During the Celebration of Science week (April 11-15) there were number of activities in addition to the Grand Seminar event in our campus all focusing on science and how it is connected to the our word. This produced the opportunity when the Loyola Robotics Club held their first ever robotics tournament on April 12, 2016. This tour
nament showcased all the different robots the club members had been working on this past year. The feature event was a mini-Sumo competition where the object is to push the opposing robot out of the competition ring first. Three teams entered this event. Following an intense round-robin competition, the team of Chris Kelble and John Miller won the finals event, taking home thecrown of mini-Sumo champions this year.
The club also showcased their Sparki Robots for obstacle detection and removal. In this event, the robots were judged on how fast they can remove randomly placed objects from the competition ring.
In sum, an enjoyable time was had by all the participants and spectato
rs who attended the inaugural event.
The Robotics club plans to have another competition in the Fall 2016 semester with more teams and robots involved.
The mission of the Robotics Club is to encourage students and faculty to discuss, prototype, and test robots that they choose to create on their own or with others. The club is mentored by Dr. David Hoe in the Engineering department and Dr. Roger Eastman in the Computer
Science department. The club meets regularly on Friday afternoons in the Robotics Lab (DSC 143). Please contact John Selle (jtsellejr@loyola.edu) or Christopher Kelble (cjkelble@loyola.edu) for further information.
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