Schools Robot Competition 2019 User guide -...

Schools RobotCompetition 2019

User guide

School Robot Challenge 2019

Contents How to Sign Up Your School

How to Sign Up Your Groups

How to Sign In As Administrator

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Administrator Tools 11

Sign In Your Groups

Building Your Robot

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Testing Your Robot

Save, Load and Submit

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Sign UpYour School Signing up your school couldn’t be easier - simply follow these short steps:

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First, select Competition mode.

Then Create School Account.

How to Sign Up Your School

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Sign UpYour School

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Enter your School Details and click Sign Up. We’ll need to let you know about the competition, so please use a valid contact email for us to reach the admin user on.

Once the form is completed, you will be prompted to login. Then simply login to your new school account.

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To help groups of children work together, create a Group. Sign Up by following these steps:

Sign UpYour Groups

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Then, select Admin Login.

How to Sign Up Your Groups

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Sign UpYour Groups

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Sign into your school account.

Use your details to sign into your school’s admin account.

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Sign UpYour Groups

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You will then be presented with the admin screen. To create a group select “Create Group”

Next, enter the group’s details and once you’ve finished. Click Add Group. It’s as easy as that!

Note: Make sure your school Admin and each student within the group keeps this information to themselves. Plus, as a safeguard, your school should also make a note of which group a student belongs to.

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Sign InAdministrator

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Then, select Admin Login.

How to Sign In As Administrator

Follow these steps to sign in as the administrator:

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Sign into your school account.

Sign into your school admin account.



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You will then be presented with the admin screen. To view a group select “View Groups”.

Select a group from Current Groups.


As administrator you have tools to delete groups and view data for your contestants. Follow these steps to manage your groups.

1View Contestant DataFollow the steps for Administrator Sign In.

Choose a group from your current groups list.

Select a challenge from the Challenge Entered List.

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Here you will see the Contestant Data window and be able to load and view the robot submitted for that challenge.

Administrator Tools


As administrator you have tools to delete groups and view data for your contestants. Follow these steps to manage your groups.

1Delete GroupFollow the steps for Administrator Sign In.

You will see your group list. Select your group and click “Delete Group”.

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Administrator Tools

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Sign InYour Group Sign in to your account so you can get building and competing.

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Then, select Group Log In.

Sign In Your Groups


3Sign into your school account. Followed by your School Group Account.

Sign InYour Group

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Now the excitement can begin. The following instructions should help you get started.

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Welcome to the lab. You’ll find a block already waiting for you in the centre of the room - this is the base for your robot.

You can add to this by clicking on an icon in the ‘Build’ toolbar (at the foot of the screen) and then selecting that component.

Attaching this component to your robots is easy - simply decide which joint you’d like to place it on and then click to add.

You can program, copy or even delete a component at any time by simply clicking and holding on the item. This instantly opens the component menu, where you can make your choice.

The LabBuild Your Robot

Building Your Robot


Great, you’ve built your robot and now it’s time for the really cool stuff - programming, what it can do and deciding how it behaves. Just follow these instructions and bring your robot to life.

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Start by choosing a component. Click and hold on this component to open the ‘Component’ menu. You can then choose the ‘Programming’ icon to open the programming window.

The LabProgram Your Robot

Once opened, this window will show you a list of all the parameters that can be edited - here’s where you can begin to decide what your robot can do.

Programming Your Robot


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The really clever stuff happens when you begin to make relationships between the different components. To do this, simply click another component. This will instantly create a relationship between this and the component you’re programming.


Once you’ve created a relationship, you’ll see a ‘When’ drop-down menu. This is where you’ll find all the events your component can trigger while it’s running - such as colour sensor that can detect the colour black. Select the ones you want to use.


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Next, choose the ‘Then’ drop-down menu to see all the actions the component you’re programming can perform - such as setting the direction of the wheel.


Once you’ve created these relationships between components - setting the events and actions - you can apply these to your robot by pressing ‘save’


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Open Challenge Window.Click on the start button in the top right corner of the lab/build window that is visible when you are in the lab to open the challenge menu.

Select a ChallengeOnce this menu is opened, you can take your pick from the various challenges available – you’ll find these displayed on the left.

The TestChallenge Your Robot

Note: To give you and your robot a helping hand, we always suggest a selection of ‘Useful Components’ for each challenge. To find out more about these, simply click on the icons.

Testing Your RobotSo, now that your robot is built and programmed, you can really put it to the test by tackling a number of challenges. You can modify your robot to meet each one, then see how yours performed by checking your ranking on our leaderboard.


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View StatsTo view your stats select the Stats Tab.

View LeaderboardSelect the Leaderboard Tab to view the leaderboard.

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SaveSave, Loadand Submit

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Follow the steps for Group Sign in.

Select one of the five save slots, its as easy as that!

Note: If a robot already exists in this save slot it will be overwritten with your current robot.

Save Your Robot

After testing and challenging your robots. You may want to save your robot, follow these steps.

Click Save Robot.


LoadSave, Loadand Submit

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Follow the steps for Group Sign in.

Select one of your robot slots.

Note: If you do not have a previously saved robot. No robot slots will be available for you to load from

Load Your Robot

After testing and challenging your robots. You may want to load your robot, follow these steps.

Click ‘My Robots’


SubmitSave, Loadand Submit

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Submit Your Robot

Submit your Robot to the LeaderboardTo submit your robot to the leaderboard follow the steps to view your stats during your testing phase. From here, click ‘Submit to Leaderboard’. Make sure you have completed the challenge first or you will not be able to submit your robot to the leaderboard.

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