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Build a robot, draw a robot, code a robot with your friends. There are no rules other then to share the excitement of robotics with your friends, family, or community. Share with us how you will be celebrating!
Conference on law and policy relating to robotics. Workshops March 31, main event April 1-April 2, 2016.
Visit the We Robot 2016 website
Hosted by UMiami School of Law
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6200 San Amaro Drive Coral Gables, FL 33146
The Polytechnic School at Arizona State University invites you to an open house session that gives you the opportunity to visit research robotics labs and explore a variety of robots. Robotics faculty of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering will be there to show you around and to answer all your questions.
Visit the Arizona State University - Robotics at The Polytechnic School website
Hosted by Panagiotis (Panos) Polygerinos
6075 S. Innovation Way West Mesa, AZ 85212
Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students to have fun while learning principles of Science, Technology, Engineering, and math (STEM) and Computer Science. Students design, construct, and program the robots. Teams can apply at http://robofest.net/
Visit the Robofest Competition - The Cornerstone School website
Hosted by Joe Moseley
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2313 SE Lake Weir Ave Ocala, FL 34471
Boiler Robotics is excited and ready to host the Purdue Vex U Pre-Worlds Scrimmage!!! We will be hosting the competition within our home the Lawson Computer Science Building. Purdue's Team, Boiler Robotics will be in attendance and welcomes any Vex U team who wants to compete. They will also be ready to answer any technical questions teams may have with Vex hardware and/or PROS.
Visit the Purdue Vex U Pre-Worlds Scrimmage website
Hosted by Vex U
305 N. University West Lafayette, IN 47907
The VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, is the ultimate STEM activity for middle school and high school students (ages 11-18). Each year, an engineering challenge is presented in the form of a game. Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, use the VEX Robotics Design System to build innovative robots designed to score the most points possible in qualification matches, elimination matches and Skills Challenges. In addition to having a great time and building amazing robots, through their participation in the VEX Robotics Competition and their work within their team, students will learn many academic and life skills
Visit the Washington TSA State Competition website
Hosted by VEX Robotics
18740 International Boulevard SeaTac, WA 98188
Under strict rules, limited resources, and the guidance of volunteer mentors including engineers, teachers, business professionals, parents, alumni and more, teams of 25+ students have just six weeks to build and program robots to perform challenging tasks against a field of competitors. They must also raise funds, design a team "brand," hone teamwork skills, and perform community outreach. In addition to learning valuable STEM and life skills, participants are eligible to apply for $25+ million in college scholarships - See more at: http://www.firstinspires.org/#sthash.oMwVT3NC.dpuf
Visit the Las Vegas Regional FIRST website
Hosted by FIRST
3150 Paradise Road Las Vegas, NV 89109
The seventh annual National Robotics Week event will be held April 2-10, 2016. Georgia Tech’s open house will be held on Friday, April 1 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Since the launch of National Robotics Week in 2010, Georgia Tech has participated annually in the event by sponsoring an open house and conducting lab tours and robot demonstrations for middle and high school students and other members of the community. Sponsored by Georgia Tech’s Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM), our 2016 event promises to be even more exciting than last year, including demos of new robots that have not been featured in previous years.
Visit the NRW Open House & Tours at Georgia Tech website
Hosted by Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
801 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332
FIRST Robotics Competition is a multi-national competition in which high-school students work side-by-side with science and engineering professionals and other adult mentors, to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way. Using a standard “Kit of Parts,” a common set of rules, limited resources and time constraints, FRC teams are challenged to design, build, and program a 120 lb. robot to perform the tasks of the season’s game against a field of competitors in a sports-like event, as well as raise funds, design a team “brand,” and hone teamwork skills. The competitions are high-tech spectator sporting events played on fields the size of a basketball half-court, and are the product of focused brainstorming, real-world teamwork, dedicated mentoring, project timelines and deadlines. “Winning” is not solely defined by which team’s robot scores the most points. FIRST also awards FRC teams for their achievements in areas such as excellence in design, creativity, innovation, business / marketing plan creation, gracious professionalism, etc. The FRC program is a life-changing, career-molding experience that is as close to “real-world” engineering as a student can get.
Visit the FIRST FRC Midwest Regional website
Hosted by FIRST Illinois Robotics
525 S. Racine Ave. Chicago, IL 60607
Explore the biomechanics of complex animal robots to discover how real animals work, in The Robot Zoo. The Robot Zoo reveals the magic of nature as a master engineer. Eight robot animals and more than a dozen hands-on activities illustrate fascinating real-life characteristics, such as how a chameleon changes colors, a giant squid propels itself and a fly walks on the ceiling.
Visit the Robot Zoo website
Hosted by Grand Rapids Public Museum
272 Pearl Street NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504
To celebrate Robotics Week, Discovery World in partnership with Rockwell Automation, will host a robot invasion on our promenade. See robots of all shapes, sizes, and uses and meet the makers behind them. Local FIRST Robotics Teams of all levels, universities, and Rockwell professionals will showcase their engineering skills along with robots built for competition, used in industry, and developed for entertainment. Experience the innovation right here in Milwaukee!
Visit the National Robotics Week at Discovery World website
Hosted by Discovery World
500 N Harbor Dr Milwaukee, WI 53202
Learn to program with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3. There are over 50 programming lessons available for beginners through advanced MINDSTORMS users. You can use any robot you want or build one of the models on the Robot Design page.
Visit the Robotics with LEGO® MINDSTORMS® website
Hosted by EV3Lessons
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Infamous Robotics LLC (www.InfamousRobotics.com) and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum bring you the official kick off event for National Robotics Week. Come see the most exciting robotics technologies made by the smartest minds in the country. Robot demos, on stage presentations and the 'State of Robotics' delivered by speaker Anthony Nunez, CEO of Infamous Robotics LLC will make this one of the most exciting and inspirational days of the week.
Visit the National Robotics Week Official Kick Off event website
Hosted by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum & Infamous Robotics LLC
600 Independence Ave SW Washington DC, DC 20560
Join us for the FIRST Robotics Competition as high schools from all over the state of Michigan compete in this year's game, FIRST Stronghold.
Visit the FIRST Robotics Competition - East Kentwood Event website
Hosted by Wendy Ljungren
6230 Kalamazoo Avenue Kentwood, MI 49508
The Alaska Science and Engineering Fair (ASEF) is an Intel ISEF-Affiliated science fair that is run by a nonprofit organization. Grade K-12 students throughout Alaska are invited to enter a science, engineering, computer science, or mathematics project in the fair. It is not necessary to win or even participate in a local school fair before entering the state-wide ASEF. Every K-12 student from Alaska is welcome!
Visit the Alaska Science & Engineering Fair website
Hosted by Alaska Science & Engineering Fair
4025 East Northern Lights Blvd. Anchorage, AK 99508
This is a programming event where the community comes together and works on fun April Fool's themed projects. There will be a workshop to help get beginners started. - Free event - Limited space - Food will be provided
Visit the April Fool's Hackathon website
Hosted by Gizmo
806 N 4th St Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814
Bots & Beer is the regular social meetup for roboticists and anyone interested in robotics in the Bay Area. Bring your bot along for 'show'n'tell' at our lightening talks or just enjoy.
Visit the Bots & Beer website
Hosted by Silicon Valley Robotics
599 Fairchild Drive Mountain View, CA 94043
To help celebrate National Robotics Week, we’ve created a FREE, online version of our Robot Virtual Worlds software, which you can use in your classroom to teach students about robotics and introductory programming concepts. Robot Virtual Worlds is a great tool to help you teach more efficiently with fewer resources, lower the cost of staring a robotics classroom, manage students working at different levels, and keep students engaged in learning!
Visit the Robot Virtual Worlds website
Hosted by Robomatter, Incorporated
Come and experience firsthand the excitement of a FIRST® Robotics Competition event! Combining the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology, this is the ultimate Sport for the Mind™. Watch as student-built-robots compete in the 2016 challenge, FIRST STRONGHOLD. In FIRST STRONGHOLD, two Alliances of three robots each are on a Quest to breach their opponents’ fortifications, weaken their tower with boulders, and capture the opposing tower. Robots score points by breaching opponents’ defenses and scoring boulders through goals in the opposing tower. During the final 20 seconds of the Quest, robots may surround and scale the opposing tower to capture it.
Visit the New England District - Boston Event website
Hosted by New England FIRST
925 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215
Visit the New England District - Hartford Event website
Hosted by NE FIRST
55 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105
Visit the North Carolina District - Campell University/Johnston Community College Event website
Hosted by FIRST North Carolina
56 Main Street Buies Creek, NC 27506
Visit the Pacific Northwest District - Auburn Event website
Hosted by Washington FIRST Robotics
711 E. Main Street Auburn, WA 98002
Get a taste of the hardest fun you’ll ever have! FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) combines the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology. FRC teams made up of engineering mentors, teachers, corporate sponsors, and students are challenged to raise funds, design a team "brand," hone teamwork skills, and build and program robots to perform prescribed tasks against a field of competitors. Under strict time limits and limited funds, teams compete in a new competition each year to design and build a robot in just six weeks. It’s as close to "real-world engineering" as a student can get.
Visit the FIRST Robotics - Hartford District Event website
55 Forest St. Hartford, CT 06106
Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students to have fun while learning principles of Science, Technology, Engineering, and math (STEM) and Computer Science. Students design, construct, and program the robots. Teams can register at http://robofest.net/
Visit the Robofest Competition - Creation Station website
Hosted by Nandu Vellal
1 Park Drive Suite 9 Westford, MA 01886
Visit the Mid-Atlantic Robotics District - Bridgewater-Raritan Event website
Hosted by FIRST Mid-Atlantic
600 Garretson Road Bridgewater, NJ 08807
Visit the Mid-Atlantic Robotics District - Westtown Event website
957 Westtown Road West Chester, PA 19382
This Is a VEX Robotics Competition, where VEX U (College Level) and VEX Robotics - High School Division teams will be playing the 2015-2016 game "Nothing but Net". This 60 team event will have a number of teams who have qualified for the CREATE US Open and the VEX World Championship. This will make it a fast and fun event. This event is free and open to the public!
Visit the Warm Up for the World of Spring - A National Robotics Week Event website
Hosted by Pembroke Academy Robotics
209 Academy Rd Pembroke, NH 03275
Visit the FIRST Robotics Competition - Howell Event website
Hosted by Kevin Carstensen
400 Wright Road Howell, MI 48843
Visit the FIRST Robotics Competition - LSSU Event website
Hosted by Jeanne Shibly
650 Meridian Street Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
Visit the FIRST Robotics Competition - Troy Event website
Hosted by David Pierczynski
4333 John R Road Troy, MI 48085
This is a FIRST Robotics Competition that registered teams, from around the nation, are able to compete against each other with finely tuned 160 lb robots through Gracious Professionalism and Coopertition. This event is open to anyone who is wanting to see fun-filled, eccentric, and creative teams use their robots to perform in games.
Visit the Hub City Regional Competition website
Hosted by For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
1701 Indiana Ave Lubbock, TX 79409
Happy 12th Birthday Arduino! day.arduino.cc Robot Garden will be hosting a birthday party for the little microcontroller "Arduino". Since the Arduino ecosystem lives on sharing ideas and experiences, we will provide some demos. But this is not an One-Band-Show, so please bring your contraptions along, even if there is still some work needed. If you have a starter kit already (or just an Arduino board), but never got started playing with it, feel free to bring it as well. We did not really get a formal workshop together in the past years, but we have enough people to get you started. So please, if you're interested, leave a comment here at our MeetUp or send me an email at arduinoD16 at bytesalad dot org ;-) Some of my experiments with different Arduinos are here: http://marcoscorner.walther-family.org/category/arduino/ Marco, Fred & the rest of the Robot-Garden band
Visit the Arduino Day website
Hosted by Robot Garden
2324 Second St Livermore, CA 94550
In FIRST STRONGHOLDSM, two Alliances of three robots each are on a Quest to breach their opponents’ fortifications, weaken their tower with boulders, and capture the opposing tower. Robots score points by breaching opponents’ defenses and scoring boulders through goals in the opposing tower. During the final 20 seconds of the Quest, robots may surround and scale the opposing tower to capture it. - See more at: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc#sthash.OB5oca5T.dpuf
Visit the 2016 PNW Dist 8 – Clackamas Academy of Industrial Sciences website
Hosted by Clackamas Academy of Industrial Science
1306 12th St. Oregon City, OR 97045
In FIRST STRONGHOLDSM, two Alliances of three robots each are on a Quest to breach their opponents’ fortifications, weaken their tower with boulders, and capture the opposing tower. Robots score points by breaching opponents’ defenses and scoring boulders through goals in the opposing tower. During the final 20 seconds of the Quest, robots may surround and scale the opposing tower to capture it. - See more at: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc#sthash.fzBKgIV4.dpuf
Visit the Queen City Regional website
Hosted by Queen City FIRST
1624 Herald Ave Cincinnati, OH 45207
Visit the Orange County Regional FIRST website
Hosted by Orange County FIRST
500 Bradford Avenue Placentia, CA 92870
Visit the South Florida Regional FIRST website
Hosted by FIRST in Florida
650 Okeechobee Blvd West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Visit the FIRST in Hawaii Robotics Regional website
Hosted by Friends of Hawaii Robotics
1355 Lower CAmpus Road Honolulu, HI 96822
Visit the Idaho Regional FIRST Competition website
Hosted by Idaho FIRST
1401 Bronco Lane Boise, ID 83725
Visit the SBPLI Long Island Regional FIRST website
Hosted by SBPLI FIRST
245 Hofstra Blvd Hampstead, NY 11550
Visit the Smoky Mountain FIRST Regional website
Hosted by Tennessee FIRST
1600 Phillip Fulmer Way #202 Knoxville, TN 37996
The Avnet Tech Games is an annual technology competition that provides college students with an opportunity to win scholarships by applying what they learn in school to real-world IT business scenarios. And, sponsoring faculty members are eligible for cash honorariums.
Visit the 11th annual Avnet Tech Games website
Hosted by AVNET
2625 W Baseline Rd Tempe, AZ 85283
The Seacoast SeaPerch Regional Competition is an annual event, held at UNH in Durham, which includes different challenges for the SeaPerch teams to complete. The 2016 Challenge will be held on Saturday, April 2nd, at the Swasey Pool and Chase Ocean Engineering Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire.
Visit the Seacoast SeaPerch Challenge website
Hosted by Sea Perch
24 Colovos Road Durham, NH 03824
Robots navigate a model home in search of a fire, represented by a burning candle, and then works to extinguish it. Watch out for walls, furniture, animals and other obstacles! Cash prizes are awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams in each division
Visit the The Trinity College International Robot Contest website
Hosted by Trinity College
300 Summit Street Hartford, CT 06106
Celebrate National Robotics Week 2016 by checking out the cool ‘bots designed by Chicago-area student and amateur teams, watching a live robotics competition and interacting with some state-of-the-art robots. All activities are included in Museum Entry.
Visit the Robot Block Party website
Hosted by Museum of Science and Industry
5700 S Lake Shore Dr Chicago, IL 60637
Transform your understanding of robotics as we look at how robots work and why they are an important part of our daily lives. Watch demonstrations and participate in activities from Indiana FIRST, an organization dedicated to growing robotics programs in the state of Indiana.
Visit the Robotics Day at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis website
Hosted by The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
3000 N. Meridian St. Indianapolis, IN 46208
USU Extension/4-H is offering a 4 session robotics class designed for ALL YOUTH ages 9-11. (You DO NOT need to be enrolled in 4-H to attend.) The course material is structured as a “hands on” and “learn by doing” experience, with new programming ideas. Participants will build small Lego Mindstorm EV3 robots and learn to command them to smile and speak, travel in straight and curved lines, and follow a path.Feb. 6, Mar. 5, Apr. 2, & May 7
Visit the Beginning Robotics Class website
Hosted by Salt Lake County 4H
2001 S. State Street Salt Lake City, UT 84190
See FTC Team #7802-Challenge Accepted and the Univ of Mississippi's Ctr for Math & Science Education demonstrate FIRST Tech Challenge robots in Memphis, TN.
Visit the
Hosted by FTC 7802 and UM Center for Mathematics & Science Education
3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard Memphis, TN 38116
Spark!lab transforms into Robo!Lab for Robotics Week 2016! Practice driving a remote control robot through a maze of straws, program a friend, design your own robot prototype, build a working circuit, or choreograph a robot dance!
Visit the Robo!Lab at Berkshire Museum website
Hosted by Kendra
39 South Street Pittsfield, MA 01201
You’ll get to see what Arduino is and how it can be used in your own projects. On display will be several Arduino based robots for you to touch and experiment with. Agenda: Arduino Intro to Uno, Mega and Nano Driving Motors Robots Sensors Show & Tell Q & A What to Bring: If you have any Arduino based projects of your own please feel free to bring them. We’ll have a place set up for you to show it off.
Hosted by Copperas Cove Public Library
501 S Main St Copperas Cove, TX 76522
Come hang out with us as we join groups around the world to celebrate and learn about one of our favorite electronics development platforms, Arduino. We're doing a whole day of demos and workshops, like last year. We hope you'll bring your Arduino project to show off. Or come try out Arduino programming for the first time. We'll have various prizes to give out, and snacks.
Visit the Arduino Day 2016 at Motherlode MakerLabs website
Hosted by Motherlode MakerLabs
251 Barretta St. Sonora, CA 95370
Washington Robotics Society and Titanium Titans Robotics want to invite families to learn about FIRST LEGO League (FLL) and watch local FLL teams kick-off National Robotics Week. Spectators can watch children from around Washington County, PA use their LEGO robots to line-follow through a taped maze.
Visit the Line Labyrinth - LEGO Robotics Line-Following Tournament website
Hosted by Washington Robotics Society and Titanium Titans Robotics
1500 W Chestnut St Washington , PA 15301
The Robotix Institute is hosting it's First Annual Robotics Festival at our Fremont, CA location. The Festival will focus on STEM education and have robots, workshops, displays and family activities free to the public.
Visit the Robotics Festival website
Hosted by Robotix Institute
47810 Warm Springs Blvd Fremont, CA 94539
More than a festival, iMAGINE Upstate fueled by ScanSource is an annual celebration and showcase around STEAM, innovation, creative and entrepreneurial activity in the Upstate. The STEAM Festival is being held on April 2nd, 2016 from 11am - 5pm in the West End of downtown Greenville! In addition to the street experience, the festival features six unforgettable track stages. The festival layout runs from South Main Street to Markley Street. Main Street will be lined with tents showcasing YOUR future. Interactive learning experiences, family-friendly, inspirational... this experience will showcase more than what you could have ever imagined! Plan your day and win prizes by downloading the app in Google Play or the App Store. Visit www.imagineupstate.org to learn more. #imagineIF
Visit the iMAGINE Upstate Festival fueled by ScanSource website
Hosted by iMAGINE Upstate
S. Main Street Greenville, SC 29601
R4K2 will have a collection of student built robots on display at the Generator, Burlington's Maker Space. This show case will be the culmination of a series of classes R4K2 is holding throughout Vermont. www.r4k2.com
Visit the Robot Showcase website
Hosted by Christine Braun
250 Main Street Burlington, VT 05401
You say you've got some robot parts... Look, we've all done it. Purchased say one too many gear motors for that special project we never seem to get to. Time to clean out the attic! Not JUST robot parts! Electronic components of all kinds are welcome. • Have a motor driver you don't need? Some machine screws that need a good home? • Stroll around a pick through treasure-laden parts collections. • Haggle for that power transistor gem. • Bring family and friends for a one-of-a-kind shopping spree! SEE YOU THERE!
Visit the (Not Just) Robot Swap Meet website
Please Please Join Us At “You-do-it” Electronics Center For Arduino Day! Saturday, April 2, 2016 from 11am to 4pm -Learn About Arduino & What It Is -Meet & Greet Other Arduino Enthusiasts -See Arduino Project Demonstrations Raffles, Product Specials, Refreshments & More! Featured Vendors: Sparkfun, Adafruit, Osepp & Actobotics! No registration needed. Just stop by anytime during scheduled hours!
Visit the Arduino Day 2016 website
Hosted by "You-do-it" Electronics Center
40 Franklin Street Needham, MA 02494
Robots are coming! Let's be ready to program them :) This group is for aspiring roboticists. This week: • Sensors! Our order for GP2Y0A60SZLF Analog Distance Sensor, IMU, and RTCs should have come in. • This meetup occurs during Robot Garden's weekly open access. Programming experience comes in handy. Persons under 18 must have a parent or guardian sign a waiver and must be accompanied. • Become a member of our forum: http://prsg.freeforums.org/ • New to ROS? You can catch up online! See Programming Robots Study Group session notes at http://www.robotgarden.org/wiki/robotics/ • Remember to bring your computer WITH ROS DESKTOP. Using our Virtual Machine on your PC satisfies this requirement. Our virtual machine has the relevant software pre-installed. Read about it here: http://www.robotgarden.org/wiki/robotics/programming-robots/programming-robots-study-group-vm/.
Visit the Programming Robots Study Group website
The LVL1 community will be joining in on the world-wide celebration of Arduino Day on April 2nd and we’d love for you to join us. We will be celebrating one of the ubiquitous tools of the Maker Movement that has helped so many people by running a workshop on the Arduino hosted by Nathan Armentrout, displaying Arduino-based projects, and other activities as we get this organized.
Visit the Join LVL1 in celebrating Arduino Day April 2nd 2016 website
Hosted by LVL1 Hackerspace
1205 East Washington Street Louisville, KY 40206
First FRC Team 3735 Community Robot Demonstration and Open House
Visit the Klein Bots Open House website
Hosted by Klein Bots FRC 3735
11400 Misty Valley Dr Houston, TX 77066
Come and learn about microcontrollers and celebrate International Arduino Day at TechShop Pittsburgh!
Visit the International Arduino Day website
Hosted by TechShop Pittsburgh
192 Bakery Square Blvd Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Dawn of Drawbot! This week... We will look at stepper motor controllers and check in on progress. Hopefully folks will have found time to print the shoulder and elbow pulleys. Some resources: • A list of parts • A mechanical design • Github • Wiki We will be presenting using hangouts so others may join. We'll have a prototype @ RG for inspection. This is a project in association with the open source robot arm community. Join the robot arm project!
Visit the Open Source Robot Arm Group website
Pittsburgh is well-known for robotics - Carnegie Mellon University, Astrobotics, RedZone Robotics, and more. There are lots of opportunities available for kids in grades K-12 to be involved in robotics. This session will focus on robotics programs from FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). FIRST programs are a great way to learn STEAM skills including effective presentation skills, mathematics, programming and engineering. You will learn about FIRST LEGO League Junior, FIRST LEGO League (FLL), FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC), and FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC). This is a hands-on workshop and kids will be able to interact with small and large robots. This event is hosted by three award-winning FIRST teams (FLL Not the Droids You Are Looking For, FTC BrainSTEM Robotics and FRC FRobotics)
Visit the Explore the Sport of the Mind - Robotics for K-12 website
Hosted by Droids Robotics
403 Fox Chapel Road Fox Chapel, PA 15238
Join us for an afternoon of hands-on activities that will inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. This event is open to children in elementary, middle, and high school. Parents, family members, and the community are welcome! The purpose of the Mineral County STEM Network is to foster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics awareness among the children and youth of Mineral County, WV and the surrounding region.
Visit the Mineral County WV STEM Festival website
Hosted by Mineral County STEM Network
101 Fort Avenue Keyser, WV 26726
Get a taste of the hardest fun you’ll ever have! FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) combines the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology. FRC teams made up of engineering mentors, teachers, corporate sponsors, and students are challenged to raise funds, design a team "brand," hone teamwork skills, and build and program robots to perform prescribed tasks against a field of competitors. Under strict time limits and limited funds, teams compete in a new competition each year to design and build a robot in just six weeks. It’s as close to "real-world engineering" as a student can get. This event is free and open to the public!
National Robotics Week at Discovery Lab, April 2-9. Discovery Lab is proud to participate in National Robotics Week with a week of family-friendly hands-on activities, demos, and classes to inspire involvement, educate participants, and celebrate robotics and other Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math-related fields (STEM). Discovery Lab’s Robotics Week will culminate with a Robotics Fair on Saturday, April 9th. This is a day dedicated to providing hands-on robotics experiences and fun for kids of all ages. Join us for the grand opening of Tinkering Studio, our new traveling exhibit from Oklahoma Museum Network funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, and demos and activities presented by several robotics groups from local schools, and more. Discovery Lab Robotics Week includes: --Jr. Bot Ball and First Lego League demonstration by Carnegie 4th grade --Hands-on activities and classes by museum educators including Circuit Blocks, Coding, Dress like a Robot, Bumper Bots, and more --Oklahoma Museum Network Tinkering Studio Grand Opening --Demos and activities by local school robotics groups including Dove Science First Robotic Team, Memorial High School First Robotic Team, Jenks High School Prime Movers, and Moore Elementary First Lego League Robotics Week activities are FREE with Discovery Lab admission. Plan your visit today!
Visit the Discovery Lab Robotics Week website
Hosted by Tulsa Children's Museum Discovery Lab
560 N. Maybelle Ave. Tulsa, OK 74127
Carmel, NY High School Robotics FRC Team 5943 “The Bad News Gears” along with the Ossining, NY High School FRC Team 4122 “O-Bots” . We will have our FRC competition robot on display and our team members will be speaking to the students and the public about FIRST Robotics and STEM. Expo expects over 40 of the top engineering schools in the areas, so if you're scouting schools, this is a good place. There will also be about 50 local firms as well. Please spread the word in your high schools and to your friends about this Expo College Fair component.
Visit the Lower Hudson Valley Engineering Expo (FRC ROBOT DEMO) website
Hosted by JoAnn Rerek
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550 North Street White Plains, NY 10605
Members of local robotics teams from CVTM Robotics will be on hand to answer questions, provide demonstrations, and will have robots available to use, as well as other robot themed activities. Join FTC 6966 and FTC 8527, as well as FLL teams 2211, 2212, and 2213 for a robot filled day of fun!
Visit the Champlain Valley Robot Expo website
Hosted by CVTM Robotics
60 Smithfield Blvd Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Join us for our 2nd annual Robot Day, the largest event at San Diego Public Library. Dress up like a robot, participate in a hands on activity, attend a workshop, or watch a robot competition to celebrate robotics education and development. This is free event for all ages.
Visit the Robot Day website
Hosted by San Diego Public Library
330 Park Blvd San Diego, CA 92101
Each day of the week I will feature a different robot in my kindergarten classroom, including programming and demonstration, as well as connected reading, writing, and mathematics activities.
Visit the The Kindergarten Robot Parade website
Hosted by August Deshais
2060 Ridgewood Dr Eureka, CA 95503
6th grade student will have a different robot lesson each day except Tuesday during a special time dedicated to robotics instruction.
Visit the C.C. Griffin Middle School - 6th grade website
Hosted by Jon Caskey
7650 Griffin's Gate Drive SW Concord, NC 28025
Each day we host 6th, 7th and 8th grade students for a full day, out of school experience to learn about the world of work at Qualcomm and to have a hands on experience with #engineering. Last year students created more than 1,500 robotic creations during our lab season from Sept to May. This year we've already created more than 2,000 robocrafts. Our mission is to inspire future inventors. Our program takes place five days per week during the school year on-site at Qualcomm headquarters in San Diego, California at our Thinkabit Lab. You can learn to build the basics of a robocraft by selecting our event website link to see our "how to" videos to code an LED and Servo or cut and past this link: http://www.uctv.tv/steam/thinkabit/
Visit the Thinkabit Lab Robocrafting website
Hosted by Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab
5880 Oberlin Drive San Diego, CA 92121
Explore the world of Lego Robotics using the WeDo construction kits. Participants will work in teams of two to build and program their robot! For K-2nd grade. Registration required.
Visit the WeDo Lego Robotics website
Hosted by Fayetteville Free Library
300 Orchard St. Fayetteville, NY 13066
Dr. Canfield of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Tennessee Tech is giving a presentation on the "Rise of Robots"! He will be answering questions such as "How can I get more involved with robotics?" and "How will the advancing field of robotic technology affect me, my job, and my future?" There will also be free pizza and drinks!
Visit the Robotics Talk! website
Hosted by TTU Autonomous Robotics Club
1 William L. Jones Dr. Cookeville, TN 38505
Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students to have fun while learning principles of Science, Technology, Engineering, and math (STEM) and Computer Science. Students design, construct, and program the robots. Teams can register http://robofest.net/
Visit the Robofest Competition - Ann Arbor website
Hosted by CJ Chung
2800 Plymouth Rd Ann Arbor, MI 48105
This free event is open to all ages. Come experience the cutting-edge advances made by Michigan robotics’ companies and research organizations, hear from leading minds in the field, and see how students are diving into the field at the high school and college levels.
Visit the Michigan Robotics Day website
Hosted by University of Michigan, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences
2800 Plymouth Road Ann Arbor, MI 48105
ello robot aficionados! We bet you love robots as much as we do, so in the Robotics Contest, we're asking you to share your robot projects with the world. You'll be in the running to win some wonderful prizes from iRobot in partnership with National Robotics Week, including the iRobot Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot, an iRobot Braava 380t Mopping Robot, iRobot Create 2 Programmable Robot, and more.
Visit the Instructables Robot Contest website
Hosted by Instructables
Assumption School's STEM Coordinator will highlight and demo robotics through out the whole week of Robotics week. Ending with a FIRST jr FLL event.
Visit the Robotics in the Classroom website
Hosted by Assumption School
203 W 3rd St O'Fallon, MO 63366
13 robots are traveling to 40 Vermont schools training for our spring Robot Rodeo to be held in May. Each school gets to train the robot for one month.
Visit the Robot Rodeo website
Hosted by Vita-Learn
70 South Winooski Ave Burlington, VT 05401
The Town of Easton is proud to announce its 2nd Annual STEAM Day to be hosted at the Easton Middle School on April 5, 2016 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm. Featuring thought leaders from the public and private sectors, the conversation will focus on the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) education for workforce training and community competitiveness. Panel speakers include: Congressman Joe Kennedy III, Easton Selectman and Economic Development Council Chairman Daniel Smith, Superintendent of Easton Schools Dr. Andrew Keough, Assistant Superintendent Dr. Lisha Cabral, Science from Scientists Founder and Executive Director Dr. Erika Ebbel Angle, Lisa Freed of iRobot, and Tom Foley of Siemens. The event will be moderated by JD Chesloff of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable.
Visit the 2nd Annual Easton STEAM Day website
Hosted by Easton Public Schools
98 Columbus Ave Easton, MA 02356
Join @mturesearch from Michigan Technological University 1:30-2:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday April 5 for a live tour of the HIRo Lab. HIRo stands for human-interactive robotics lab and is led by Mo Rastgaar, known for his falcon drone catcher. The lab focuses on Mo's research to make better a ankle prosthesis. Along with lab manager Evandro Ficanha, Mo and his team use a variety of robotic tools to test human biomechanics and robotic designs. The key is all in the ankle--a surprisingly complex joint.
Visit the Live Lab Tour: Robotic Ankle Prosthesis website
Hosted by Michigan Tech
A two part program to learn how to build and program a Lego EV3 robot. Tuesday April 5th AND Thursday April 7th, session for 8-10 year olds begins at 3:30 pm and session for 10-12 year olds begins at 5:30 pm
Visit the Kids: Program a Robot! website
Hosted by Russell County Public Library
248 W. Main Lebanon, VA 24266
Visit the Robofest Competition - Cloquet Middle School website
Hosted by Cameron Linder
509 Carlton Ave Cloquet, MN 55720
Free 45 minutes introductory session. You will have the opportunity to program the robot to react to its environment utilizing sensor feedback. Limited seats are available. Pre-Registration IS Required. No Walk-in will be accepted. Grade requirement: Grades 4 to 8. IMPORTANT: If you register, you will take up a seat. If you think you will not attend, please inform us at least two weeks ahead. This will allow us to release the seat to someone else. Schedule: Three Sessions available on April 5th/Tuesday : 5:00-5:45PM, and 6:00-6:45PM To Reserve a seat: Please note that seats are limited. Write to office@stormingrobots.com or call us at 908-595-1010 to register for the time slot you will attend.
Visit the Introduce the coolness of programming self-awareness for the robot! website
Hosted by Storming Robots
3322 Rt. 22 West Branchburg, NJ 08876
Come test you design and programming skills at the Great Robot Race! There are many tables set up where a team can build and program either a Boebot or a LegoMindstorm robot to compete in an obstacle course! There will be free pizza, drinks, t-shirts, and 3D printed trophy prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places!
Visit the The Great Robot Race! website
That ONE Team-Our Next Engineers will be demonstrating their high school built robots for the FIRST Robotics competition (firstinspires.org). There will be a demonstration of what the robots can do and time for questions about the team and robots. The audience will get a chance to drive the robots under the drive team's supervision. There will also be small LEGO robots and mentors to help younger children learn and explore the world of robotics.
Visit the FIRST Robotics Demonstration website
Hosted by That ONE Team 4967
2650 5 Mile Rd NE Grand Rapids, MI 49525
Visit the Pacific Northwest District Championship sponsored by Autodesk website
300 North Winning Way Portland, OR 97227
UTARI studies robots that perform daily tasks. In celebration of NRW, UTARI will hold an open house from 9AM-1PM, 4/6/2016. There will be a tour of the facility, presentations of what we research with our robots and free giveaways. Parties of 20 people or more should call 817-272-5900. To learn more about UTARI visit: http://www.uta.edu/utari/
Visit the UTA Research Institute Robotics Week website
Hosted by UTARI
7300 Jack Newell Blvd S Fort Worth, TX 76118-7115
Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, will build a robot using the VEX IQ robotics platform to solve an engineering challenge that is presented in the form of a game. VEX IQ Challenge teams will work together scoring points in Teamwork Matches, and also display their robot’s skills individually in driver controlled and autonomous Skills Challenges.
Visit the TSA State Conference VEX IQ website
Hosted by VEX IQ
5750 Will Rogers Rd Midwest City, OK 73110
Visit the Tennessee State TSA Conference website
1150 Carter St. Chattanooga, TN 37402
TSA Vex Competition
Hosted by Tennessee State TSA
The VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, is the ultimate STEM activity for middle school and high school students (ages 11-18). Each year, an engineering challenge is presented in the form of a game. Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, use the VEX Robotics Design System to build innovative robots designed to score the most points possible in qualification matches, elimination matches and Skills Challenges. In addition to having a great time and building amazing robots, through their participation in the VEX Robotics Competition and their work within their team, students will learn many academic and life skills.
Visit the TSA State Conference VEX VRC website
Hosted by Vex Robotics
5750 Will Rogers Rd, Midwest City, OK 73110
Visit the Arizona West Regional website
3300 W. Camelback Road Phoenix, AZ 85017
Visit the Silicon Valley Regional presented by Google.org website
290 South 7th Street San Jose, CA 95112
Visit the Minnesota 10,000 Lakes Regional website
Hosted by Minnesota FIRST
1925 University Avenue SE Minneapolis, MN 55455
Visit the Minnesota North Star Regional website
1901 4th Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455
Visit the Lone Star Regional website
1001 Avenida de las Americas Houston, TX 77010
Visit the Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional website
Visit the FIRST Chesapeake District Championship, sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton website
2001 Paint Branch Drive College Park, MD 20740
Students develop programs at their school and come to USD to show how well the robots work
Visit the Robotics Programming Contest website
Hosted by University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark STreet Vermillion, SD 57069
Teachers and students will share their robotics creations with different grade levels and hallway displays.
Hosted by McCool School
We are pleased to announce the Adafruit drone film festival! The Adafruit Dronies celebrates videos taken from drones. The contest is open to everyone in the United States to show and share their amazing drone videos. You'll be judged on creative use of technology, storytelling, and cinematography.
Visit the Adafruit 2016 Dronies website
Hosted by Adafruit
Students in the fourth and fifth grade will be reviewing use of Tickle app for programming Dash/Dot, Ollie, Spheros and BB8.
Visit the Fun with Robots website
Hosted by Orchard School Library
2 Baldwin Avenue South Burlington, VT 05403
Join the rolling, roving, singing, dancing robots at Jabil's Blue Sky Center. Organized by Silicon Valley Robotics, the not-for-profit industry group supporting innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. Robots on display will be out of this world (literally!), from the latest space research to the most sophisticated manufacturing robots, from the newest startups, to the youngest robot makers.
Visit the Silicon Valley Robot Block Party website
6375 San Ignacio Ave San Jose, CA 95119
From 1:30-2:30 EDT on Wednesday April 6, join Nina Mahmoudian from Michigan Tech to talk water, wires, and autonomous underwater vehicles. Both an NSF CAREER Award winner and Navy Research YIP Award winner, Nina breaks down how continuous operation will change the world of underwater robotics--and help Amazon deliver packages to your doorstep. Feel free to ask questions and join in #mtulive. Tag @NinaMahmoudian and @mturesearch.
Visit the Live Chat: Underwater Robotics website
The Pensacola MESS Hall is holding a variety of programs all week including a homeschool workshop, a robot show, Mindstorms workshop, and hydraulics workshop.
Visit the Robotics Week website
Hosted by Pensacola MESS Hall
116 N Tarragona St Pensacola, FL 32502
Middle and high school students from within the Laramie area are invited to the University of Wyoming to engage in STEM related activities including: learning to program through fun and interactive games, designing computer graphics, and controlling real robots to perform tasks.
Visit the Laramie Robotics Club Meeting website
Hosted by Laramie Robotics Club
1000 E. University Ave Laramie, WY 82071
Join the Autonomous Robotics Club and other robot enthusiasts for a night of food, games, t-shirts, and robots! Get to know other people interested in robotics and learn more about how you can get involved!
Visit the Robotics Club Potluck! website
Our world-renowned leaders in robotic surgery will present advances in complex minimally invasive surgery through concurrent multispecialty sessions. Continuing Medical Education- Target audience includes gynecologists, gynecologic oncologists, bariatric surgeons, general surgeons, cardiothoracic surgeons, anesthesiologists, robotic surgical teams, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, operating room nurses
Visit the Miami Robotics Symposium-Fourth Biennial website
Hosted by Baptist Health South Florida
4525 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33140
Visit the CREATE U.S. Open Robotics Championship - VEX IQ - GRADE SCHOOL Division website
1 Arena Way Council Bluffs, IA 51501
he CREATE Foundation is proud to host the U.S. Open Robotics CREATE Jr. Championship, an opportunity for elite Robotics teams from across the country to compete with and against the best of the best. The USO has four divisions this year, High School, Middle School and CREATE Jr. - Grade School and VEX IQ - Grade School.
Visit the CREATE U.S. Open Robotics Championship - CREATE Jr. - GRADE SCHOOL Division website
Hosted by The CREATE Foundation
The CREATE Foundation is proud to host the U.S. Open Robotics Championship, an opportunity for top Robotics teams from across the world to compete with and against the best of the best. The US Open has six separate tournaments.
Visit the CREATE U.S. Open Robotics Championship - OPEN DIVISION website
The CREATE Foundation is proud to host the U.S. Open Robotics Championship, an opportunity for top VEX Robotics teams from across the world to compete with and against the best of the best.
Visit the CREATE U.S. Open Robotics Championship website
Hosted by Create Foundation Vex
Each year Workforce Solutions Borderplex supports STEM initiatives for young students through STEM Fiesta. The purpose of STEM Fiesta is to increase awareness of educational and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematic fields.
Visit the STEM+Art Fiesta 3.0 website
11670 Chito Samaniego Dr. El Paso, TX 79936
Under strict rules, limited resources, and the guidance of volunteer mentors including engineers, teachers, business professionals, parents, alumni and more, teams of 25+ students have just six weeks to build and program robots to perform challenging tasks against a field of competitors. They must also raise funds, design a team "brand," hone teamwork skills, and perform community outreach. In addition to learning valuable STEM and life skills, participants are eligible to apply for $25+ million in college scholarships. - See more at: http://www.firstinspires.org/#sthash.SjcaqbWW.dpuf
Visit the Pine Tree District NE FIRST website
190 Birch St Lewistonm, ME 04240
Visit the FIRST in Michigan website
2552 N. Maple Road Ann Arbor, MI 48103
24787 Van Horn Road Brownstown, MI 48134
Visit the New England District - Pine Tree Event website
190 Birch Street Lewiston, ME 04240
Every year, FLATE invites Hillsborough County middle and high Schools with Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, to visit the Hillsborough Community College (HCC) Engineering Technology program and labs, housed on the college’s Brandon Campus. The tour experiences are hosted by FLATE staff and HCC faculty and usually last 1.5 – 2 hours. After a tour of the ET labs, including “hands-on” activities and equipment demonstrations (e.g. robotic arm, 3-D printing NAO robots), the experience will wraps up with a discussion about manufacturing careers, educational pathways and credentials. The School District of Hillsborough County is providing transportation for the students to and from HCC. All other costs will be covered by a grant from Hillsborough County. - See more at: http://fl-ate.org/event/engineering-technology-experience-tour-4/#sthash.L0qoN53O.dpuf
Visit the FLATE Engineering Technology Experience Tour website
Hosted by FLATE
10414 E Columbus Dr. Tampa, FL 33619
Join the Autonomous Robotics Club for a showcase of all of our greatest robots! We will have robots moving around everywhere where people can come try to operate them and see them up close. We will also be giving out free t-shirts!
Visit the Robot Showcase! website
Visit the Robofest Competition - Emerson website
Hosted by Kuryan Vyas
18240 Huntington Rd Detroit, MI 48219
Come see the many types of robots and research in robotics happening at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln! See flying robots, medical robots, modular robots, and teleoperated robots! Flying robots (UAVs, drones) and teleoperated robots: 223 Schorr Center for Computer Science and Engineering University of Nebraska – Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588 Medical Robots: 360 Scott Engineering Center University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68588 Medical and Modular Robots: 359 Scott Engineering Center University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68588
Visit the Robotics at University of Nebraska website
Hosted by University of Nebraska-Lincoln
223 Schorr Center Lincoln, NE 68588
Here in the Tampa Bay area, FLATE is partnering with HCC’s Florida TRADE team to host a Manufacturing Expo and Career Fair on Thursday April 7 starting at 3 p.m. at Hillsborough Community College in Brandon. Florida TRADE Director, Miguel Angel Garcia envisions an event that exposes students, existing workers, and unemployed and/or underemployed individuals, parents and all citizens of Hillsborough County to the manufacturing industry and manufacturing careers. The event will showcase robotics as an important and widespread supportive technology in manufacturing, and witness manufacturing as the epitome of integrating STEM concepts in its everyday work. - See more at: http://fl-ate.org/event/manufacturing-career-fair-expo-tampa/#sthash.ZahXuA5N.dpuf
Visit the FLATE Manufacturing Career Fair & Expo (Tampa) website
10414 E. Columbus Dr. Tampa, FL 33619
Come learn about the great new Epilog Zing laser and laser cut your own robot keychain. The robot keychain will commemorate National Robotics Week here at the FFL. Grades 5 and up please. Please register as supplies are limited.
Visit the Make Laser Cut Robot Keychains website
Come learn about the great new Epilog Zing laser and laser cut your own robot key chain. The robot key chain will commemorate National Robotics Week here at the Fayetteville Free Library(FFL). Grades 5 and up please.
Visit the Laser Cut Robot Key Chains website
300 Orchard St Fayetteville, NY 13066
A weeklong celebration with that will allow youth to get an up close and personal look at how robotics are changing the world. From interacting with robots, to programming them, there will be a little bit of everything to do. Daily demonstrations will showcase how robots are used in research, manufacturing, and education. The week will end with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Institute of Electronic & Electrical Engineers Edinburg Chapter showcasing how circuits are integrated into robotics.
Visit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Edinburg RGV Robotics Week 2016 website
Hosted by Boys & Girls Clubs of Edinburg RGV
702 Cullen Street Edinburg, TX 78541
Ever wanted to know more about how robots work? Then come to this FREE event filled with demonstrations of different types of robots. Featuring BrainS.T.E.M. Learning, ZegoBeast, and TechShop member projects. This event is free and open to both members and non-members of TechShop.
Visit the Robotics Demos at TechShop website
In Robotics, kids will learn how to build robots to conquer all sorts of challenges, from traversing terrain to even solving rubric’s cubes! We will use Lego’s latest and greatest robotics kits, the Mindstorm EV 3. These kits include variable output motors, touch/light/sound/color sensors, and even a programmable and portable computer that controls the robot. They’ll also learn how to use the Mindstorm’s program editor to build and edit they’re own custom programs for the robots. Want to build a robotic snake? How about a Lego robot, to sort your other Legos? We’ll show you how in Lego Robotics! Sessions run weekly from Jan 18th - May 16th, 2016.
Visit the Nerdies Robotics Class website
Hosted by Nerdies
509 West Spring Street, Suite 260 Fayetteville, AR 72701
Live Twitter Chat
Visit the Baltimore City Community College website
Hosted by Baltimore City Community College
2901 Liberty Road Baltimore, MD 21215
The world's largest robot competition, with over 50 different robot events - humanoids, sumo, fire fighting, combat, and more.
Visit the International RoboGames website
Hosted by Robotics Society of America
2100 Valley Ave., Pleasanton, CA 94566
Driven by an increasingly tech-savvy and mobile society, a growing aging population, and increasing healthcare costs, quality, and access challenges, healthcare continues to evolve and move outside of such centralized facilities as hospitals and clinics. Technological innovations have been a key enabler in the significant and growing opportunity to deliver new ways of care in skilled nursing and rehabilitative centers, the community and rural areas, home, workplace, etc. Join in the discourse. Goals of this forum: For attendees to inform and foster a dialog around these new ways of delivering and improving care and the opportunities for technological innovations using robotics to enable them. For industry (technology companies, healthcare providers, other organizations focused on the healthcare industry) and WPI researchers (faculty and students) to showcase their innovations to foster dialog and potential collaborations that could lead to commercialization.
Visit the Healthcare Delivery Institute at WPI presents Healthcare and Medical Robotics Innovation Forum website
Hosted by Healthcare Delivery Institute at WPI
60 Prescott Street Worcester, MA 01609
One Day camp on April 8th, from 8:30am-3:30pm. A full day of robotics, coding and engineering. Come and spend the day with us!
Visit the Bright & Smart Robotics website
Hosted by Bright & Smart
NW 82nd Ave Miami Lakes, FL 33016
Want to build the next self-driving car? Would you like to know how a robo-surgeon operates with perfect precision? Are you excited about programming a smart device like a robotic chef for your home? How about a robotic hockey player? If robotics excites you or you are just curious to know about robotics, join us at UNO on April 8, 2016 (Friday) to celebrate Robotics Week to engage in some fun-filled activities:
Visit the Robot Showcase Competition and Challenges website
Hosted by University of Nebraska Omaha
6001 Dodge Street Omaha, NE 68182
Visit the Peachtree District - Kennesaw Event website
1000 Chastain Road NW Kennesaw, GA 30114
Visit the Mid-Atlantic Robotics - Montgomery Event website
1016 Route 601 Skillman, NJ 08558
Visit the North Carolina FIRST Robotics State Championship website
9201 University City Blvd Charlotte, NC 28223
The longest continually operating robotics competition in the world! The National Robotics Challenge is designed to provide students of all ages and levels of study the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of manufacturing processes, controls, robotics and other technologies through competitive engineering contests. Students are judged on their application of technology principles, engineering concepts and their ability to solve real-world problems through a team approach. The National Robotics Challenge is designed to complement classroom instruction and provide students the opportunity to apply classroom knowledge in challenging and fun situations. Each contest is specifically designed to test the students’ skills and knowledge in a particular area of manufacturing, technology, robotics and automation. The event is open to any student in elementary, middle school, high school, or post-secondary school anywhere in the world. Last year over 1000 participants from 9 states competed in the NRC event. Our vision is to become the premier robotics competition for elementary, middle, high and post-secondary school students in the United States.
Visit the National Robotics Challenge website
Hosted by National Robotics Challenge
220 E. Fairground St. Marion, OH 43302
SWPA BotsIQ is an educational robotics competition for high school age students. It provides these students with a unique, hands-on experience that allows them to discover the possibilities of a career in the manufacturing sector, and other science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields.
Visit the Bots IQ website
Hosted by BotsIQ
250 University Ave, California, PA 15419
As a part of the Vermont Robot Rodeo our Pre-K thru 6th grade students are learning to use Scratch to program a Finch Bot
Visit the Finch Bot Training website
Hosted by CES
84 Grange Hall Road North Clarendon, VT 05759
Visit the FIRST Robotics Competition - Traverse City Event website
Hosted by John Failor
1150 Milliken Drive Traverse City, MI 49686
"Mapping, Localization, and Self-Driving Vehicles"
Visit the Mech. Eng. Seminar - Dr. John Leonard website
Hosted by University of Delaware
E. Delaware Street Newark, DE 19716
Our mission is to build human-centered principles and methods for designing robotic technologies. Come see what we are up to.
Visit the Wisconsin Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory Open Lab Event website
Hosted by University of Wisconsin–Madison
1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706
Make A Difference 2020 and the VA STEM Innovation Network are hosting a robotics competition for their Middle School robotics clubs in the Hampton Roads area. Each club will prepare their robot for the competition's challenge and compete with the other clubs the day of the event.
Visit the Vex IQ Robotics Competition website
Hosted by Make A Difference 2020 and the VA STEM Innovation Network
1701 Alsace Ave. Norfolk, VA 23509
This event will showcase current research and education efforts in IUB's School of Informatics and Computing through posters, live demonstrations, computer simulations and visualizations, and more. Come see what members of our community have been working on! This event is open to IU faculty, staff and students, anniversary attendees, as well as the broader Bloomington community.
Visit the Intelligent Interactive Systems Open House website
Hosted by Selma Sabanovic
919 E 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47408
Visit the Robofest Competition - University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy website
Hosted by Peter Guenther
8400 S Cambridge Detroit, MI 48221
Come join us on April 8th at 6:30pm to see iRobot give us a background on the newest innovations in robotics. This event is FREE and open to the public. Celebrate Robotics Week with one of the worldwide leaders in robotics. If that’s not enough to get you excited, we’ll be serving FREE pizza and refreshments! Book now; this event WILL fill up! Parents and kids are invited! Make sure you register all of the attendees who are expected to come, that way we order enough food!
Visit the iRobot demo at Empow Studios website
Hosted by Empow Studios
1776 Massachusetts Ave Lexington, MA 02152
Visit the Robofest Competition - Pearl City High School website
Hosted by Lynn Fujioka
2100 Hookiekie Street Pearl City, HI 96782
The Botball® Educational Robotics Program engages middle and high school aged students in a team-oriented robotics competition, and serves as a perfect way to meet today’s new common core standards. Students use science, engineering, technology, math, and writing skills to design, build, program, and document robots in a hands-on project.
Visit the Texas Regional Botball Tournament website
Hosted by Botball
901 Yorkchester Dr Houston, TX 77079
Full day of robot fun for the entire family. The 2016 Robot and Technology Expo is an opportunity for youth to demonstrate their knowledge, celebrate their accomplishments and interact with others who share their interest in robotics, programming, and all things tech. This event is open to all youth and the public at large. It consists of several competitions: VEX Skills Events, VEX Nothing But Net Competition, Robofest Game and Exhibition Events, a Scratch Programming Competition and a LEGO Building Competition. . Youth may participate in one or more events.There will also be free hands-on activities for families to enjoy..
Visit the 2016 Robot and Technology Expo website
Hosted by Lab:Revolution
5270 Flat River Rd. Park Hills, MO 63601
The Mini-Urban Challenge is a national competition sponsored by Doolittle Institute (DI), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and Special Operations Command (SOCOM). This competition challenges high school students to design and program a robotic vehicle that can autonomously navigate a mini-urban city, using a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 kit.
Visit the DC Regional Mini Urban Challenge website
Hosted by Mini Urban Challenge
7000 Adelphi Hyattsville, MD 20782
Every year, The Works Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota presents a special day of robotics fun for kids and adults to celebrate National Robotics Week. Our goal is to get kids excited about STEM fields. Robot Day typically has over 1,000 people attending, mainly families with school-age kids.
Hosted by The Works Museum
9740 Grand Avenue S. Minneapolis, MN 55420
Visit the Robofest Competition - Mineral Area College website
Hosted by Ann Boes
5270 Flat River Rd Park Hills, MO 63601
Visit the Robofest Competition - Brazoria Heritage Foundation website
Hosted by Margaret Baugh
205 N Nevada Brazoria, TX 77422
Visit the Robofest Competition - Canton Charter Academy website
Hosted by Bharat Ajmera
49100 Ford Road Canton, MI 48187
Visit the Robofest Competition - Achieve Charter Academy website
Hosted by Elizabeth Gaecke
3250 Denton Rd Canton, MI 48188
Visit the Robfoest Competition - Gallimore Elementary website
Hosted by Cara Wegrzyn
8375 N Sheldon Rd Canton, MI 48187
The Evergreen Robotics Challenge is an intra-district completion that engages students to create and program robots. School teams work on challenges using the Lego Mindstorms robotic platform to learn about coding, science, mathematics, and engineering. In addition to STEAM exposure, students practice creativity, cooperation, communication and critical thinking.
Visit the Evergreen School District Robotics Challenge website
Hosted by Manuel Munguia
2025 Clarice Dr. San Jose, CA 95122
Visit the FIRST Robotics Competition - Ann Arbor Event website
Hosted by Alberta Britton
Visit the FIRST Robotics Competition - Woodhaven Event website
Hosted by Ellen Pfafflin
Enjoy engineering, fun and robots during the 22nd annual Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Robot Competition! First-year engineering students at The Ohio State University will showcase their cornerstone design projects in the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Program (FEH) robot competition at the Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC). The university community and public are invited to watch student teams compete to see who has designed the best autonomous robot to meet the design competition specifications. The competition requires each team of three to four students to design, build and program an autonomous robot using creativity and engineering principles. A significant portion of their assignment involves planning, managing and documenting their work on the project.
Visit the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors Robot Competition website
Hosted by The Ohio State University College of Engineering
337 W 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210
This showcase event will not qualify to anything. The purpose of the event is to provide an opportunity for girls in the VEX Robotics program to be able to come together to celebrate their accomplishments, compete and meet new people. This event is only open to all girls VEX Robotics teams.
Visit the 2nd ANNUAL ALL GIRLS VEX SHOWCASE website
106 West Janss Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
Robotics Design Challenge is an event for K-8 youth, where they build LEGO-robots with a variety of sensors, and program them to accomplish a given task. The Challenge has been hosted annually since 2006 by the Center staff, in collaboration with K-12 teachers, 4-H and other community organizations. The goal is to introduce STEM skills at a an early age, and to motivate them to pursue science and engineering careers.
Visit the 11th Annual Robotics Design Challenge – 2016 website
Hosted by University of Missouri
Rollins Street Columbia, MO 65211
We meet every second Saturday of the month. We focus on autonomous robots. One of the oldest robotics societies in the world. http://rssc.org
Visit the Robotics Society of Southern California Monthly Meeting website
Hosted by RSSC
1331 Palo Verde Ave Long Beach, CA 90840
Hands on robotics demonstrations and mini competitions.
Visit the Bot Shop Learning Lab- Open House website
Hosted by HTownRobotDiva
7400 Gulf Freeway Houston, TX 77017
The Harvard College Friends of Scouting in conjunction with Spirit of Adventure (formerly Boston Minuteman) Council presents Merit Badge University (MBU) 2016. Merit Badges (MBs) are an important part of the Boy Scout Program. At MBU, Scouts may earn up to three MBs that are not typically available in a camp or troop setting.
Visit the Merit Badge University website
Hosted by Harvard Friends of Scouting
33 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02139
STEM Education Outreach event in its fourth year offering robotics, science, technology and engineering related expo with workshops, booths, displays and family activities free to the public. Participating organizations include the Aquarium of the Pacific, Algalita Marine Research, Long Beach Boy Scouts, Digital Revolution, and hosted by Shared Science
Visit the RoboTech Fest website
Hosted by Shared Science
5875 E. Appian Way Long Beach, CA 90803
Gulf Coast MakerCon Robotics Extravaganza will feature Southeast Combat Robotics Championship, FIRST youth robotics exhibit and hobby and commercial robotics displays. Preregistration is not required unless competing in Combot event. See website for details.
Visit the Gulf Coast MakerCon Robot Extravaganza! website
Hosted by Gulf Coast MakerCon
4800 U.S. 301 Tampa, FL 33610
First Robotics team 4187, the ROBORAMS, will be hosting a Robotics Expo on April 9th, 2016 in conjunction with Jefferson County 4-H. There will be Industrial robotics, Agricultural automation, Bomb squad robots, and more on display. There will be student led robotics competitions and learning opportunities for all ages.
Visit the Robotics Expo website
Hosted by Team 4187 ROBORAMS
7274 42nd and Broadway Mount Vernon, IL 62864
Come test your computer programming skills and compete with other Alabama students for cool prizes! A fun day is planned with educational experiences, food and social activities. The Alabama Robotics Competition is an event where students write programs that navigate their robot across a series of obstacle courses. Awards will be given out in several categories across multiple grade levels (elementary school, middle school, and high school). Dr. Nan Boden (Director of Engineering, Google) will be our Keynote Speaker! Please see the Schedule page for more details.
Visit the Alabama Robotics Contest website
Hosted by Department of Computer Science
240 Paul W Bryant Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
The Robotix Institute is hosting it's First Annual Robotics Festival at our San Gabriel, CA location. The Festival will focus on STEM education and have robots, workshops, displays and family activities free to the public.
5716 N Vista St San Gabriel, CA 91775
Rhode Island Robot Block Party, Pizzitola Center at Brown University, Providence See how robots are used in research, manufacturing, healthcare and education in Rhode Island. The Rhode Island Robot Block Party is a project of Rhode Island Students of the Future, a non-profit organization that promotes youth robotics, and the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative at Brown University. Participants include: Yushin America, Hasbro, igus, inc., Brown University, URI, Roger Williams University, FIRST, AIR 4-H, Rhode Island Computer Museum, Providence Children's Museum, Rhode Island Museum of Science and Art, FabNewport; and dozens of K-12 schools. This event is free and open to the public from 11 AM - 4 PM. Sponsored by National Grid, Textron Charitable Trust, Verizon Foundation, Polaris MEP, IEEE and igus, inc. Register for free tickets at: https://goo.gl/HOmkf0
Visit the Rhode Island Robot Block Party website
Hosted by Rhode Island Students of the Future
235 Hope Street Providence, RI 02906
Open hours for anyone to come and explore Robot Garden, community makerspace with robots!
Visit the Robot Garden Open Access website
Orlando Robotics & Makers Club hosts a monthly meeting the 2nd Saturday or every month at the Melrose Center (2nd floor of the downtown library) in Orlando, FL. Other than a few presentations, there's a show-and-tell segment where you can show off your cool projects. Topics include robots, robotics competitions, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ROS, electronics, and anything maker related. This event is free.
Visit the Orlando Robotics & Makers Club Monthly Meeting website
Hosted by Neil
101 E Central Blvd Orlando, FL 32801
Celebrate National Robotics Week 2016 with Quad City area FIRST Robotics teams and a robotics engineer from John Deere with a Baxter Research Robot! FLL Jr. Expo from 12:00-2:00. FLL, FTC, and FRC demonstrations from 12:00-3:00 pm.
Visit the 2016 Quad Cities National Robotics Week Celebration website
Hosted by The Quad Cities Engineering and Science Council (QCESC)
1717 W 12th St Davenport, IA 52804
Celebrate National Robotics Week at the library! Come see LEGO WeDo creations made by participants in our Junior First LEGO League, and then have fun learning how to make your own. We'll also have all sorts of other robotics and programming activities for you to try including Sphero Balls, Makey Makey's, and Little Bits! It'll be sure to be fun for the whole family.
Visit the Totally Rad Robotics Expo at the Library! website
Hosted by South Holland Public Library
16250 S Wausau Romeoville, IL 60445
http://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/industryday2016/ Industry representatives and individuals are invited to visit our facility to view demonstrations of technologies that we have developed and to learn how our staff can assist in applying cutting edge robotic capabilities to your areas of need. What Demonstration of NREC's latest robotics technology and systems Where NREC facilities, 10 40th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 When Saturday April 9, 2016 - from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Tours will last approximately 1 hour with a new group starting every 10 minutes Who Should Attend Engineering or R&D technical leads and managers who want to apply robotics to create a competitive advantage for their company or organization. Operations managers who want to explore whether robotics can solve some of their most difficult operations problems. Engineers and scientists interested in robotics in general. Registration Space is limited so register early to ensure access! Free Parking! Registration closes April 5, 2016
Visit the NREC Industry Day website
Hosted by NREC
10 40th Street Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Come play with Arduino-based robots, take apart a Roomba and see how it works, or control a Roomba from your computer! We'll also have a demo of a Turtlebot (http://www.turtlebot.com/) and Robot Operating System (ROS).
Visit the Robot Playground at the Makerspace website
Hosted by Anchorage Makerspace
1406 W 33rd Ave Anchorage, AK 99503
"Out of the lab and into our lives" presentation by Andra Keay, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics See a selection of videos of the latest research robots, (space robotics, soft robotics, microrobots, bioinspired robotics) and learn what technologies are actually leaving the lab and entering our lives in the latest robotic startups.
Visit the Intro to Robots website
The Human 5K is a family-friendly 5K race for individuals, families and teams. Dress up as a robot or bring your unique gadgets and enhancements for special prizes. OR register a robot for the Robot Race. This year’s Robot Race will feature three heats of robots: tele-operated, autonomous, and minis. Please review the attachments below for each for more details.
Visit the 2nd Annual Vecna Cares Robot Race and Human 5K website
Hosted by Vecna Cares
36 Cambridge Park Drive Cambridge, MA 02140
Visit the Greater Chicago Regional Botball website
5700 South Lake Shore Drive chicago, IL 60637
The MATE Center uses underwater robots – also known as remotely operated vehicles or ROVs – to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and prepare students for technical careers.
Visit the 2016 MATE Wisconsin Regional ROV Competition website
Hosted by MATE
600 E Greenfield Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53204
Learn to make robots!
Visit the Robots Rock One Day Workshop website
Hosted by Rolling Robots
10955 W. Pico Blvd West LA, CA 90064
NAO is a humanoid robot built by Aldebaran. He is cute, friendly and fully programmable. In this workshop, you'll discover NAO, his hardware and his software. Thanks to Choregraphe, the graphical user interface provided with NAO, you'll discover how to program the robot in an easy way. This event is a workshop for kids Once you'll be familiar with the programming logic, you'll write a story for NAO and you'll then have the opportunity to test your creation on a real robot. Sounds fun? Join us!
Visit the Tell us a story, NAO! website
Hosted by Devoxx4Kids USA
Celebrate National Robotics Week at Eden Prairie Center Mall, in Eden Prairie MN from 11am to 4pm on Sunday April 10th 2016. Come play "Krazy Kubes" and see robotics demonstrations by several 2016 FTC, FRC, and FLL robotics teams from around Minnesota. Stop by and get information on how YOU can start or join a robotics team in your area! This is a FREE event, but we encourage you to bring a canned food item for our PROP food drive! The LazyBotts would like to extend an invitation to all MN FTC teams to bring their robots to EP center for this event. They can have one table per team set up if teams want to come “show off” their robots, outreach activities, trophies, etc. and let people drive their bots via Bluetooth . Please contact Lazybotts@gmail.com to RSVP or more information.
Visit the Eden Prairie RoboFest 2016 website
Hosted by FTC Team #6389 - The Lazybotts
8251 Flying Cloud Dr Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Join us in celebrating National Robotics Week! Over 100 Notre Dame faculty, students, and community members will demonstrate interactive robotic exhibits from research labs and classrooms. Dance in the robot disco, play robot-hide-and-go seek, get your picture taken by a robot photographer, and watch arial robots fly around an ice rink. The event is free and open to the public.
Visit the 5th Annual Notre Dame National Robotics Week Event (ND-NRW) website
Hosted by Notre Dame College of Engineering
100 Compton Family Ice Arena Notre Dame, IN 46556
Watch the world of aeromodelling and robotics come to life before your eyes! Explore the inner workings of robots and learn how R/C planes and drones are flown. Witness drones take flight inside the hangar Assemble and take home your own airplane model See a variety of scale model airplanes and military aircraft Meet BB-8 and R2-D2 from Star Wars Learn how to maneuver radio-controlled planes Watch helicopter, aerobatic and control line demos Observe an R/C jet engine demonstration (weather permitting) And more!
Visit the Aerobotics at the Hangar website
Hosted by Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum
7711 E Academy Blvd Denver, CO 80230
FIRST LEGO League Jr. teams are about to learn that throwing something in the trash is only the beginning. In the 2015-2016 WASTE WISESM Challenge, over 34,500 children ages 6 to 9 from 18 countries will look at trash in a whole new way. From reducing, to reusing, to recycling, and beyond, find out what making trash really means. This Expo will be the culmination of the season for Jr. FIRST LEGO League teams as they come together to share what they have learned and created this season.
Visit the Central Illinois Jr. FLL Expo website
Hosted by Kyle Blais
5250 Shepherd Road Springfield, IL 62794
For five years the Computer Science and Engineering labs at the University of Notre Dame have worked hard to organize a National Robotics Week Event. This event brings together researchers, educators, students, and community members who all share a passion for robotics, and look forward to sharing their passion with the public! The public is encouraged to come and “play” with the robots from dancing to sorting legos, to playing football, there will be a variety of robots exhibited at this event. This interactive event is free and open to the public.
Visit the Notre Dame National Robotics Week Event website
Hosted by University of Notre Dame
WELCOME to the Montana TSA VEX/TSA Robotics event, the TSA VEX event has the same action-packed experience of all VEX events but the format is modified to enable team members to participate in other TSA conference competitions and events. This VEX Robotics Competition is being held as part of the 2016 Montana TSA State Leadership Conference. Information about this year's conference can be found at http://www.montanatsa.org
Visit the Montana TSA State VEX Robotics Event website
308 6th Avenue North Billings, MT 59101
Launched in New York City in May 2015, RoboUniverse is the premier conference and expo dedicated to the service robotics industry. RoboUniverse New York features focused tracks on Cognitive Science and IoT, Drones for Business, Manufacturing & Logistics, and Robots for Enterprise. The program will also delve into Business & Investment, Legal, Education, and IoT & Robotics.
Visit the RoboUniverse New York website
Hosted by Rising Media
655 W 34th St New York, NY 10001
An unsuspecting group of high school students will be introduced to BotsIQ, build and battle Sumo-bots at TechShop, and tour the Human Engineering Robotics Lab at PITT and lunch with the roboticists.
Visit the Bot-All Royale website
Hosted by Innovation Works and TechShop
192 Bakery Square Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Join your fellow Droniacs at TechShop Detroit's Drone meet-up. Meet industry professionals, drone enthusiasts and others who are interested in how they can join the drone movement. Bring in your drones to show off or bring you designs for the drone you haven't started yet. The sky is the limit with this group!
Visit the Drone Meet-Up website
Hosted by Tech Shop Detroit
800 Republic Allen Park, MI 48101
Visit the FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship website
124 Goodman Drive Bethlehem, PA 18015
Visit the Peachtree District FIRST State Championship website
Hosted by Georgia FIRST
100 Smith St Athens, GA 30602
Please join FANUC America on April 13-14, 2016, for an Open House and Technology Workshop, to celebrate the opening of our new Seattle office! This exciting event will offer a number of unique learning opportunities and exclusive FANUC product presentations. Lunch and refreshments will be provided -
Visit the FANUC Seattle Open House and Technology Workshop website
Hosted by FANUC
301 30th St. NE Auburn, WA 98002
A meet & greet for Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics students and local robotics organizations.
Visit the Robot Ex Machina website
Hosted by Robotics Institute & the Pittsburgh Robotics Council
5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Visit the Michigan FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship website
Hosted by Marjie Jenkins
2500 Turner Ave NW Grand Rapids, MI 49544
Visit all the robotics research labs at USC Viterbi School of Engineering to see cutting-edge advancements in societally relevant robotics in health care, rescue, and robot cooperation. Free and open to the public. http://rasc.usc.edu/roboticsopenhouse/
Visit the USC Viterbi Robotics Open House website
Hosted by VAST: Viterbi Adopt-a-School, Adopt-a-Teacher
3710 McClintock Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781
Visit the 2016 NC TSA State Conference VEX IQ Tournament website
3121 W Gate City Blvd Greensboro, NC 27407
Visit the PA-TSA MS VEX IQ Competition--National TSA Qualifier website
777 Waterwheel Drive Seven Springs, PA 15622
Yaskawa Motoman, a leading robotics company in the Americas, is hosting educational events at our facility in Miamisburg on Thursday, April 14. Ideal for middle school, high school and continuing education students who are interested in robotics and automation technology. Visits will include a tour of our robotics lab to see and interact with live demonstrations. Students will have the opportunity to talk to engineers and technicians regarding automation and career opportunities. Student groups of all sizes. Registration is required.
Visit the Give Students a Real-World Robotics Experience website
Hosted by Yaskawa Motoman
100 Automation Way Miamisburg, OH 45342
The VEX IQ Challenge, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, is a brand new STEM program for elementary and middle school students (ages 8-14). Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, will build a robot using the VEX IQ robotics platform to solve an engineering challenge that is presented in the form of a game. VEX IQ Challenge teams will work together scoring points in Teamwork Matches, and also display their robot’s skills individually in driver controlled and autonomous Skills Challenges.
Visit the Texas TSA National VEX IQ Quailifier Event website
Hosted by TSA Vex IQ
100 Washington Avenue Waco, TX 76701
This tournament is the High School qualifying tournament for the National TSA VEX Tournament in Nashville, TN. It is a SKILLS ONLY tournament. Only Skills Awards will be given. This is the ONLY tournament that teams can compete in to qualify for the National TSA VEX Tournament.
Visit the Texas TSA National VEX Quailifier Event website
Visit the 2016 NC TSA State Conference VEX Tournament website
PA-TSA VEX HS Competition - National TSA Qualifier Nothing But Net - skills only competition National TSA Qualifier Top 3 teams will qualify to attend the National TSA VEX competition
Visit the PA-TSA VEX Competition-National TSA Qualifier website
Visit the Indiana FIRST State Championship website
Hosted by Indiana FIRST
200 N. Apperson Way Kokomo, IN 46901
A School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture: Ivan Sutherland, Computer Graphics Pioneer Marc Robert, Co-founder and President of Boston Dynamics Inc.
Visit the Teruko Yata Memorial Lecture in Robotics website
Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
To make transfer to applications in everyday domains robots require the ability to cope with novelty, incomplete information, and uncertainty. In this talk I will describe a line of work carried out over ten years that provides methods to tackle this. I will examine two problems: object search and grasping.
Visit the GRASP Special Seminar: Jeremy Wyatt, University of Birmingham, "Robots in Our World: Uncertain, Incomplete and Unfamiliar" website
Hosted by UPenn GRASP Lab
3330 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104
As part of Vermont's first Robot Rodeo, Randolph Union is hosting a BB-8 robot. Students can practice using Tickle to code BB-8 and get him ready for the Robot Rodeo in May.
Hosted by Randolph Union High School
15 Forest Street Randolph, VT 05060
Visit the Robofest Competition - Ford Career Technical Center website
Hosted by Zachary MacLean
36455 Marquette Westland, MI 48185
Visit the New England FIRST Robotics District Championship website
1 Civic Center Plaza Hartford, CT 06120
Robots are increasingly becoming a part of our daily lives, from the automated vacuum cleaners in our homes to the rovers exploring Mars. However, while recent years have seen dramatic progress in the development of affordable, general-purpose robot hardware, the capabilities of that hardware far exceed our ability to write software to adequately control.
Visit the Spring 2016 GRASP Seminar Series: George Konidaris, Duke University, "Robots, Skills, and Symbols" website
Lab stops may include: - Ballot: an omnidirectional balancing robot - CoBot and the soccer robots - Quadcopter docking - Amazon Picking Challenge
Visit the Robotics Institute Lab Tours website
Hosted by Robotics Institute
Demos will include: Snake robots Online modeling and flight adaptation by micro air vehicles to high-speed wind (via fans) Coordinated flight with a team of micro air vehicles ADA (Assistive Dextrous Arm) 3D Printing with Added-in COTS Components Girls of Steel Autonomous flight of a coaxial flying robot
Visit the Planetary Robotics Lab Demonstrations website
Participants will race autonomous vehicles ("Mobile roBOTs") they have built along a slalom-type course.
Hosted by Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science
Advances in VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) design and fabrication have resulted in the availability of low-cost, low-power, small-sized devices that have significant computational power and are able to communicate wirelessly. In addition, advances in MEMS (Micro Electric Mechanical Systems) technology have resulted in wide availability of solid-state sensors and actuators. The net result is ubiquitous sensing, communication, and computation that can be incorporated into small low-power devices.
Visit the UTRC CDS Seminar: Joao Hespanha, "Control systems in ubiquitous computation and communication" website
Hosted by Maryland Robotics Center
Campus Drive College Park, MD 20742
Learn how EPFL in Lausanne is making robots that are the pencils of tomorrow’s classroom - and try them yourself. This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival! - See more at:
Visit the The Classroom of Tomorrow, Swarm Robots in Education website
Hosted by swissnex
420 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02138
Visit the New Mexico Regional Botball Tournament website
1780 E University Ave Las Cruces, NM 88003
Visit the Northern California Botball Tournament website
Zook Road Moffett Field, CA 94035
Enter a robot or come watch! Previous years saw teams from many of Colorado's colleges and universities challenged to courses to simulate the challenges that the Mars rovers experience every day. High school teams and folks with general interests in robotics can also get involved.
Visit the NASA's Colorado Space Grant Consortium Presents: The Robotics Challenge website
Hosted by Colorado space Grant Consortium
Highway 150 Alamosa, CO 81101
Visit the Robofest Competition - Urban STEM website
Hosted by Monique Micheaux
1990 Airport Houston, TX 77051
Visit the Robofest Competition - Western Campus WCCCD website
Hosted by Gwen Shannon
9555 Haggerty Road Belleville, MI 48111
Visit the New Jersey TSA State Conference (High School VEX Competition) website
2000 Pennington Road Ewing, NJ 08628
Welcome to the Mason City-Waukee Co-Host VEX Robotics Tournament. The intent and prupose of the tournament is for non-World qualifying teams to have one last opportunity to compete in the Nothing But Net game. The centralized location in Iowa should encourage middle school teams and new teams to participate in tournament play one more time this season. Awards will be given, though there are no advancement opportunities.
Visit the Mason City-Waukee Co-Hosts website
655 SE University Ave Waukee, IA 50263
Game day of Get Excited About Robotics (GEAR) LEGO robotics competition for elementary and middle school students. Over 700 participants from West Texas have been designing their robots to accomplish this year's Timewarp challenge autonomously since mid February. They are now competing for the highest score and other awards. Registration for the event has closed but spectators are welcome.
Visit the Get Excited About Robotics website
Hosted by Whitacre College of Engineering
Main Street and Indiana Ave Lubbock, TX 79409
Roborodentia is an annual autonomous robotics competition at Cal Poly held during Cal Poly Open House in April. The event draws over 1000+ spectators and over 15 robot entries and teams on a yearly basis. Because of its unique challenges, this event attracts roboticists from a variety of communities -- Cal Poly students, industry members, alumni, and other universities.
Visit the Roborodentia website
Hosted by Cal Poly
1 Grand Ave San Luis Obispo, Ca 93407
High school students build walking robots and compete down an obstacle course for time. They also have to submit a written report and make an oral presentation to a group of judges made up of members of the local engineering community.
Visit the The IEEE Robot Challenge website
Hosted by IEEE Baltimore Section
1415 Key Highway Baltimore , MD 21230
SeaPerch is an innovative underwater robotics program that equips teachers and students with the resources they need to build an underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) in an in-school or out-of-school setting. Students build the ROV from a kit comprised of low-cost, easily accessible parts, following a curriculum that teaches basic engineering and science concepts with a marine engineering theme. The SeaPerch Program provides students with the opportunity to learn about robotics, engineering, science, and mathematics (STEM) while building an underwater ROV as part of a science and engineering technology curriculum. Throughout the project, students will learn engineering concepts, problem solving, teamwork, and technical applications.
Visit the NJ SeaPerch website
201 Mullica Hill Rd Glassboro, NJ 08028
The Gulf Coast Regional SeaPerch Challenge brings middle and high school students from all across the Mississippi and Louisiana southern region together to compete in three different SeaPerch events: Two water competitions and one poster competition. SeaPerch is a student constructed remotely controlled underwater robot that engages the minds and hearts of students as they seek to make meaningful connections between science content and engineering principles related to underwater exploration. Young and old get excited about building and playing with robots. The SeaPerch design is cost-efficient and "reusable" allowing schools and independent organizations to adopt this program. Most importantly, SeaPerch allows teachers and mentors to excite and create a sense of wonder and curiosity for middle and high school students as they meet and exceed mastery of National and State Science Standards including the new Next Generation Science Standards.
Visit the SeaPerch Gulf Coast Regional Challenge website
Hosted by Gulf Coast SeaPerch
1384 Father Ryan Blvd Biloxi, MS 39530
Visit the Tidewater Regional Challenge SeaPerch website
Hosted by SeaPerch Tidewater
570 McLawhorne Dr, Newport News, VA 23601
This division uses the LEGO Mindstorm/EV3 Robotics Systems as the competition platform.
Visit the CSM LEGO ROBOTICS CHAMPIONSHIP website
Hosted by College of Souther Maryland
8730 Mitchell Road La Plata, MD 20646
Fuel Your Curiosity at the 2016 Expo with over 3000 fun, hands-on science and engineering activities! From nanotechnology to space exploration, activities will cover a wide array of scientific and engineering disciplines. Two days will not be enough to explore it all! - See more at: http://www.usasciencefestival.org/2016-festival/exhibitors.html#sthash.n4APEx22.dpuf
Visit the USA Science & Engineering Festival website
Hosted by USA Science & Engineering Festival
801 Mt Vernon Pl NW Washington, DC 20001
Kids team up with their adults to build and code a working LEGO robot! Program Room
Visit the Barrington Area Library website
Hosted by Barrington Area Library
505 N. Northwest Highway Barrington, IL 60010
Using copper tape and LEDs, create your own artistic light up cards, paper models, and more. This program uses small button batteries and is not suitable for young children.
Visit the Paper Circuits in the Idea Hub website
Hosted by MIT Museum
265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139
Prepare yourself...for a Carnival of the Sciences! See, touch, smell, hear, and taste science in new and exciting ways. Are you ready?
Visit the Science Carnival & Robot Zoo! website
Hosted by Cambridge Science Festival
449 Broadway St Cambridge, MA 02138
Meet robot makers, enthusiasts and professionals and see robots on display and in action. See examples of underwater, climbing and flying robots, drive a robot and watch a 3D printer create parts. Learn about the various robotics programs available to youth K-12 – FIRST (www.usfirst.org), VEX, MATE and more. Also learn about upcoming robotics competitions – the MATE Underwater ROV Competition, the ISEC Space Elevator Robotics Competition (www.isec.org/sec) and others. Visit our Resources table for information about classes, clubs and workshops.
Visit the Robotics Open House website
Hosted by Swerve Robotics Club
17105 Avondale Road NE Woodinville, WA 98072
Visit the Robofest Competition - Lego Legion 4H website
Hosted by Srinivas Bommidi
2100 Pontiac Lake Road Building 41 West Waterford, MI 48328
The world has changed dramatically in the last ten years since the Cambridge Science Festival began. Hear from ten different researchers as they reflect on developments in their fields over the last ten years. Find out what scientists now know about memory, gravitational waves, CRISPR, exoplanets, robotics, and more. As you’d expect, each presenter will convey their exciting overview in just ten minutes! Cash bar available. Free.
Visit the Worthy of AtTENtion: 10 years in 10 minutes website
RoboCupJunior is a robotics competition for elementary to high school students. RoboCupJunior leagues are soccer, search and rescue, and OnStage (on-stage robotics performance).
Visit the RoboCupJunior USA website
Hosted by RoboCupJunior USA, Inc.
231 W 246th St Bronx, NY 10471
1800 South Brand Blvd. #101 Glendale , CA 91204
700 Silver Spur Road #101 Palos Verdes, CA 90274
You must purchase tickets to attend. This workshop is for anyone who has never played around with Arduino before and those who have played around a little bit but aren’t entirely sure about how the basics work. It’s easier than you think! We will put together basic single component electrical circuits, learn about analog and digital, input and output, basic programming concepts, practice very basic Serial communication, and briefly cover basic virtual prototyping.
Visit the Arduino Workshop website
Hosted by Lowell Makes
115 Merrimack Street Lowell, MA 01852
In the Museum's Idea Hub, create a unique chain reaction contraption that mixes virtual technology (using Scratch and LEGO WeDos) with physical items such as ramps, string, tape, and motors. Visitors will work in teams to design and build a parts of a contraption with the aim of connecting all the links together to create a large chain reaction contraption!
Visit the Chain Reaction Design Lab: Linking the Virtual to the Physical website
Hands-On Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Activities For Families
Visit the Super Science Day website
Hosted by Dakota Science Center
1122 7th Ave South Grand Forks, ND 58201
The NASA Swarmathon is a challenge to develop cooperative robotics to revolutionize space exploration. The First Annual Swarmathon, will occur April 18-22, 2016 at NASA Kennedy Space Center. Students from Minority Serving Universities and Community Colleges are encouraged to apply and compete. Students will be challenged to develop search algorithms for robotic swarms. Swarmathon participation will (1) improve student’s skills in robotics and computer science and (2) further advance technology for future NASA space exploration missions.
Visit the NASA Swarmathon website
Hosted by NASA
SR 405 Cape Canaveral, FL 32899
Intro to Robotics & Programming with LEGO WeDo (G K-1)
Visit the Einstein's Workshop Robotics website
Hosted by Einstein's Workshop
25 Adams Street Burlington, MA 01803