robotik rules

General Guidelines

1. A school team should comprise of 2 or 3 students and 1 teacher.
2. A participant may only participate in ONE category.
3. Each school can send a maximum of 5 teams for each category.
4. All rules and regulations are subject to change without prior notice.

Competition Categories & Age Groups

1. Regular Category

Category	Date of Birth	Event	Action
Primary School	1 Jan 2003 – 31 Dec 2008	PEARL DIVING	View Details
Lower Secondary	1 Jan 2000 – 31 Dec 2002	TREASURE HUNT	View Details
Upper Secondary	1 Jan 1996 – 31 Dec 1999	MOUNTAINEERING	View Details

*The events and format for the final competition may differ from the above. Information will be given to the finalists at a later date.

2. Open Category

Category	Date of Birth	Theme	Action
Primary School	1 Jan 2003 – 31 Dec 2008	Robots Explorers	View Details
Lower Secondary	1 Jan 2000 – 31 Dec 2002
Upper Secondary	1 Jan 1996 – 31 Dec 1999

*The events and format for the final competition may differ from the above. Information will be given to the finalists at a later date.

3. GEN II Football

Category	Date of Birth	Theme	Action
Primary School & Secondary School	1 Jan 1996 – 31 Dec 2005	GEN II Football	View Details

*The events and format for the final competition may differ from the above. Information will be given to the finalists at a later date.

General Rules – Regular Category

1. The competition rules of the National Robotics Competition are constituted by the organizing committee of the National Robotics Competition ("the tournament" for short in the following paragraphs), and they apply to the tournament.
2. Regulations on materials used:
   1. Except for special designations in competition rules, materials used by the teams to assemble their robots must be from 9797 LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education Base Set, 9695 LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education Resource Set, 9648 Education Resource Set, 9794 LMFS Team Challenge Set (Non-Electronic parts only), 9649 Technology Resource Set, 45544 LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Core Set, and 45560 LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education EV3 Expansion Set. The shape of materials used must be exactly the same. The colour may differ from the original.
   2. Teams should prepare and bring all the equipment (software, portable computers, batteries, extension wires, etc.) that they need during the tournament.
   3. Teams should bring enough spare parts. In the event of accidents or equipment malfunction, the tournament are not responsible for any maintenance and replacement of equipment.
   4. Mentors are not allowed to enter the quarantine area and give instruction or guidance to their teams during assembly time.
   5. Teams are allowed to bring only one NXT/EV3 controller into the quarantine area.
   6. Batteries used during the competition can be 6 pieces of AA batteries or lithium batteries of LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT/EV3. Other power supply devices which are not authorised by the organisers are not allowed to be used.
   7. All the parts for the robot should be in the initial states (not pre-built) when the assembling time starts. For example, a tire cannot be put on a wheel until the assembling time begins.
   8. Contestants may not refer to any instruction sheets/guides in any form including written, illustrated or pictorial.
   9. Teams are allowed to pre-program the robot or store the program in the laptop before the competition.
   10. No screws, glues or tapes are to be used to fasten any components of the robot. Non-compliance with this rule may result in disqualification from the competition.
   11. The control software must be either ROBOLAB, LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education NXT/EV3 software or LabView. See table below for NRC eligible software for Regular Category :
       

       Category	ROBOLAB	NXT Software	EV3 Software	LabView
       Primary school - PEARL DIVING	✓	✓	✓	✖
       Lower Secondary - TREASURE HUNT	✓	✓	✓	✖
       Upper Secondary - MOUNTAINEERING	✓	✓	✓	✓

   12. The motors and sensors for the robot are supplied by LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Education and HiTechnic. Any other products are not allowed. Modification of any original parts, for example, NXT/EV3 Intelligent Brick, motors, sensors, etc is not allowed. Violation of this rule may result in disqualification.
   13. See table below for NRC eligible sensors and motors for Regular Category: