Welcome Botballers!

This site is a new social network for current and former Botball participants to meet and hang out, discuss Botball and robotics technology in general, or just have a good time. It is a project of the Botball Youth Advisory Council (YAC) and the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics .

We're still working on the site and adding features, so you should consider this a beta release. Currently, you can:

It is also home to the YAC's Guide to Botball, a collection of articles aimed at helping new teams learn the skills needed to be competitive in Botball.

Site Announcements

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Live-Blog Challenge

Wed, 06/16/2010 - 20:27 — Jeremy Rand

YAC-Sponsored GCER 2010 Live-Blog Challenge

Historically, many teams try to notify their friends about what's happening at GCER. We (the Botball Youth Advisory Council) want to document this communication in one place. This benefits teams (who will be able to relive the excitement) as well as KIPR (who will be able to use this documented communication for PR and research purposes). Since friendly competition tends to help in situations like this, we are sponsoring the GCER 2010 Live-Blog Challenge. As its name implies, the challenge is to produce the best live-blog documenting the events at GCER 2010!

Live-Blogs should be finished and passwords removed by July 13, 11:59PM Central Time.

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Site revamp!

Sat, 02/13/2010 - 18:17 — matthewbot

Attention Botballers! Similar to the main Botball site, the YAC hopes to revamp the Botball Community with a new look and new features, and we need your help!

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YAC application is now online!

Fri, 08/14/2009 - 18:53 — matthewbot

If you've ever been interested in being a part of YAC, now is your chance! The 2010-2011 YAC application is online. To download it and for more information on applicant requirements, check the YAC application forum topic!

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BPOP Polls open!

Wed, 07/08/2009 - 00:02 — matthewbot

As YAC President Tess Niehoff announced at GCER, we are starting up the Botball Public Opinion Polling (BPOP) Nominations. What is BPOP? It's YAC's method of providing hard data to KIPR on what the teams want to be improved in Botball, and the best ways to achieve those improvements.

For more info, check out the thread in the botball discussion forum:
http://community.botball.org/forum/general/botball-discussion/botball-pu...