Botball and Botfest tournament at UMass Lowell.
UMass Lowell will host its annual Botfest/Botball events in honor of National Robotics Week, which runs through April 18 and is organized by iRobot Corp., the Technology Collaborative and other corporate and educational partners around the country, including Georgia Tech, MIT, University of Southern California and University of Pennsylvania. At UMass Lowell, 19 teams from middle and high schools across New Hampshire and Massachusetts will compete in Botball, a high-spirited, fast-paced contest.
Student teams create robots designed to perform tasks completely on their own, with no remote control.Botfest is a non-competitive exhibition of interactive, build-it-yourself robots and animatronics by inventors of all ages and includes demonstrations by students from UMass Lowell and other schools, corporate groups and the community. For more information, check out www.botfest.org and www.botball.org.
Teams competing in the Botball tournament include:
- Andover Robotics Club, Andover, MA
- Ashland High School, Ashland, MA
- CHS Robotics Team, Chelmsford, MA
- Garfield Middle School, Revere, MA
- Greater Lowell Technical High School, Tyngsboro, MA
- Guilmette Middle School, Lawrence, MA
- Haverhill Robotics, Haverhill, MA
- Innovation Academy, Tyngsboro, MA
- Littleton Middle School, Littleton, MA
- Malden Catholic High School, Malden, MA
- Merrimack Valley Home Schoolers, Billerica, MA
- Nashoba Valley Technical High School, Westford, MA
- Needham High School, Needham, MA
- Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
- Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury, MA
- Sanborn Regional High School, Kingston, NH
- WB Rogers Middle School, Hyde Park, MA
- Wellesley High School, Wellesley, MA
- West Middle School, Andover, MA
Teams participating in the Botfest exhibition include:
- Friends of Grace, Coop, Chelmsford, MA
- Hanf Homeschool, MA
- Hanover Middle School, Hanover, MA
- Innovation Academy, Worcester, MA
- Silver Hill Horace Mann Charter School, Haverhill, MA
- St. Roberts, Andover, MA
- Stoklosa Middle School, Lowell, MA
- Sullivan Middle School, Lowell, MA
- Sullivan Middle School, Worcester, MA
- Wetherbee Middle School, Lawrence, MA
