FEBRUARY
7-9 Quark Roboficial
BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar
Goa, India
2014 events haven't been announced yet, so check
the website for updates!
www.bits-quark.org/2014
14-16 Motorama Robot Conflict
Harrisburg, PA
Remote-controlled vehicles attempt to destroy
each other.
www.nerc.us
MARCH
8-9 METU Robotics Days
METU Culture & Convention Center, Turkey
Events this year include: Sumo, Mini Sumo,
Minefield, Line Following, Robot Triathalon,
Search and Rescue, and Freestyle.
http://topluluk.odturobotgunleri.org.tr
14-15 AMD Jerry Sanders Creative Design Contest
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
Autonomous and remote-controlled robot compete
in teams on playing fields with ramps, colored
cones, and other elements to score points.
http://jsdc.ec.illinois.edu
16-20 APEC Micromouse Contest
Fort Worth Convention Center, Fort Worth, TX
Small high speed maze-solving robots compete to
find their way through a complex maze in the
shortest possible time.
www.spec-conf.org
20-22 Festival de Robotique
Stade Uniprix, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Events include FIRST LEGO, FRC, FLL, jrFLL, and
Zone01.
http://festivalderobotique.ca
22 Manitoba Robot Games
Tec Voc High School, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Events include Sumo, Mini Sumo, Mini Tractor Pull,
Super Scramble, Line Following, and, for the kids,
Robo-Critters.
www.scmb.mb.ca
29-30 RobotChallenge
Vienna, Austria
Events include Sumo, Mini Sumo, Micro Sumo,
Parallel Slalom, and Enhanced Slalom.
www.robotchallenge.org
EVENTS
Know of any robot competitions I’ve missed? Is your
local school or robot group planning a contest? Send an
email to steve@ncc.com and tell me about it. Be sure to
include the date and location of your contest. If you
have a website with contest info, send along the URL as
well, so we can tell everyone else about it.
For last-minute updates and changes, you can
always find the most recent version of the Robot
Competition FAQ at Robots.net:
http://robots.net/rcfaq.html.
— R. Steven Rainwater
Call Tony: 1 707 447 7744
sales@pcb-pool.com
www.magic-pcb.com
Embedded RFID
authenticate, track & protect
your product
FREE SMT Stencil
with every prototype order
NEW!
www.pcb-pool.com
PCB-POOL® is a registered trademark of
PCB Prototypes & small series
SERVO 02.2014 13
