On March 10th and 11th area high school and middle school students attended the Greater St. Louis Botball robotics workshop presented by the SIUE computer science department.

During the workshop, students learned the basics of building robots including: mechanical structures, electronic sensors, computer programming and robot vision with a camera. The workshop was in preparation for the Greater St. Louis Regional Botball Tournament on April 28th, also held at SIUE.

Botball is a high energy learning experience in which teams pit their autonomous robots in a head-to-head challenge. The challenge will require these young robot scientists to utilize skills and techniques they learned in the workshop.

Good luck to all of the teams!