This year’s Robofest summer camps are preparing for (tentatively) November 18^th 2006’s LTU Thanksgiving RoboParade^TM which may be recorded as the first autonomous Robot Thanksgiving Parade in the human history.

It will be a fun and motivating event to promote cooperation, harmony and creativity. The one day camp will be held at Lawrence Technological University as outlined in the following schedule.

Monday	June 19	9am-3pm	LEGO RCX with RCX code programming	5^th – 9^th grades
Monday	July 10	9am-3pm	LEGO RCX with RCX code or Robolab programming	5^th – 9^th grades
Thursday	July 13	9am-3pm	LEGO RCX with NQC or RCX code	5^th – 12^th grades
Thursday	Aug 24	9am-3pm	LEGO NXT	12 and up	open

Agenda

· Constructing Drive train (robot vehicle)

· Reliable line following algorithms

· Detecting the vehicle in front and stopping

· Re-starting when the vehicle in front is cleared

· Sensing various landmarks and reacting to them accordingly

· Practice parade at the end of the camp

Each team is supposed to bring the following (if not, please let us know in advance. We will prepare for you):

· LEGO RCX (or NXT on Aug 24) brick as well as additional materials for making your RoboParade vehicle and float

· Laptop

· Ideas to show for the parade

Registration fee per team

· $40 + $10 x number of team members (Minimum 1 member, Maximum 4 members per team). If your team brings all the items above, then you will get $10 discount.

· Lunch (pizza and pop, maybe nachos) will be provided.

Any competition is tense, because only a few teams win. This RoboParade^TM is a new format where everyone is really a winner. In order to register for this camp, please send an email to chung@LTU.edu.

last updated 7-25-06