of 16 to 18 year-olds to design, build and develop autonomous robots to compete in our annual competition. After announcing the year's game, we give teams six months to engineer their creations. We mentor teams throughout this time, as well as supply them with a kit which provides a framework they can build their robot around. Thanks to our sponsors, we provide this all for free to our teams.
We are a UK based competition, although we've had teams from France and Germany compete in the past.
The main difference with those other competitions is that the teams are able to take part for free, and we even give them a budget to purchase materials. This allows teams from schools who would not usually have the means or opportunity to take part in these sorts of competitions to take part. This year we have around 45 teams entering robots on the day.
SR2017 is now over with a well deserved 1st place win from CATS College Cambridge!
Followed closely by Systemetric (Hills Road College Cambridge) and Collyer's in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. After a close fought final against 3 very strong teams CATS College emerged victorious.
Congratulations and well done to all of the teams!
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 23.5 ms ] threadA comparison with the FLL - FTC - FRC would be welcome. I believe at least FTC and FRC are global events.
The main difference with those other competitions is that the teams are able to take part for free, and we even give them a budget to purchase materials. This allows teams from schools who would not usually have the means or opportunity to take part in these sorts of competitions to take part. This year we have around 45 teams entering robots on the day.
Congratulations and well done to all of the teams!