Promoting Robotics Education
KCOHG in partnership SainLabs announces the first annual Robotics Build Challenge

WHAT:
The Kansas City Open Hardware Group invites you to come be a part of our upcoming Robotics Build Challenge! The challenge is open to all agents and backgrounds with the goal of promoting Open Hardware innovation and is geared towards those who are have a passion to learn about robotics.

WHY:
The event will be an opportunity to learn, collaborate, and build great things. KCOHG is proposing a challenge for teams to develop Open Source robots that will be able to overcome a series of physical challenges. ...

WHERE:
SainLabs, 8021 Flint ST.
Lenexa, KS 66214

WHEN:
9 a.m.- CLOSE Saturday July 18th / 9a.m. - 5:00p.m. Sunday July 19th

HOW:
You’ll work in teams of 2-4 builders to make produce a working robot. We'll provide you with a bunch of prototyping and build resources and lots of food to keep your batteries topped off. At the completion of the build process each team's robot will face off against each other in a battle of 6 challenges.

Each challenge has been crafted to help new and experienced builders apply technology principles and engineering concepts to solve real-world problems through a team approach.

The teams will be judged based on their completion of the challenges as well as the technical aspects of the robot itself.

In addition we will have Mentors who've done this kind of thing before to help anyone who isn't sure where to start, or isn't sure how to finish.

At the completion of the event KCOHG will work with the top 3 winning teams to create an Open Source Kit to be posted and distributed for the Open Source community.
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