CRC Robotics' Competition
CRC's History
Founded in 2001, a group of young professionals and teachers, they created an annual, multi-disciplinary, competition that uses: science, mathematics, computers, arts, and languages in an event opened to high school and CEGEPs across Canada. Now a non-profit organization, run by former participants, this three day eventshowcases skills in themed kiosk building, website design, video production, robotic design and construction, promoting bilingualism, team work, and equity. They also organize other events in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) aimed at including marginalized communities.
The Game: FLIP 2020
The object of the game is to get the most points. To do that you need to get bean bags dropped into your team's coloured pail. Two pairs of robots, representing team Yellow and team Blue, race across the playing field to be the first to trigger the start of the conveyor belt. By pressing a flap into a metal plate. A red bean bag then drops onto the conveyor, traveling down one side or the other, and falling into one of the coloured pails. But...every 30 seconds, the conveyor FLIPS direction. To maximize the amount of bean bags in your team's pail, you must hit, slide, turn, or touch different corresponding colour obstacles on the playing field called ""actuators"" in order to flip the conveyor direction, change speed of the conveyor, change rate of the bean bag drop, allow for a black bean bag to drop, worth more points, or pause the conveyor belt to pause altogether.
