TRASH TREKRobot Game

What’s Allowed• 1 EV3, RCX or Controller

• 4 Motors

What’s AllowedAs many of the following external sensors as you like:

What’s Allowed

MINDSTORMS® /TECHNIC/DUPLO®/BIONICLE™/STAR WARS™/ HARRY POTTER™/etc

• Regular LEGO Elements (non-electric)

What’s not allowed

• Modified parts• Purchased pull-back and go motors• Purchased wind-up motors• Power-functions• Glue, tape, oil, paint, etc.• 5th motor (In the Competition Area)

A FEW EXCEPTIONS• Exception 1: You may reference a paper list to keep

track of robot programs.• Exception 2: LEGO string and tubing may be cut to

length.• Exception 3: Marker may be used only in hidden areas,

for ownership identification.• Exception 4: Carts, trays, and boxes may be used for

carrying and storing your equipment, off the table only

Software and Awards

• Software – The robot may only be programmed using LEGO MINDSTORMS, RoboLab, NXT-G or EV3 software (any release)

• No other software is allowed• If your team is in violation, they will not

be allowed to compete.

Missions

Using Recycled Material

Get material discarded from someone else, but useful for you. ● Green Bin must contain at least one matching

Yellow or Blue Bar, all from the other team, is completely in your Safety

60Per Bin in either

Safety

Points

Methane

40Per Methane

Points

Collect Methane from the Landfill Area and use it to help run the Truck and/or the Factory● Methane must be in the Truck’s engine

compartment, and/or the Factory’s Power Station

Transport

50The Truck supports all

of the Yellow Bin’s weight

Points

Load the all-Yellow Material Bin onto the Truck to be transported east/unloaded.● Score one or both:

60The Yellow Bin is

completely east of the Truck’s Guide

Points

SortingYellow/Blue Bars are recyclable. Black Bars are impurities we have no current way to use. Process bars through the Sorter. Bars sorted into their matching Green Bins have positive potential.

Sorting● Yellow/blue bars are in their matching green bin and the bin (bins

score independently)...

...is completely in other team’s Safety, by way of

your West Transfer

60 Points Each Team, Per Bin

...is completely in your West Transfer Area and/or

completely on your West Transfer

7 Points Per Bar

...was never completely in your West Transfer Area

6 Points Per Bar

....part of a scoring Flower Box, or in their original

Setup position

8 Points Per Bar

...in their matching Green Bin, or in the Landfill bin.

3 Points Per Bar

...anywhere else

(-)8 Points Per bar

Method Constraint: These require sequence/path as described, in addition to final positions.

● Black bars are (bars score independently)...

Method Constraint: Bars must only enter Green Bins directly from the Sorter’s east chute or CAREERS BONUS...

Careers

Plus R10 Leniency Bonus: Team technicians and/or the ref are

allowed to unclog any east chute blockage by hand, and/or put mis-

sorted bars into correct bin, including bars that did not land in

any bin

60 Points

Move at least one person to the Sorter Area to earn a helpful exception to the Rules.

Scrap Cars

The Engine/Windshield unit is installed in the

unfolded Car in the proper space and direction

65 Points

Fix the old Car by installing the Engine/Windshield, or fold the car and sell it for scrap.● Score only one way:

The Car is completely folded and completely in

the East Transfer Area.

50 Points

Method Constraint: Cars must never cross into Safety, even partly.

Cleanup

Move Bags from the Sorter and/or the Beach, and return Animals to their favorite spots.● Score any that apply:

*** The fish Food Scrap does not count as an Animal ***

30Per Bag - Plastic Bags

are completely in Safety

Points

20Per Animal - Animals are completely in any circle

free of Plastic Bags

Points

35The Chicken is completely

in the small circle

Points

Composting

60The Compost is ejected,

but not completely in Safety

Points

Start the Composting process. After some time, it will eject Compost.● Score only one way:

80The Compost is

completely in Safety

Points

Salvage

60

PointsMove the Valuables to Safety.● Valuables must be completely in Safety.

Demolition

Demolish the building and decide what to do with the materials.● None of the Building’s twelve beams is left

standing in the Setup positions. 85

Points

Purchasing Decisions

Decide about buying Toy Planes based on their Packaging.● Toy planes must be completely in Safety. 60

Per Plane

Points

Repurposing

Use the packaging from a Toy Plane as a flower box by putting compost in it.● The Compost must be perfectly nested

inside one of the Packages from which a Toy Plane has been removed. The Package is in original condition.

40

Points

PenaltiesInterruption Penalty –Caused by you interrupting the Robot while it is not completely in Safety

Junk Penalty – Caused…● immediately - by each piece of

equipment the Robot strands partly in Safety

● at the end of the Match - by each piece of equipment still stranded completely outside Safety.

For each Penalty as described above, the Ref will place one Black Bar on the Mat in a convenient out-of- the-way place, not to exceed four Bars. The Ref may shift them out of the Robot’s way as needed, but they must always stay in a negative scoring position.

(-) 8 points Per Bar not in Flower Box, original Setup position, matching Green bin, or in Landfill Bin.

Questions???