The EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Methods (UK-RAS) Community is happy to announce the official launch of its 2023 competitions, inviting the UK’s major schoolchildren to share their inventive robotic designs and imaginative tales with a panel of consultants, for an opportunity to win some distinctive prizes. These annual competitions, which have proved vastly widespread with budding authors and illustrators nationwide, at the moment are returning for the fourth 12 months.
The “Draw A Robotic” competitors challenges kids in Key Stage 1 (aged 5-7 years outdated) to design a robotic that they’d prefer to see sooner or later. Kids can use whichever drawing supplies they like — paper, pens, pencils, paints, crayons, and even pure supplies — to create their best robotic design, and the robotic could be designed to carry out any process or job. Competitors members will be capable to clarify their robotic’s capabilities by labelling devices and options on the drawing and writing a brief design spec.
For the “As soon as Upon A Robotic” writing competitors, Key Stage 2 kids (aged 7-11 years outdated), are invited to put in writing an imaginative brief story that includes any form of robotic – or robots – their creativeness can conjure! Kids may have as much as 800 phrases to inform their inventive robotic tales they usually can select any literary style they like. It could possibly be a spine-tingling horror, an action-packed journey, or perhaps a light-hearted comedy.
ZOOG by Matilde Facchini, age 7 (Draw a Robotic 2022 Winner)
Plan-o-bot by Tehmina Walker, age 6 (Draw a Robotic 2021 Winner)
The 2 competitions might be judged by robotics consultants from the organising ESPRC UK-RAS Community, plus two very particular invited judges. The writing competitors might be judged this 12 months by award-winning creator Sharna Jackson, whose inspiring and mystifying books embrace Excessive-Rise Thriller and The Good Flip. The drawing competitors might be judged by internationally acclaimed Anglo/American creator, illustrator and artist Ted Dewan, creator of the Emmy-Award-winning animated tv sequence Bing.
This 12 months’s unique prize packages embrace:
Draw A Robotic Competitors winner
Thames & Kosmos Coding and Robotics package – contributed by competitors accomplice the College of Sheffield Superior Manufacturing Analysis Centre (AMRC)
A tour of the AMRC’s Manufacturing unit 2050 in Sheffield, the UK’s first state-of-the-art manufacturing facility devoted to conducting collaborative analysis into reconfigurable digitally assisted meeting, part manufacturing and machining applied sciences
A replica of the e-book “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, signed by competitors choose Ted Dewan
Draw A Robotic Competitors runner-up
4M Inexperienced Science Photo voltaic Hybrid Energy Aqua Robotic – contributed by competitors accomplice the UKRI Belief Worthy Autonomous Methods (TAS) hub
A replica of the e-book “Prime Secret”, signed by competitors choose Ted Dewan
As soon as Upon A Robotic Competitors winner
Lego Mindstorms Robotic Inventor package – contributed by competitors accomplice Birmingham Excessive Robotics Lab
A tour of the Excessive Robotics Lab in Birmingham and a robotics masterclass from RobotCoders for the winner and a good friend
Printed copy of the successful story with bespoke illustrations by illustrator and science communicator Hana Ayoob
A replica of the books “The Good Flip” and “Black Artists Shaping the World”, signed by competitors choose Sharna Jackson
As soon as Upon A Robotic Competitors runner-up
Maqueen Lite – micro:bit – contributed by competitors accomplice The Nationwide Robotarium
A replica of the e-book “Excessive-Rise Thriller”, signed by competitors choose Sharna Jackson
For extra info, particulars of prizes, judging standards and to submit an entry, please go to
Each competitions are open for entry from the tenth January and can shut for submissions on the twenty third April. The winners might be introduced at a particular digital award ceremony resulting from be held on twenty second June 2023.
EPSRC UK-RAS Community Chair Prof. Robert Richardson says: “We’re completely delighted to be launching these two incredible competitions for major schoolchildren for the fourth 12 months operating, which supply the subsequent era a inventive solution to interact with the thrilling world of robotics and automation. We are able to’t wait to see the creativeness and ingenuity that the nation’s younger authors and artists carry to those challenges, and we stay up for the very pleasurable process of judging this 12 months’s entries.”
The 2 inventive competitions for younger kids have been first launched in 2020 for UK Robotics Week, now the UK Pageant of Robotics – a 7-day celebration of robotics and clever programs held on the finish of June. This annual celebration is hosted by the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Methods (UK-RAS) Community, which supplies educational management in robotics and coordinates actions at 35 accomplice universities throughout the UK.
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EPSRC UK-RAS Community
brings collectively the UK’s core educational capabilities in robotics innovation below nationwide coordination and encourages educational and trade collaboration to speed up the event and adoption of RAS.
EPSRC UK-RAS Community
brings collectively the UK’s core educational capabilities in robotics innovation below nationwide coordination and encourages educational and trade collaboration to speed up the event and adoption of RAS.
