The kids in my after school program at MacFarLane Park IB Elementary have been hard at work building their Battlebots! We’ve had weekly competitions and the kids have come a long way. They started the project with plans for the Five Minute Bot and took it from there to make formidable competitors. They’ve designed offensive weapons, defensive strategies, and integrated a number of MINDSTORMS sensors into their bots to help them find and defeat opponents.

The competition field is our FLL table with last season’s vinyl mat but no mission models to get in the way. The last robot in one piece or not overpowered by another bot is the winner.

Here are the competitors!