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This page is dedicated to the FIRST Robotics and Botball Scholastic Robotics Program exhibit and competition component of this year's AstroDay. We hoped to inspire youngsters to become interested in science and technology through these interactive programs.

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Botball II Results
By Allan Honey, Keck Observatory

Five of the eight Big Island Botball teams, who competed in the Hawaiian regional competition at the Hawaiian Convention Center on Oahu this past March, held a mini-competition at the 2004 Astro-Day.

After the elimination rounds the three remaining teams, East Hawaii Homebots,Waiakea Intermediate, and Kea'au Middle schools, held a double match roundrobin. With the Waimea Intermediate and Hawaii Preparatory Academy teams cheering their favorites, the tightly contested matches resulted in Kea'au finishing with the most points, followed by Waiakea and East Hawaii Homebots.

The Botball teams put on a great exhibition with East Hawaii Homebots demonstrating a robot that repeatedly detected, located, grasped, and dunked the playing balls. The complexity of this years game challenged the students ability to quickly adapt to, not only, differing opponents, but also, to repair their robots and modify the robots' control programs between matches.

To learn more about educational robotics programs and Botball in particular, or to learn how you can contribute to students' understanding of science and technology, please visit www.botball.org.
Hawaii Preparatory Academy Botball team Keaau Middle School Botball team East Hawaii HomeBot Botball team
Hawaii Preparatory Academy FIRST robotics team Hawaii Preparatory Academy FIRST robotics team Hilo High School FIRST robotics team
Botball playing field The crowds for the BotBall Robotic exhibits and competition were swarming all day The BotBall competitions were a great way to expose a great deal of people to the scholastic robotics program
Each Hawaii Island BotBall team had an exhibit area, where the public could see and learn more about their project One of the first competition heats Work being done in one of the BotBall "pits"
Keaau Middle School BotBall team setting up their robot for a competition A scorecard displaying some of the results of the days competition. Rene Kimura of Future Flight Hawaii, and some youngsters interested in some soccer playing robots
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