110 students from five local high schools built and programmed 27 robots to participate in RoboCraft 2004. RobotCraft 2004 is a competition in which two robots compete simultaneously in a 4 by 8 arena to be the one to collect the most golf balls and return them to a base. The robots cannot receive any instructions from the students once a three-minute match begins and must be programmed to complete their task autonomously. The robots are built using inexpensive Lego Mindstorms kits provided to the high schools by the SIUE School of Engineering with help from local sponsors. Of the 27 teams ten will go on to compete in the final competition against robots built by freshmen SIUE engineering students taking the IME 106 class. The Computer Science Department, along with other engineering departments, provided logistics, support, and staff for the event.