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The Robotic Interactive Design Challenge
Grades K-12

This design challenge is new for 2001. Students are challenged to build and program an interactive robotic device that will surprise, delight, and engage the Robotic Park audience. This robotic device could be built to solve some �real� world problem or some �future� world problem or simply to entertain. The device should use sensors to trigger its action and should either be interactive with the audience or controlled by its exhibitors.

As with the Animal Design Challenge this interactive robot should also be accompanied by a writing or composition piece appropriate to the robotic project that is designed and built. It could be a brochure with information about your invention, a creative writing piece, or an advertising flyer about your creation. It could be a PowerPoint presentation and inform others about your animal, your robot or the process you went through in the creation of your robotic project. It could even be a video or a multimedia presentation. This brochure, flyer, or presentation should be part of your Robotics Park display, should be your best work, and should be made available (for reading or viewing) to others who are touring the park. Presentations should be running and written material should be available and handed out to those interested.