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VEX Robotics Competition – Sack Attack

Copyright 2012. VEX Robotics, Inc.

VEX Robotics Competition – Sack Attack

Table of Contents
Section 1 – Introduction Section 2 – The Game Section 3 – The Tournament Section 4 – The Robot 1 3 11 16

Copyright 2012. VEX Robotics, Inc.

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S E C T I O N

Introduction
Overview
This section providesan introduction to VEX Sack Attack and the VEX Robotics Competition.

The VEX Robotics Competition
The world needs the students of today to become the scientists, engineers, and problem solving leaders of tomorrow. The constant breakthroughs in chemistry, medicine, materials and physics reveal a new set of challenges and create an even greater opportunity for problem solving through technology.These problems are not academic; the solutions could help save the world and those technology problem solvers will be the ones to make it possible. This underscores the dramatic challenge we face: there are not enough high school graduates choosing technology related disciplines in college. This does not reflect a lack of capacity for new students on the part of technical schools anduniversities, but a lack of interested and qualified applicants. In short, we will not have the people we require in the next generation to solve the problems of tomorrow unless the shortage is directly addressed today. Who will solve the world’s next great crisis? Recognizing this dilemma, scores of organizations are creating programs designed to attract and engage young students in the study of science andtechnology. Many have found that robotics is a very powerful platform to attract and hold the attention of today’s multi-tasking, connected youths. Robotics has strong appeal to this intensely competitive generation and represents the perfect storm of applied physics, mathematics, computer programming, digital prototyping and design, integrated problem solving, teamwork and thought leadership.Students with a previously undiscovered aptitude for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) curriculum are flourishing in growing numbers due to the efforts of schools, volunteer organizations, corporations, and governments internationally. The VEX Robotics Competition, operated by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, is a program that inspires thousands of students worldwideto pursue STEM-related education and career paths. While there are many quality robotics competitions worldwide, the VEX Robotics user community has overwhelmingly demanded new challenges that are easy and economical to host and implement. The VEX Robotics Design System helps takes the inspiration from the competition to the next level. The system is used as a classroom robotics platform designedto nurture creative advancement in robotics and knowledge of STEM education. VEX provides teachers and students with an affordable, robust, and stateof-the-art robotics system suitable for classroom use and the playing field. VEX’s innovative use of premanufactured and easily formed structural metal, intuitive mechanical parts combined with a powerful range of user-programmable microprocessorsfor control, leads to infinite design possibilities. For more information visit www.vexrobotics.com. Follow us on Twitter @VEXRobotics. Like Us on facebook at www.facebook.com/vexrobotics Visit RobotEvents.com for more information on the VEX Robotics Competition, including team registration, event listings and results and more.

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VEX Sack Attack – A Primer
VEX Sack Attack is played on a 12 ft x 12 ft foam-mat, surrounded by a sheet-metal and lexan perimeter. There are ten goals of varying height, which teams can score sacks into. The field is divided by the goals, with openings below to allow for robot passage. For more details and specific game-play rules, please see Section 2 – The Game....