In partnership with Lawrence Technological University’s Robofest program, the MCWT Foundation is pleased to announce that six grants of $500 each are available to all-girl Robofest 2016 Teams from Michigan. Teams in grades 5 through 12 are eligible to apply for the grants. The application is due December 20, 2015 and can be found here. 

MCWT offers annual $500 grants for up to six (6) all-girl robotics teams in grades 5 through 12. The MCWT Grant helps sponsor the teams’ activities such as providing students with a laptop, robot kits, travel expenses and mentoring.  These teams compete in Robofest, an annual autonomous robotics contest that allows teams to showcase their STEM (Science, Engineering, Technology and Math) skills. Robofest challenges student teams to design, build and program autonomous robots to compete against those of other teams in the following areas:

• Robofest Game - Accomplish robotics missions using fully autonomous robots. Robofest Game especially puts math skills to the test
• Exhibition - Each team has complete freedom to show off any creative computer programmed robotics R&D project.
• Bottle Sumo - Be the first robot to push intentionally a bottle off the table OR be the last robot remaining on the table.
• Vision Centric Challenge - Advanced category for Sr. high school and college students
• Unknown Mission Challenge - Mission tasks will be totally unknown until the day of competition  

District qualifying competitions begin annually in March. World Championships are held at Lawrence Technological University in May. 

Learn more at http://www.robofest.net