About
Savage Soccer is an annual event hosted at WPI and is designed to help students learn about basic robotics principles and teamwork. Savage Soccer was started in 1995 as an IQP and has developed since then to be run by WPI students in their free time.
Savage Soccer began as a way to get students 'psyched up' for the FIRST robotics competition. From its inception in 1995 through the 2001 game, it challenged students to modify a radio controlled car with authorized parts so that it could best perform certain tasks like moving ping pong balls into goals while avoiding obstacles and other hazards. Starting in 2002, the kits became more advanced as we started using the Robovation/Vex kits to make for a better competition and a more realistic version of FIRST. Each year the game is modified to present new goals and challenges for teams to test their creative abilities.
The goal of Savage Soccer is to give high school students a learning environment different from the typical classroom where they can learn to work as a team through all aspects of the robot design and construction process. It takes the model of the FIRST Robotics Competition program where the students work with engineers to brain storm, design, and assemble a full sized robot in a very short and intense six week period, and modifies it to work on a smaller scale. Students work with college mentors or school teachers and have about 4 weeks to make their creations.
Maintained by savage@wpi.eduLast modified: Nov 27, 2006, 22:51 EST