The WT Woodson Robotics Team will be working on the ION Mini-Urban Challenge in the near future. The challenge is to put a Lego NXT car through the paces of a small city. To quote, "The purpose of this competition is to challenge high school students to design and operate a robotic car built from a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education kit that can accurately navigate through a LEGO® city." We will have a regional competition on March 19-20, 2011 with the national competition on May 21, 2011 in Washington. Not much time to get everything together for the competition. Like BotBall, the ION challenge uses autonomous robots to do the challenge. The team has been working hard on getting used to the LEGO NXT "block" in programming. The NXT-G language is rather inventive, but lacks some things that would make the programming much easier. I am going to put in a word for RobotC with the instructor. I believe that we can change the programming language and get away with it according to the rules. We are not allowed to change the operating system in the "block" to something different, like Linux.
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