Bsix students enter MIT sponsored tournament in association with NASA and ESA
Bsix A' level Maths and Computing students have entered an MIT sponsored programming tournament in association with NASA and ESA
The SPHERES Challenges are "Zero Robotics" tournaments that are held every Fall to open the world-class research facilities on the International Space Station (ISS) to high-school students. Students will actually write programs at their High School that may control a satellite in space! The goal is to build critical engineering skills for students, such as problem solving, design thought process, operations training, and team work. Ultimately we hope to inspire future scientists and engineers so that they will view working in space as "normal", and will grow up pushing the limits of engineering and space exploration.
BSix – Space Invaders are now ranked 5th out of 180 teams from schools and colleges in Germany, Italy, UK and USA who are competing in the MIT sponsored virtual robotic challenge.
The top nine teams' programs were played in a real robot ground demonstration at MIT BSix Space Invaders ranked 2nd in that part of the tournament. BSix Space Invaders submit their first 3-D simulation on 31st of October.
BSix - Space Invaders and Cougar Robotics were the top teams in the mini round robin, hence played in the final round robins. Cougar Robotics and BSix - Space Invaders tied in the final round robin in terms of total scores and wins in the round. Cougar Robotics was declared the winner because they won the head-to-head match against BSix - Space Invaders.
After the Semi finalists there will be 9 finalists whose programs will compete on real robots on the International Space Station on 20th of December.
Overall BSix are currently ranked 5th in the tournament.
The BSix team submit their first 3D program on 31st October
Watch this space to see how they get on.....
Or visit www.zerorobotics.org |
