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RoboCup 2013
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Ministry of
Education, Science, Research
and Sport of
The Slovak Republic
Gymnázium,
Alejová 1, Košice
Slovak Society of Electronics
NATIONAL COMPETITION
in building and programming
robots
for primary and secondary schools
RoboCup Junior 2013
K o s i c e
April 5th – 7th 2013
E V E N
T I N F O R M A T I O N
18th annual contest in building and programming
robots
for primary and
secondary schools
Contest
goals:
development of free-time activities, creativity, knowledge, and skills of young
generation in the area of construction and programming of automation and
cybernetics systems and control of technological processes.
Contest organizer: Ministry of Education of
Slovak Republic
Slovak
Society of Electronics
Robotika.SK
Local organizer: Gymnasium Alejová 1,
Košice
Contest director: RNDr.
Jana Plichtová
Organizing committee: RNDr. Jana Plichtová, Miro Kohút,
Head of Jury: Mgr.
Pavel Petrovič, PhD.
Date: April 5th – 7th 2013
Venue: Gymnasium
Alejová 1, Košice
Contest categories: Construction
1.
Building robot from a robotic set (participants bring their own) to solve a
specific task
RoboCup
Junior:
2.
Robot Soccer (A or B)
3.
Robot Rescue (A or B)
4.
Robot Dance
Participants in all categories can come
either from the primary or secondary schools, they will be evaluated
separately. The same age limits as in the international competition have to be
respected.
In the category Construction, the teams will build, program, and debug/test their
robot from their own robot construction set (its type is not limited) so that
the robot will satisfy the requirements of the task specified after the contest
will start.
The scoring will be announced at the
start of the contest and the Jury will take into account the differences of the
construction sets used, if needed.
The
RoboCup Junior categories will be evaluated in two separate age categories:
·
Primary:
teams
in which all the members have up to 14 years included (decisive date of birth
is June 30th, from the July 1st onwards is team
considered as seconday)
·
Secondary:
teams
in which all the members have between 14 to 19 years included (the same decisive
date is applied). Note that including team member older than 19 years is
a violation of international rules.
Competiton will be run according to
international rules (www.robocup.org) with some restrictions/adjustments. Only
change is in the duration of robotic Soccer games. These will last 2 x 5
minutes.
Schedule:
until 12:00 – arrival, on-site registration,
accommodation
12:00
– lunch
13:00 – opening
ceremony
13:30
– start of the category Construction
18:00 – dinner
19:00 –
Construction runs
19:30 –
social or robotic program
Saturday (April 6th) 7:00 – breakfast
8:00 – Soccer A
10:00 – Soccer B,
Rescue
13:00 – lunch
14:00 – Rescue,
Dance
18:00 – dinner
20.00 – final matches and presentations
Sunday (April 7th) 7:00 – breakfast
8:00 – award ceremony
10:00 – departure
The
time schedule is subject to change and any changes will be announced in
advance.
Registration:
Registration
link is provided at the contest organizer website www.skse.sk
The
registration fee for all categories is 0,- €.
The
fee for food and accommodation is 29 €
(39€)* per person, payable by bank transfer to the account in UniCredit Bank,
account number: 6601031002 /1111, include the school ZIP code in the payment
details. IBAN: SK44 1111 0000 0066 0103 1002,
SWIFT (BIC):UNCRSKBX.
Other important information:
Every
participant (or their parents) have to agree with publishing photographic
materials, constrction details of their models, and programs used in their
robots in order to allow other teams to continue and thus foster development of
even better designs, programs, sensors, and technologies.
Every
team should bring their own robotic constrction set for the category
construction or their own robot for the RoboCup categories.
The
number of teams per school is not limited. The number of members in team is not
limited. A team may
participate in multiple categories, however, they should have enough man-power
not to make trouble in the time schedule.
Contest
will be held at Gymnasium Alejová 1, Košice – www.galeje.sk.
Food and accommodation for participants will be provided at the school hostel
on Ostrovský street in Košice
(5min walk).
*The number of accommodated is limited due to hostel
capacity. In case of exceeding number of available spaces at this location,
participans will be offered accommodation at the school hostel on Werfer
street, where the price of the accommodation is higher (39 €/person). Accommodation will be allocated in order of date
and time of the payment to the bank.
The
organizing committee has the right to make modifications in the time schedule
as needed. The local organizers will provide the accommodation, and meals in
the school canteen, the venue, and the contest arenas for the registered
participants. Registration is open until midnight
on April 2nd 2013.
The fee
includes accommodation and food. The travel expenses have to be covered by the
participanting teams themselves.
Shall any material
loss be caused by improper behavior of the participants, they will have to be
refunded. The organizer does not take the responsibility for the personal items
and equipment of the participants.
The
city of Kosice is European capital of culture in 2013. We advise you to take advantage
of the location of the contest. In case of interest, the organizing committee
will prepare excursion tour on Friday/Sunday (based on results of the query
sheet.)