The ACT RoboCup Junior competition is open to all schools in the ACT and Southern NSW region.

Event 2013

This year's Regional event will be held at Australian National University.

Where: Melville Hall, Australian National University
When: 22 August 2013
Time: 8:30am to 3:00pm - 4:00pm (Doors open @ 8:00am)
Students need to bring their own food and water.

Categories for 2013

Junior Dance
Senior Dance
Rescue
Rescue Premier
Novice League Soccer (LEGO)
Open League Soccer

RCJA National Challenge - 20th/21st/22nd September 2013, UQ Centre, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane QLD (TBC)

Registration

Registrations will open Week 9 Term 2 2013

All team members must bring a copy of the Media Release form on the day of the competition.

RCJA_Media_Release_Deed.pdf

Regional Event Results - 2012

Novice Soccer - 1st Place: BundahStorm (Narrabundah College), 2nd Place: Holy Spirit FC (Holy Spirit Catholic School), 3rd Place: SFX 10 Two (Saint Francis Xavier College, 4th Place: Harrison Soccer (Harrison School)

Open Soccer - 1st Place: Project 51 (Saint Francis Xavier School), 2nd Place: SFXFC (Saint Francis Xavier School), 3rd Place: RadBot (Radford College), 4th Place: Antibody (St Mary MacKillop College)

Junior Dance - 1st Place: On the Loose (Home Education Hencast), 2nd Place: Connection (Kaleen Primary School), 3rd Place: Party Rockers (Kaleen Primary School)

Junior Dance Theatre - 1st Place: The Funky Ice-Cream (Gib Gate School), 2nd Place: Fully Sick Bro (Gib Gate School), 3rd Place: 4 Gold 2 (St Gregorys Queanbeyan)

Senior Dance - 1st Place: 9 One (Saint Francis Xavier School), 2nd Place: 10 Two (Saint Francis Xavier School), 3rd Place: LEX (Saint Francis Xavier School)

Senior Dance Theatre - 1st Place: Hard Rock Robotics (CSIRO Green Machine)

Junior Rescue - 1st Place: Robotic Rice (Saint Francis Xavier School), 2nd Place: Grammar 4 (Canberra Boys Grammar), 3rd Place: Bobs your Jolly Uncle (Kaleen Primary School)

Premier Rescue - 1st Place: Nobody (St Mary MacKillop College), 2nd Place: Marist 3 (Marist College Canberra), 3rd Place: Anybody (St Mary MacKillop College)

Event 2011 Results

Novice Soccer - 1st Place: Bundah Storm (Narrabundah College), 2nd Place: Holy Spirit Novice (Holy Spirit School), 3rd Place: Botchester United (Amaroo School)

Open League Soccer - 1st Place: Haxxor (St. Mary MacKillop College), 2nd Place: Holy Spirit United (Holy Spirit School), 3rd Place: Holy Spirit City (Holy Spirit School)

Soccer Encouragement: Team Oxymoron (Saint Francis Xavier)

Junior Dance - 1st Place: The Dancing Nacho Chips (Gib Gate), 2nd Place: Connectors (Kaleen Primary), 3rd Place: The B.O.B.S! (Kaleen Primary)

Senior Dance - 1st Place: F.R.O.G (CSIRO Green Machine), 2nd Place: Caught in the Act (Blue Gum Community School)

Dance Encouragement: Rio (Gib Gate)

Rescue - 1st Place: G5 (Canberra Grammar School), 2nd Place: BobyFred (Canberra Grammar School), 3rd Place: G2 (Canberra Grammar School)

Premier Rescue - 1st Place: G3 (Canberra Grammar School), 2nd Place: Doom Buggy (St. Mary MacKillop College), 3rd Place: M1 (Marist College)

Rescue Encouragement: The Pitterpot Mk 2 (Kaleen Primary)
 

Where to start

Well if you are reading this, you are at the right place. This site has information to get you started. You will find information on how to compete in all the events in RoboCup Junior in event webpages. In the Resource Centre you find tips for your robots and constructing equipment. Rescue and Soccer have their own resource pages. If you would like some 'hands on' help, volunteers will come out to your school and give you a hand. There are also opportunities to attend workshops. These are run on a demand basis so if you are interested please contact us. 

You can contact Mr Gerard Elias for additional information on (02) 6258 1055 or gerard.elias@sfx.act.edu.au

Workshops

• When: 27th March, 2013
• Start: 9:30am
• Finish: Approximately 2:30pm
• Where: St. Francis Xavier College, Barnard Circuit, Florey ACT 2615
  
• Cost: $50 per school (Teacher)

• Presenters

  • Joanna Burk - Modern Teaching Aids
  • Gerard Elias - Robocup Australia

  You can contact Joanna Burk for additional information on 1800 251497 or jburk@teaching.com.au

ACT Committee

The ACT competition is coordinated by a dedicated but small team of volunteers.  If you would like to volunteer or would like to enter this years competition and don’t know where to start we would appreciate hearing from you.  We aim to make this competition as much fun as possible for all children and we are grateful for the support of interested parents and teachers.

Chairperson - Gerard Elias

Secretary - Phil Wade

Treasurer - Sophie Wade

ANU Liaison -

Dance Coordinator -  Kel Hathaway

Rescue Coordinator - Phil Wade

Soccer Coordinator -

Tournament Referee -

Equipment Officer - Phil Wade

Technical Officer - Gerard Elias

ACT-RCJA 2010 Report

You can contact Mr Gerard Elias for additional information on (02) 6258 1055 or gerard.elias@sfx.act.edu.au