We invite you to attend the 2nd Annual bIrobot Movie Festival where we feature films that feature robots. Before the films, the bIrobot Team will take to the stage to explain what FIRST is all about, demonstrate their robots and answer questions. This year we will also display our award winning pit facade and other materials that we used to promote Beaver Island at our events this season.
Our feature films this year are Wall-e (featuring the robot Wall-e and his pals) at 3:00 p.m. and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (featuring Marvin the Paranoid Android) at 7:00. If you are only interested in the team presentation, please come for that and feel free to leave before the movie starts. The presentations will happen ahead of each of the films and will last about 20 minutes.
Join the BICS robotics team bIrobot for a cybersecurity camp. Learn how to defend PCs by understanding how they are attacked. Participate in a cyber-sec “capture the flag” game as you compete against students from across the state. It’ll be lots of fun and the skills you learn will help get you ready for the BICS CyberPatriot team launching in the fall. The class will be taught by long-time island summer resident and cybersecurity expert Chris Sorensen with assistance from bIrobot Lead Mentor Kevin Boyle. The camp sessions will be available online and in person, but those on the island are encouraged top plan to participate in person. Camp times are 8:30 to 11:30
Signup begins May 1. To sign up, send an email to cybersecure@birobot.org.
Unfortunately, we’ve had to cancel our camp for this summer. Our team is small and its members are all busy with summer jobs this summer. We hope to build our ranks this year and offer a summer camp again next year.
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We plan to resume our robotics camp this summer! It’s a mini-FRC season packed into a week. We’ll spend a day one getting up to speed. Kick-off (and the game reveal) will be at noon on day two with build continuing through the morning of day five. The competition will be day five. Campers will form teams to design and build their own robots using the Lego EV3 platform. Teams will compete both on robotics performance and their ability to explain their design, strategy and approach to teamwork to judges who will visit them in their pits during the competition (just like at and FRC event).
Camp will run 8:30 to 12:30 Monday through Friday. The competition will start at 1:00 on Friday.
Check the bIrobot website for additional details and to sign up to be notified when online registration becomes available.
Please remember that FIRST is more than robots. Campers will also design team logos, banners and buttons. No prior programming or robotics experience is required, but campers with prior experience will be equally challenged.
