RobocupJunior Competitions

Overview

Storming Robots focuses in computational thinking and learning in computing algorithms required in artificial intelligence realm. In order to maximize the learning in algorithmic software development, and automation in robotics, as well as exploration of various platform, the RobocupJunior (RCJ) stands out as one of the best choices. Here is a link to list some major differences between the RCJ and the FIRST. .

While RCJ does not win the popularity among grade schools in USA, it stands out to be apart from most other games in the states. Robot Challenge itself involves dynamic changes in variables under their running environment. Besides, there is no restriction on a hardware or software manufacturer. RCJ sits at the pre-college level of the RoboCup global initiative. RoboCup is a International renowned A.I intensive game. It stresses the learning in automation gearing towards artificial intelligence. RCJ delves deeply into computer science and algorithmic programming.

At the International Tournament, besides competing against top teams from across the globe, they will have the opportunity to interface with hundreds of research scientists and engineers from around the Int'l, and watch their amazing robotics apparatus in action.

More about our participations in RCJ.

Hardware Platform used at SR:

• Mindstorms  or EV3.
• Arduino.
• Raspberry PI.

Software:

• RobotC from Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Academy OutReach
• Open Source - Arduino C/C++
• Python

Resource Links

1.    Official Robocup Site (Parent of Robocupjunior)
2.   Official RobocupJunior Site. : This is where you should find the Competition Rules. Team member MUST review the rules online carefully.
   Here is a link containing reminders regarding the robot mechanical considerations.
   Every team member will receive an invitation link to google drive to deposit their codes, documents, etc. before you first meeting.
3.    Official Robocupjunior discussion forum
4.   Discord Channel (contact office to obtain link.
5.   Official USA RobocupJunior Site.
6. About Mindstorms platform.
   • Sites to purchase Extra Non-electronic components:
     •   Bricklink
     •   LEGO Education
     For gears, and Technic Beams with Snaps, we recommend to purchase them from legoeducation than bricklink)
   • Sites to purchase electronic components for Mindstorms:
     •   LEGO Education
     •   MIndsensors
     •   HiTechnic
   •    Mechanical Building Concepts Books for LEGO Mindstorms.
   • For MakeBlock Ranger platform. - see the component document above.

Instructional Materials for Soccer Referees

• Nicely summarized document written by Michael Warren (Engineering Teacher/Coach from Dalton School). This lists the critical points regarding arbitration in case of conflicts.

• Power point with video clips for 1st time Referees.

• Video clips of an actual competition made by Team INPUT from the RoboCupJunior 2017 International Championship Nagoya Japan Soccer Open"Round 4" - INPUT vs EMM_Soccer(Macau) 1st half [1/2]. This clearly shows how to handle cases such as "out of bound", "Ball in Dispute"

• A fun video made by TalentS Center from Saudi Arabia.

Won Top Ranks at the RobocupJunior USA 2023

Venue: Princeton High School

Date: May 21st, 2023.

Click here to view the list of awards and recognitions.

Won 1st Place in Rescue Maze League

Members (left to right): Alex Hu, Dhruva Chakravarthi, Andy Cheng (the Captain) and Peter Lin.

Advanced to the 2022 International Competition

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Teams winning Judges Awards:

2021 USA RobocupJunior

Venue: Virtual Competition.

In lieu of in-person competitions, teams will showcase their robots in online submissions, live-presentation and interviews.   Click here to view details!

2020 USA RobocupJunior

Unfortunately, the USA Regional has been canceled. All teams are invited to participate in the International Virtual Competition instead.

Won 3rd Place at the 2021 International Competition

 

Team Friends: Derek Geng (left. Admitted to Princeton U.), Sid Srivastava (Captain) (middle. Admitted to CMU.), Christopher Gu (right. Admitted to Stanford.).

 

Won Two Awards at the 2020 International Virtual Competition

 

Team NERD: Peter Lin (top left), Kumar Damaraju (topr right), Dhruva Chakravarthi (bottom left), and Andy Cheng (bottom right). Team portfolio.

 

 BEST OVERALL AWARD

  The reasons for the award:
Best overall is awarded to team N.E.R.D. for the combination of innovative hardware and software development put together with excellent presentation. The team presents a thorough explanation of how and why certain components were used, especially the extensive use of their camera. The video put together with additional information on the website serves as a great resource for other teams to learn and replicate in the future.

 BEST PRESENTATION AWARD

  The reasons for the award:
Best presentation is awarded to team N.E.R.D. for the informative and entertaining video. Throughout the video, diagrams, simple animations, and videos were used to clearly describe their learning process. Put together with the articulated audio explanations, it brought a pleasant tone throughout that invites the viewer to play the video again. Their team website shared valuable documentation too.

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Go here to take a look at over 50 presentations submitted by over 150 RoboCuppers from all over the world.

Won 3rd Place at the 2019 International RoboCupJunior at Sidney in Australia

Click here to view all others

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Besides Team Polaris, there were two all-rookie teams competed at the event. Although not having placed top rank, with their admirable effort, they all gained substantial amount of knowledge through this rare opportunity - this will surely contribute to their future success.

 

These teams are : Maze team - Victor Hu, and Varun Sarabudla. Rescue Line Open - Andy Cheng, Dhruva Chakravarthi, and Peter Lin. Event took place from July 4-7 at the Sidney of Australia.

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2019 USA RobocupJunior

First of all, we must thank all the parents for all their support regarding all the driving and long hours. The past event definitely has been a learning experience for everyone. Everyone has put in great deal of effort in advancing their own learning. All deserve a big pat on the back!

Result

Rescue Line:

Rescue Maze:

Scores for other teams:

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Venue: Trinity School in New York City.

Date: May 19th, 2019 for all leagues

2018 International RobocupJunior Championship

Venue : Montreal - Palais des congrès

Date: June 17th to 21st, 2018

Team Beings taking home the one of the top honors from the tournament.

• Team members are Ethan Wu (Admitted to UC Berkeley), and Daniel Xu (Admitted to U. Penn)
• Best Algorithms Award.

Team was also at the impressive 5th Place in complex Rescue Maze Challenge.

Team CPU brings home the prize for Best Team Spirit Award

This is a rookie team. Their persistent hardwork and focus despite the setback on the first day is nothing less than “admirable.” This reflects a great deal in their characters. The International Rescue Chair personally complimented the team for perseverance and continuous improvement throughout the game.

2018 USA RobocupJunior

Storming Robots teams once again continued the winning streak.

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Three teams from Storming Robots have advanced to the International Championship.

Maze League - First Place

The Beings! : Ethan Wu (10th Grade) and Daniel Xue (9th Grade).

Line League - First Place

The Team CPUs : Aneesh Naglkar-team captain (8th Grade), Jeffrey Wang (8th Grade), Derek Wang (6th Grade), James He (8th Grade), and Sid Srivastava (8th Grade).

OnStage League- First Place

The SR-OnStage : Susan Lee, a home schooler from Basking Ridge, and Michelle Bryson from Princeton High School.

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Press release on the Messenger Gazette

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Venue:

Venue :

Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Date:

- Rescue League (for both Line and Maze) : APRIL 29th

- OnStage and Soccer: May 6th

Time :

It is a full day event. Plan to be at the premise at 8am. More details will be available as we get close to the competition day. It is a full day event. Plan to be at the premise at 8am. More details will be available as we get close to the competition day.

2018 Robocupjunor Teams

2017 International RobocupJunior Championship

Venue: Nagoya, Japan
Date: July 27 to July 31st, 2017.

Team Beings taking home the 2 top honors for the tournament:

- Best Engineering Strategy Award, and
- 2nd Place in SuperTeam Challenge.

Root3 brings home the prize for Best Team Spirit Award

- also placing an impressive 15th out of 38 teams from around the Int'l.

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2017 USA RobocupJunior on May 21st.

Storming Robots teams once again continued the winning streak. Click here to view the awards to SR's teams. There are totally 50+ teams at the event across three Leagues.

Among 13 Judges' Best Awards across all leagues, SR teams won 5 of them. Among 10 Field Places Awards across all leagues, SR teams won 5 of them as well.

6 teams among all the leagues will be invited to compete in the 2017 International Championship held at Nagoga of Japan in July. Two of these teams are from Storming Robots:

1. Root 3 Team * Rescue Line Open League
   Mehal Kashyap (Edison), Ethan Mak (Short Hills) and Jagdeep Singh (Warren).
2. The Beings! * Rescue Maze Open League
   Ehtan Wu (Bridgewater), and Daniel Xue (Belle Mead).

Pictures will be posted shortly

Go here to view more about 2017 USA RobocupJunior results.

Venue:

Our Teams:

Other Important Logistics:

Fee: NO cost to spectators, just the team members.

MUST READ!  Special notes to Parents (UPDATED ON March 7th, 2017) Stress the Systems Engineering process, not the result... Despite of our history of excellent teams results, we "never" use the word "winning" as part of our vocabulary throughout the entire process.   We always stress on  "challenging yourself and have fun doing it".  Please review our principle here. We never dictate solutions for students to follow in order to achieve best result.  This is not only wrong, but also damaging in so many dimensions in terms of education.  As a famous proverb said, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." All students have quite unique way to create their robot, as well as solutions. During the competition season, this is the crucial time to heavily stress on the value of self-discipline on engineering process, and teamwork, levels of commitment, time-management, organization. They will enhance their technical area and soft skills through the process of systems engineering life cycles.  They should compile most of their knowledge base throughout the year outside the competition season.  During the competition season, they will systematically put what they know into practice, and make enhancement and possibly new concepts along the way. Applause their effort...  Most of these participants have been working very hard. The challenge is much more difficult than the field appears to be.  Like what SR has always encouraged the students to understand that it IS THE PROCESS where they learn the most from, not the result.  Therefore, parents,  please convey the message to them that we all applause "their effort", not the result. Parents as Spectators only: Parents are not allowed to be seating in the competitors work pit area. Do not keep telling your children what to do with their game. This not only distracts the team from working with each other, but also can get them disqualified as the host is completely within its right to do so. IMPORTANT:  In the past, we found a couple of parents, unfortunately, rudely intrude the team and forced others in the team to let their own children to make calls.  Needless to say, this is totally unacceptable behavior.   You will be given only one warning.  If that continues after the warning, your child will be removed from the competition.

2016 International RobocupJunior

Venue: Leipzig, Germany
Date: June 30 to July 4th, 2016.

Award:

The Best Hardware Solution Award / Rescue Line Primary League - AvengerZ

Team created a hybrid platform solution for its robot. It created a customized combo sensors I2C Arduino-based module to interface with a Mindstorms/NXT as the master controller.

Teams which advanced to compete in this International event:

1. AvengerZ Team / Rescue Line Primary League
   Ethan Mak (Short Hills), and  Shikhar Ahuja (Belle Mead)
2. The Deus Ex Machina Team /  Rescue Line Secondary League
   Daniel Tang (Belle Mead), Mehal Kashyap (Edison), Shaurya Gunderia (Monmouth Junction), Kyle Li (Belle Mead), and Aaron Fan (Belle Mead).
3. The MazeRuners / Rescue Maze Open League
   Jeffrey Cheng (Bridgewater), Julian Lee (Sumit), and Stepan Gorelenkov (Belle Mead) 

2016 USA RobocupJunior

The Eleventh US RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Horace Mann School in New York City on the April 17th of 2016.

3 teams advanced to International Championship.

Update - April 19th
There were over 35 teams from the NY, NJ, PA competed at the AI-oriented Robotics Tournament RoboCupJunior. The USA event was held on April 17th in NY City. Out of three leagues which Storming Robots participated, our teams once again filled the leaderboard, in 2 individual leagues. Big applause to all teams' endeavor and ability to work under pressure. Most importantly, they all have compiled great deal of knowledge in both hard and soft skills, and put engineering in practice. Bravo to all teams!
Distinguished Awards	Each Hard skill category signifies the best design in terms of creativity, cleverness, simplicity and functionality.   Not only the team has to show their work/product, but also must be able to present well verbally and exhibit their documenation of their work. Best Algorithm Design Award to the team RoboNavigators consisting of Rishi Purohit/Branchburg (age 11),  Daniel Xue/Belle Mead (grade 13), and Andrew Krapivin/Belle Mead (age 14).  Best Electronic Design Award to the Beings! consisting of Ethan Wu/Bridgewater (age 14), and Alex Zhang/Belle Mead (age 14).   Best Impact Award to the team Dimensions  consists of Luke Dai/Belle Mead (age 16), Sonia Purohit/Branchburg (age 14), and Darshan Patel/Piscataway (age 14).  The “Best Impact” Award is for a team's positive impact on their engineering community because of their attempt in the work of neural networking algorithm application. Despite of its final deployment not working as well as it was wished, their effort of such algorithm was recognized as contributive and encouraged to continue. Best Teamwork Award  to the team AvengerZ consisting Ethan Mak from Short Hills (age 14), and Shikhar Ahuja/Belle Mead (age 12). Best Technical Inteview Design Award - to the team OmegaBotZ consisting of Jalen Patel, Justin Patel, and Deep Patel (all age 13) from Allentown, PA.  During the technical interview, team was able to describe their work eloquently, as well as present clear and concise documentation. Speaking with confidence and charisma.
Awards for Fields Competition	Rescue Line League - Primary 1st Place The AvengerZ Team -  also won the Teamwork Award described above. 2nd Place The Toxik Team - consists of Justin Hong/BaskingRidge (age 13), Nikolaj Folmer/Newtown,PA  (age 13), and Shiangtian Li/Short Hills (age 12). 3rd Place The Quarks - consists of Jeffrey Wang/Bound Brook (age 12), Siddharth Srivastava/Kinnelon (age 12), and Vctor Hu /Green Brook (age 13).   Rescue Line League  - Secondary 1st Place The Deus Ex Machina  -  consists of  Aaron Fan/Belle Mead (age 15),  Daniel Tang/Belle Mead (age 15), Kyle Li/Belle Mead (age 15),  Mehal Kashyap/Piscataway (age 15), Shaurya Gunderia/Monmouth Township (age 13).   Rescue Maze Open League This league is designed for Secondary Level. In order to perform well in this game, team must be able to understand Graph Theory - Search Algorithm which only introduced in College level. 1st Place MazeRunners  - consists of Jeffrey Cheng/Bridgewater (age 13), Julian Lee/Summit (age 13), and Stepan Gorelenkov /Belle Mead (age 14). 2nd  Place The Beings! - consists of Ethan Wu/Bridgewater (age 14), and Alex Zhang/Belle Mead (age 14).  With their own designed PCB.

Won 2nd Place at the 2015 International RoboCupJunior at China

Our Rescue Line Team S.A.D. (Sonia Purohit, Alexander Lisenko, and Darshan Patel) has won 2nd Place at the Event! The tournament was held from July 19-22 at Heifei in China. Click here to view the press release. Here is a video of one of the teams' execution Interview with CNN. Team interviewed by BBC

2015 RoboCupJunior

The Tenth US RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Horace Mann School in New York City on the April 19th of 2015.

2 teams advanced to International Championship.
 

Update - April 23rd
There were 38 teams from the NY, NJ, PA competed t this AI-oriented Robotics Tournament.   Out of the 17 Awards from the Leagues which Storming  Robots' teams participated, SR teams won 10 of them.   Big applause to all teams' endeavor and ability to work under pressure.  Most importantly, they all have compiled great deal of knowledge in both hard and soft skills, and put engineering in practice.   Bravo to all teams!
Distinguished Awards	Best Mechanical Design Award -  by Legion-X Best Poster Award - by  Team MeKANsm (Jimmy Shi Daniel Xue ) Best Technical Interview Award - by RAW Team
Awards for Fields Competition	Rescue Line League - Primary 1st Place -  The S.A.D. Team (Alexander Lisenko, Darshan Patel, and Sonia Purohit). 2nd Place - The RAW Team (William Kraft, Abiram Gupta, Rishi Purohit). 3rd Place - The RoboSapien (Eugene Rozental, Luke Ittycheria, Rohil Patel). Rescue Line League - Secondary 2nd Place  -  Legion X (Bhavik Shah, Seriozha Zakharkin, William Cui, Val Post). 3rd Place -  Visionaries (Colleen McConnell, Brenna Herrity). Rescue Maze Open League 1st Place  -  SR-chitects (Ashley Yang, Alexander Saff, Pranav Darbha, and Sean Doran  ) Soccer - Secondary League 2nd Place - Dimensions (Luke Dai and Vadym Glushkov )

2014 International RCJ at Brazil

Won International Titles for USA at the International Event!

• 1st Place SuperTeam International Championship - Rescue A/ Primary League - by our "Team Being".
• 5th Place Individual Team Technical International Championship - Rescue B / Secondary League by our SR-chitects Team 1.
• Best Technical Engineering Journal Award by our SR-chitects 1 Team

There are 30+ top teams under each League from different countries at the International Event.

• Rescue B /Secondary - our Team SR-chitects 1 placed 5th Individual Championship out of 29 teams.
• Rescue A / Primary - our Team Beings, a rookie team, placed 11th Individual Team Championship out of 38 teams.

2014 RoboCupJunior

The Ninth US RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Bridgewater Middle School on the April 13rd of 2014. There were 43 teams competiting at the AI-oriented robotics tournament RoboCupJunior. Storming Robots teams once again occupy large portion of the leaderboard.

Four teams advanced to compete at the International championship event.

Fields Competition

All First Place teams:

• RescueB/Secondary: SR-chitects 1 -The MASter – Salil Pathare (Gr. 10), Michael Xie (Gr. 10), and Ashley Yang (Gr. 9). (All from Somerset County)
• RescueA/Primary: Team B.E.ing – Ethan Wu (Gr.6), and Brandon Tang (Gr. 7). (All from Someset County)
• RescueA/Secondary: Team Tempest – Alexander Saff (Gr. 9), Dhruv Patel (Gr. 10) and Seriozha Zakharkin (Gr. 10). (From Middlesex, and Somerset County)
• RoboDance/Primary: Shooting Stars – Mira Pantozzi (Gr. 6), Riya Mehta (Gr. 6), Colleen McConnell (Gr. 8), and Vaani Aggarwal (Gr. 6). (From Somerset County)

All Second Place teams:

• RescueA/Primary:  Team eXCeLerate – Wilson Liou (Gr. 8), Joseph Chen (Gr. 8), and David Xue (Gr. 8). (All from Monmouth County)
• RescueA/Secondary: Team ThunderCatZ – Val Post (Gr. 9) and Zachary Nekola (Gr. 9). (From Somerset and Hunterdon County)
• RescueB/Secondary: SR-chitects- The Rex – Andrew Amerman (Gr. 10), Andre Gou (Gr. 11), and Siddharth Kurella (Gr. 10)  (From Somerset and Middlesex County)

All Third Place teams:

• RescueA/Primary: Team Saja Avengers – Julian Lee (Gr. 5), Alexander Lisenko (Gr. 6), Abhay Rao (Gr. 5) and Shaurya Gunderia (Gr. 6) (From Essex, Somerset, and Monmouth County)
• SoccerA/Primary: Team FC Robotics – Prateek Humane (Gr. 7) and Neelay Trivedi (Gr. 7) (From Somerset County)
• SoccerA/Secondary: Team Dimensions – Luke Dai (Gr. 9) and Vadym Glushkov (Gr. 9) (From Monmouth County)

Technical Interview Evaluation

• Soccer - Best Practice Award - By  Dimension Team
• Rescue B - Best Robot Design -  by  Team SR-chitects - The MASters
• Rescue B - Best Software Design - by  Team SR-chitects - The MASters
• Rescue A - Best Robots Design - by Team B.E.ing

All our remarkable teams
There are totally 16 remarkable teams competed at the 2014 RobocupJunior Event. Big applause to all teams who have spent much endeavor and have collected great learning experience.

Team Name - League: Members

• Dimensions - Soccer A/Secondary: Luke Dai, Vadym Glushkov
• Error 404.Team Not Found! - Rescue A/Primary: Arthur Wayne, Sahir Mody, Vivek Kasubaga
• eXCeLerate - Rescue A/Primary: David Xue, Joseph Chen, Wilson Liou
• FC Robotics - Soccer/Primary: Neelay Trivedi, Prateek Humane
• Firing Rubber Duckies - Rescue A/Primary: Steven Chen, Tian Jin, Nalin Ahuja, Rishi Mago
• Robot Roamers - Rescue A/Primary: Nathan Sankar, William Kraft, Aneesh Durai, John Paul Salvatore
• Robots of Awesomeness! - Rescue A/Primary: Brian Dorobis, Lucca Cioffi, Rebecca White
• Saja Avengers - Rescue A/Primary: Julian Lee, Alexander Lisenko, Abhay Rao, Shaurya Gunderia
• Shooting Stars - Dance/Primary: Colleen McConnell, Mira Pantozzi, Riya Mehta, Vaani Aggarwal
• SR-chitects The REX - Rescue B: Andrew Amerman, Siddharth Kurella, Andre Gou
• SR-chitects The Master - Rescue B: Ashley Yang, Michael Xie, Salil Pathare
• Storming Duo - Rescue A/Secondary: Daniel Carroll, Ryan Betz
• Team B.E.ing - Rescue A/Primary: Brandon Tang, Ethan Wu
• Tempest - Rescue A/Secondary: Alexander Saff, Dhruv Patel, Seriozha Zakharkin
• The M.A.A.D Team - Rescue A/Primary: Aaron Peng, Andrew Krapivin, Darshan Patel, Milan Bhat
• The Strange Quark Team - Rescue B : Brady Bean, Vishnu Pathmanaban
• ThunderCatZ - Rescue /Secondary: Val Post, Zachary Nekola

2013 RoboCupJunior

The Eighth US RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Liberty Science Center/NJ on the April 14th of 2013. 

There were a  total of 44 teams with 169 participants from CA, NC, NJ, NY, PA.

Storming Robots teams again filled the leaderboard in most of the Leagues:

• Soccer/Primary:
  Dimensions - the First Place.
• RescueB/Secondary:
  1. SR-chitects - the First Place.
  2. RoboSapiens - the Third Place.
• RescueA/Primary:
  1. Seedz - the First Place.
  2. ShimoZumo and Chitty Chitty BotBot - tied for the Second Place
     
  3. Horatii - the Third Place.
• RoboDance/Primary:
  Team Visionaries - the 2nd Place.

More importantly, "Hats Off" to all our teams who have also demonstrated impressive dedication and perseverance in doing their best in challenging themselves. What set our teams apart from many others: Throughout the course of 6+ hours at the competition, they were completely on their own. They had to make strategic and technical decisions to continuously improve themselves.

Here are the teams:

#YOLO:  Alexander Saff, Steven Chen, Tian Jin

3-Amigos: Alexander Lisenko Aaron Fan Aditya Jain

Chitty Chitty BotBot: Vishnu Pathmanaban and Hugh Zhang

Dimensions: Luke Dai, and Vadym Glushkov

Methodology Madness: Daniel Carroll, Andrew Krapivin, Luke Bernick, Ryan Betz

MooTurtles: Brandon Tang, Jesse Cross, Tanav Suman

RoboSapiens: Siddharth Kurella and Abhishek Kalita

Seedz: Sean Doran, Neelay Trivedi and Yuwen Zhang

ShimoZumo: Joseph Chen and Wilson Liou

SR-chitects: Michael Xie, Andre Gou, Andrew Amerman and Salil Pathare

TechKnowledgers: Prateek Humane, Nikolaj Folmer, Rishab Bhatt

The Baryons Team: Brady Bean, Steven Lee

The Red Steaming Robot Dragons: John Kapustka, Shanmukha Akkapeddi, Vishwa Arasappan

Team Visionaries: Brenna Herrity and Colleen McConnell.

2013 International RCJ at Netherland

Won International Titles for USA at the International Event!

• 1st Place SuperTeam International Champion- RoboDance/ Primary League - by our Team Visionaries.
• 2nd Place Individual Team Technical International Champion - RoboDance / Primary League by ourTeam Visionaries
• Best Technical Presentation Award - RoboRescue A / Primary League by our Team ShimoZumo

Three  other remarkable teams made impressive preformance at the International Event (see full list here).

• RoboSoccer / Secondary - our Team The Dimensions won its way to enter Quarter-Final.
• RoboRescue B /Secondary - our Team SR-chitect placed 13th from 29 top teams.
• RoboRescue A / Primary - our Team SeedZ placed 15th from 31 top teams.

2012 International RCJ at New Mexico

Won International Titles for USA at the International Event!

Super Team International Champion RoboDance / Primary
- by our Team Zulu.

3rd Place International Champion RoboSoccer / Primary
- by our Dimensions team.

Two other Terrific teams made impressive preformance at the International Event.

RoboRescue B /Secondary - 10th from 22 teams by our SR-chitect Team.

RoboRescue A / Primary - 20th from 33 teams by our CheezPuffz team.

Date	April 22nd, 2012.
Location:	Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ.
Official Details:	Visit 2012 Event Information & Schedule site  about the schedule, teams list,  and the event details. Visit USA-RCJ website about technical details on leagues, rules, etc.
Checkin-time:	8:00am
Game Starts:	9:00am

2012 RoboCupJunior

Storming Robots teams took First Place in three out of seven Leagues. In the RoboRescueA Primary League.

On April 22nd, 2012, the Seventh US RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Liberty Science Center in NJ. There were competitors from other states such as North Carolina, PA, NY, and NJ. 40+ teams competed in several Leagues at the event.

Winning teams:

The following winning teams are invited to compete at the 2012 RobocupJunior International Event in the Mexico City during the week of June 18th.

 Epic Taco

Took First Place at Rescue A/Primary League. It consists of two team members, Sean Doran (6th grader from Branchburg) and Vishnu NV Pathmanaban (5th grader from Bridgewater). 

 The Dimensions

Took First Place at RoboSoccer/Primary League. It consists of three team members, Sunny Aggarwal (9th grader from Bridgewater) and Vadym Glushov and Luke Dai (both 8th grader from Belle Mead).

 

Won the First Place in the RoboRescue B High School League. It consists of three members, Andre Gou (9th grader from Warrensville), Michael Xie (8th grader from Bridgewater) and Eric Ward (8th grader from Flemington).

 CheezPuffz

Won the Second Place in the RoboRescue A/Primary League. It consists of two members, William Cui (7th grader from Basking Ridge), Zeriozha Zakharkin(8th grader from Basking Ridge). (Ashley Yang, another 7th grader from roboclub, will join them at the International Event.)

Team Zulu Received the Best Entertainment Award in the RoboDabce/Primary League. It consists of 3 members, Colleen McConnell (6th grader from Skillman), Brenna Herrity (7th grader Homeschooler from Yardsville), and Sanjana Sastry, (6th grader from Edison).

 

Our 2012 teams List

Head Mentor: Elizabeth Mabrey for all teams. Students Mentors: Morgan Van Blacrum, Avery Katko, and Matthew Goldman
Teams:	Two Primary Soccer. Eight Primary Rescue A. One RoboDance. Two Rescue B. (Secondary level)

** Teams (with members and registration cost for each member)
	Registration:  This cost listed below includes registration and the Tshirt.   The registration cost goes to the event host, not Storming Robots.  Storming Robots simply consolidates all individual payments and send RCJ a single check on your behalf.  Therefore, please write the check to "Storming Robots". T-Shirts included:  Shirt cost goes to the shirts printer. SR is simply doing this on your behalf. Making a shirt wtih each individual team name and appealing color will be prized at an exorbitant cost, approx. $35/shirt and parents have to get one as well in order to meet the 6 shirts minimum. SR will try its best to stay maximum of $20 each.  SR will place the order with a design at its own discretion. Therefore, $20 is added into the final fee. If you feel you wish a certain design, color and your team name must show on the shirts, etc., you must contact us no later than March 10th. You will be responsible to design, order the shirts for the team, and collect payments from other team parents. Please submit no later than March 10th. Teams are registered only after registration fee is received. Storming Robots will process the registration for you. There is a deadline for withdrawal by April 1st. This will entitle you $25 refund, not what said below because team registration fee of $70 which is not refundable, and neither is the T-shirt. Cost of each team member listed below.
P=Primary        S=Secondary
	RoboDance/P: Brenna, Colleen, Sanjana	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Hugh, John, Janathon	$68
		tbd		RoboRescue A/P - Sean, Vishnu	$80
	RoboSoccer A/P - Ben B. and Nikhil	$80		RoboRescue A/P -  Dhruv, Swathi, Tyler	$68
	RoboSoccer A/P -   Luke, Sunny, Vadym	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Anish, Dhruv	$80
	RoboSoccer A/P - Ben W., Brady, Steven	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Seriozha, William	$80
	RoboRescue B - Andre, Eric, Michael	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Ashley, Bhavik, Justin	$68
	RoboRescue B - Andrew A., Salil, Uday	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Aaron, Hunter, Rishab	$68
	RoboRescue A/P - Ananya, Ashwin,  Rohan	$68		RoboRescue A/P - Joseph, Nikolaj, Prateek	$68
	RoboRescue A/P - Daniel, Lawrence	$80

2011 International RCJ at Turkey

Storming Robots, in three straight years, won the 1st place to represent the USA at the Robocup International Robotics Tournament. The 2011 Event will be held at Istanbul.

Representing the United States in the International RoboCupJunior division of the competition is the PI² Team,  Andrew Amerman and Salil Pathare. They will compete against other young students their age from over 30 different countries including China, Japan and Germany, etc. In addition, they will also take all the challenge to collaborate with an assigned international team.

They will also have the rare opportunity to watch many other research (PHD) and industrial level robotics AI-Oriented competitive robots and inventions from different countries all in the same facility.

2011 RCJ

On April 10th, 2011, the Sixth NorthEast Regional RoboCupJunior robotics competition was held at the Orange High School in NJ.    There were competitors from Canada, Massachusetts,  NY and NJ. View the news video from NY-1.
...	First Place/RoboRescue: Pi-squared The team consists of two team members, Andrew Amerman, and Salil Pathare; both share captain role of the team.  They are both 7th graders.
The Second Place:  Droidchitect The team consists of 5 members. They are Brian Chung/Gr.-7/Bridgewater, Dhevin Gupta/Gr.-6/Piscataway,  Rohan Nagalkar(captain)/Gr.-8/Bridgewater, Steven Lee/Gr.-7/Plainsboro, and Bhavik Shah/Gr.-6/Basking Ridge.    The Third Place: R.I.C.K.I. It consists of 4 members, Brian Breslow/Gr.-7/Basking Ridge, Luke Dai (co-captain)/Gr.-6/Belle Mead, Douglas Rynar (captain)/Gr.-8/Bridgewater, and Ashley Yang/Gr.-6/Basking Ridge. RoboDance Awards: The Best Programming Award: The Lunatics Assassin Droids -  Tanay Trivedi/Gr.-8/Bridgewater and Elvin Kong/Gr.-8/Whitehouse Station The Most Innovative Award:  Stitch -  Brenna Herrity/Br.-6/Yardville,  Colleen McConnell/Gr.-5/Skillman, Val Post/Gr.6/Basking Ridge Colleen and Val interviewed by the NY1 News. The Stitch's dancing Bot in hawaii costume. Captured by NY1 News. RoboRescue B: The SR-chitect -
	This team consists of 3 members, Andre Ghou/Gr8/Warren, Eric Ward/Gr7/Flemington, Michael Xie/Gr7/Martinsville.
There is no division of secondary and primary levels in this game. Therefore, they were competing against with high schoolers. SR-chitect  was the only non-high school team in this competition. Their performance was truly awesome. They use left-wall following rule with P.I.D. algorithms with two Electro-proximity Optical Detection sensors.  Being able to complete the whole maze with only a couple of glitches! Ability to successfully negotiate all turns in the maze is the most difficult task.  Not a single team were able to negotiate all paths either.  However,  due to the mislocation of the thermal sensor, they failed to recorgnize the victims. As a result of that, they scored less than one of the high school teams. At the second round, negotiating the paths was less successful than the first round due to their last minute attempt to relocate the thermal sensor.  But then, their bot recognized all victims!  RoboSoccer: The Great White Shark  Our  Great White Shark team consists of 4 members, Ben Brown/Gr.-10/Warren, Matthew Goldman (captain)/Gr.-11/Bedminster, Avery Katko (captain)/Gr.-11/Long Valley, and Morgan Van-Blarcum/Gr.-10/Vorhee.  They created programs with intricate, but effective program algorithms, as well as a  robust and innovative holonomic drive system.   Great White Shark lost to a couple of opponent teams which used a system with much more powerful motors system,16x stronger than what we used.  However, their software architecture design is truly superb. The team will complete a technical paper about their work and submit to the technical committee like the ACM for review.                Images from NY1 News.    The Quad Holonomic Drive System        The Player Bot with collison detection mechanism.     The Goalie Bot      RoboRescue A: The Electric Brain    This team consists of 4 membersl, Abdullah Abdel-Raouf/Gr.-7/N. Brunswick, Tarin Clott/Gr.4/Basking Ridge, William Cui (co-captain)/Gr.6/Basking Ridge, and Kushal Patel(captain)/Gr.6/Piscataway.  They all are 1st time participants. As a first-time participant, the team has achieved tremendous amount of work.This team consists of 4 membersl, Abdullah Abdel-Raouf/Gr.-7/N. Brunswick, Tarin Clott/Gr.4/Basking Ridge, William Cui (co-captain)/Gr.6/Basking Ridge, and Kushal Patel(captain)/Gr.6/Piscataway.  They all are 1st time participants. As a first-time participant, the team has achieved tremendous amount of work. Mentor: Matthew Goldman/Technical mentor for Teams Droidchitect and The Lunatics Assassin Droids. Head Coach for all: Elizabeth Mabrey

2010 RCJ

The Event was held on April 11th  at the NY Hall of Science in Queens, NY. 

	The First Place: Omega Kapa Omega Michael X., Sunny A.and David H.
	The Second Place: The Symmetrical Turtles Akash K., Dhevin G., and Stephen T.
	The First Place:To The M.A.K.S.- Michelle L., Ashley Y., and Katherine A.

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RCJ Competition 2010
Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey is the head coach for all teams. Mentors: Matthew Goldman (age 16).
We have 12 teams this year. 10 Rescue teams and 2 Soccer teams.
The Flyer Windex -Brian, Brady, Doug	Team Scuba - Aum,Uday,Andrew
Apollo - Rachel,Seneca,Eric	ImaginaryNumbers - Nikhil S., Rohan, Andre
Omega - Michael X,Sunny, David H.	To The M.A.K.S. - Michelle, Ashley, Casey(Katherine)
N.E.R.D.S - Elvin,Tanay	Peanut Butter Jelly Time - Luke, Aaditya
The Symmetrical Turtles - Akash, Stephen, Dhevin	Pi^3 - Roshun, Salil, Sam
The League of Super Evils - Oliver, Marc, Catherine	The Greater White Shark - Matthew,Avery,Morgan, Ben

Special Remarks:

A lot of thanks to Matthew Goldman who taught both the Symmetrical Turtles and the Pi^3, while he himself is also one of the main developer of the awesome (complex) robosoccer game. He is currently attending 10th Grade at the Bernardsville High  School.

There are simply too many impressive and inspiring stories to be covered here to tell how much effort and wonderful work these children have contributed and gained from this year experience. Bravo! Everyone!

Recognition Letter from Senator Christopher Bateman

Letter addressed to one of our team members.

Recognition Letter from Congressmen Leonard Lance

Letter addressed to one of our team members Rachel Goldman.

2009 RCJ

The Event was held on May 3rd at the NY Hall of Science.  We have nine teams with various levels participated in the 2009 game.

RoboCup Junior 2009
Head Coach: Elizabeth Mabrey for all teams.
Stormbotics	Matthew Goldman, Avery Katko, Marc Bruggemann, Oliver Katz	The League of Super Evil	Oliver Katz, David DeKime, Catherine Dai,
JustThisCool	Michael Cannizzaro, Morgan Van Blacrum, Nikhil Shah	RoboDragon	Rachel Goldman, Michael Xie, Sunny Aggarwal
Team With No Name	Andre Gou, Ben Brown, Nikhil  Kapadia	RoboRevolution	David Hua, Aum Chatterjee, Akash Kumar
The Intripeds	Tanay Trivedi, Benjamin Wechter, Luke Dai,	BeatU	Andrew Amerman, Eric Ward, Uday Shankar, Brian Breslow,
The PopTarts	Douglas Rynar, Colin Reese, Brady Bean

2009 International RCJ in Austria

Representing the United States in the RoboCupJunior division of the competition were Andrew Amerman, Sunny Agarwal, Rachel Goldman, Uday Shankar, Michael Xie, and Eric Ward. They competed against other young students their age from over 30 different countries including China, Japan and Germany.

Press Release: Star Ledger article Branchburg's Storming Robots take on the Int'l.

2010 International RCJ

Once again, Storming Robots team has won the USA RCJ  and is invited to representing the United States at the 2010 International Tournament. 

Due to the cost and event dates landing during school exam time, parents decide not to attend this International Event at Singapore.