Grandville’s new robotics competition center continues to expand the competitive robotics programs for middle school students! This winter students in Grandville Public Schools can choose to compete with RECF Aerial Drones, Square One Underwater Rovers, MultiGP Racing Drones, or Ultimate Combat Robots.
We will start our annual RECF Aerial Drones teams in January, where students program learn to program and fly drones on a full-size competition field. This year’s challenge has teamwork, piloting, and autonomous flight challenges. RECF Aerial Drones teams will program and practice in January, and compete in February and March.
Our middle school kids will finally get to do underwater drones! We have pool time and we have ordered a new supply of parts. Where else can you have fun making things the race underwater and collect and deploy game pieces at depths of 10-12 feet? Students learn about underwater propulsion and navigation – and discover buoyancy! These teams will build in January and February and compete in March.
Drone racing is fast and fun – and we’ll be starting aerial drone racing for middle school students. With competition drones moving more than 70mph and immersive first-person-video, these drones make video games feel so 1970. Drone racing starts in February and our pilots will compete in April and May. This is a once-a-week activity, so it will fit alongside any of our other robotics programs.
“Battlebots” comes to Grandville this year, and middle school students who have done VEX robotics this year will be the first to have the opportunity to build and battle in our Ultimate Robot Combat cages. This program will get organized in February and compete in May.
To register a Grandville Middle School student for one of these programs, click here: https://bit.ly/411EzCM
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