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The pandemic might have hijacked headlines for now, but climate change is still a huge challenge for humanity. So it’s only fitting that the international World Robot Olympiad theme this year is Climate Squad. At WRO2020-X, our international online event in November, students get to practice skills that can help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges. Missions for the ‘Regular’ challenges will be announced during the event. Participants then get 24hrs to submit a short video of their robot solving the challenge.

WRO teams can register directly online. Teams can be of 1, 2 or 3 students. WRO Canada will publish an event calendar on wro2020canada.org containing links to all events, and live streams.
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2020 WRO-USA National Invitational Tournament will be held September 12th-13th, 2020, ONLINE!

Our tournament will be held LIVE using remote technology (Zoom). The event is open to all, no qualification required.

We are allowing team size of just 1 to 3 students ages 6-19 to encourage social distancing. Please visit our website to learn more!

https://www.wro-foundation.org/2020-registration/907-2/

Big companies, start-ups, investors and city planners all see the potential in self-driving vehicles. To keep WRO challenges relevant, WRO Association launched Future Engineers, a new category and a pilot competition that's all about autonomous driving.

"It forces the students to do something new and very different from existing WRO categories: They start looking for computer vision and advanced decision making approaches by using machine learning," says game developer Alexander Kolotov.

Find out more about the concept: https://wro-association.org/news/detail/students-to-program-self-driving-cars

Students to program self-driving cars Autonomous driving is a mega trend of our time. To keep WRO challenges relevant, we've launched Future Engineers, a new category that's all about autonomous driving.

Nation of Makers virtual conference (NOMCON) is an annual gathering to provide maker leaders an opportunity to learn from and collaborate with peers.

On June 5th, Alex Crooks of WRO USA led a presentation at the Nation of Makers virtual conference. Our premium partner Juniper Networks provided attendees with access to the film ME & MY ROBOT before/after the session.

The focus of the presentation was the landscape of youth robotics competitions and how the maker community could help students develop STEM capabilities. The presentation included clips from the film and a software demonstration where attendees could try programming a virtual robot.

NOMCON 2020: View more about this event at NOMCON 2020

An introduction to some of the aspects of WRO Regular Category challenges you will need to take into consideration when thinking about how to score points.

For more lessons, please visit our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Iciw8STMmR-fp9cijJYaA

WROBoards An introduction to some of the aspects of WRO Regular Category challenges you will need to take into consideration when thinking about how to score points.

Here we are talking about "Proportional Line Following"

For more lessons, please visit our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Iciw8STMmR-fp9cijJYaA

Proportional Line Following

In this lesson, we are going to talk about how to use line following and loop exits to tell your robot where to turn at an intersection.

https://youtu.be/RzIm0kq3TSc

WROSkillsIntersections How to use line following and loop exits to tell your robot where to turn at an intersection. Also, why it is important to let people see that programming in...

2 phase line following algorithm:
This lesson covers reflected light and building a basic line follower

For more videos, please visit our YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Iciw8STMmR-fp9cijJYaA

WROSkillsIntro Introduction to the WRO Skills Course which will be on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Let's learn about Color Sensors!

https://youtu.be/QwTCAbn8Sow

Color The basics of how the color sensor works.

Introduction to Sensors! Happy coding :)

https://youtu.be/MoOv8034vtI

Sensors1Ultrasonic How to use an ultrasonic sensor to make a robot vacum that doesnt get stuck on walls.

Do you want to understand how a robot vacuum cleaners work?

Join us and learn about "loops"

https://youtu.be/tqfFXvTOpM0

Loops2 @ more important attributes of loops, and a challenge.

The basics of loops: how to program your robot to repeat movements!

https://youtu.be/fm4R701L3SA

Loops1 The basics of what a loop block does, and how it interacts with move blocks.

Stacking move blocks to make a basic algorithm!
https://youtu.be/nb0aBQSZXNI

MoveBlock2

Learn the basics of Move Blocks:

1. Steering: left, right or straight
2. Power: speed & forward or backwards
3. Rotations

Happy coding!

https://youtu.be/EZRZWZBgWzM

MoveBlock1 The very basics of getting a robot to move.

Come join us in a series of free virtual robotics lessons.
https://youtu.be/NmdGvKtU1DA

You will need 2 pieces of software, the Virtual Robotics Toolkit (VRT), and the programming environment.
The VRT can be found here:
https://www.virtualroboticstoolkit.com/download_links

This license code will activate your 60 day trial:
3772-5152-9179-7961

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The programming environment can be found here:

Windows Version:
https://education.lego.com/en-us/downloads/mindstorms-ev3/software

Mac Version:
https://education.lego.com/en-us/downloads/retiredproducts/mindstorms-ev3-lab/software

Software Installation Guide You will need 2 pieces of software, the Virtual Robotics Toolkit (VRT), and the programming environment. The VRT can be found here: https://www.virtualroboti...

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