- Junior Level (Grades 3-5):
- Intermediate Level (Grades 6-8):
- Senior Level (Grades 9-12):
Competition Rounds:
Preliminary Round:
- Online submission of robot designs and documentation.
- Students should upload a decent-quality video demonstration of their robots, with a maximum duration of 150 seconds. The video should be uploaded to YouTube as a private link, ensuring that the entire duration includes both the starting and final points, clearly showing how the robot operates.
- Participants create detailed designs, schematics, and explanations of their robots.
- Evaluation based on creativity, functionality, innovation, and practicality of the design.
- Duration: To be determined by XCEL, typically 60-90 days for submission.
- Scoring: Judges review and score submissions based on predefined criteria.
- Medals: Gold, Silver, Bronze awarded based on percentile ranking of submissions.
Global Finals:
- On-site showcase and presentation of robot designs held in the USA.
- Finalists present their robot designs to a panel of judges.
- Emphasis on explaining design choices, demonstrating functionality, and addressing questions from the judges.
- Participants may also showcase physical prototypes or models of their robots.
- Judged by a panel of experts in robotics engineering and design.
- Medals, certificates, and cash prizes awarded to top performers based on the judging criteria.
