A few weeks ago at EOH, IEEE competed in the AMD Jerry Sanders Design Competition (JSDC). JSDC is a robotics competition where teams design robots to complete specific tasks. This years competition was a large scale game of tic-tac-toe. Basically, each team had to create a robot that could pick up an air-filled balloon and place it in boxes which represented tie-tac-toe squares. The robots have to complete various objectives to obtain their teams balloons. The tasks included pushing a button, hitting a switch, opening a door, and pushing down a balanced titer-toter. Once a team places their balloon into a box, it would remain under the team’s control until another team takes control by placing their balloon into it. At the end of an eight or ten minute round points would be given to teams which controlled three boxes in a round. Furthermore, teams would be awarded points for unlocking their balloons and placing them into a box. The strategy used by the majority of teams was to place as many balloons into a single box instead of trying to obtain a tic-tac-toe. The competition was a single elimination tournament where four robots competed at a time. Your place in the bracket was decided by your standings after seven round robin matches. A total of sixteen different teams from a vary of different colleges competed in the JSDC, and the IEEE placed third in the tournament!

Don and I videotaped all of the rounds that IEEE completed in. Check them out!

Tournament

Demolition Round!! IEEE took 2nd!

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Tournament
Demolition Round
Round Robin – 1st Match
Round Robin – 2nd Match
Round Robin – 3rd Match
Round Robin – 4th Match
Round Robin – 5th Match
Round Robin – 6th Match
Round Robin – 7th Match

Photos

written by Greg

The purpose of the publicity committee is to promote IEEE events and inform members of what the organization has planned. This includes designing and posting fliers, submitting electronic announcements, making classroom announcements, designing informational pamphlets, etc. We are looking for more committee members. Anyone intersted and motivated to publicize IEEE should contact me. We also would like to come up with new and creative ideas for our publicity. This can include major projects as well. The publicity committee will be having a meeting soon so stay posted. If interested, please contact Andrew Ryan at amryan2@illinois.edu.

written by Andrew