Monday, November 12, 2018

First Robotics Tournament

The 2018 robotics tournaments have started, so I'm spending the next 4 weekends refereeing. My friend who moved to Europe 3 years ago has returned as head referee (shows how much fun this goofy volunteer job is).
This year's theme is space. While you're not allowed to decorate the robots, the kids get quite inventive on the costumes they choose to wear. The team from Principia school looked like they walked right off the space shuttle with their orange canvas suits. I should have taken more pictures, because there were shiny silver skirts, galaxy-printed sweatpants, and lots of LED-lighted headbands. I think my simple zebra-striped shirt looked rather boring amongst all the glitter.