Zone Zeal: The playing field is a carpeted, rectangular area with three moveable goals. At each end of the field are
the alliance stations for the students and mentors. There are 60 soccer balls, and 3 goals with
castered wheels which may be moved around the playing field. All goals start
equally spaced across the center of the playing field. The playing field is broken up into 5 zones. At the start of each match, each alliance station contains 10 orange soccer balls. 20 yellow soccer balls will be centered along each side of the playing field. All balls may be used to
score points. During a match, the alliance scores points by placing balls into goals and positioning robots and/or goals in the scoring zones at the end of the match. At the end of each match, points are awarded as follows:
- 1 point for each ball if all conditions below are true:
- Contained in or supported by a goal
- Not in contact with or supported by your or your partner’s robot (opposing alliance
touching balls in a goal does not negate their value.)
- Not in contact with the carpet
- The goal is “in” your ball zone (the proper ball scoring zones are Zones 1, 2, 4, and 5)
- 10 points for each goal in your goal zone (Zone 2 or 4)
- 10 points for each robot in your robot zone. (Zone 1 or 5)
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Our robot from 2002 had one goal. We focused more on sheer power and maneuverability. In order to do so, we incorporated two drives. First, the crab drive, a system which allows the driver to move the robot just like a crab: sideways, forwards, and backwards. The second drive, the tank drive, gave us more traction and torque to stabilize the robot. |
| Event | Award | Description |
Great Lakes Regional
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI
March 21st, 2002 - March 23rd, 2002 | Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Entrepreneurship | |
Motorola Midwest Regional
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
March 28th, 2002 - March 30th, 2002 | #1 Seed Award | |
| #1 Alliance | Team #111 - Motorola & Rolling Meadows High School & Wheeling High School Schaumburg, IL USA & Team #45 - Delphi Automotive Systems/Ivy Tech State College & Kokomo High School Kokomo, IN USA & Team #79 Honeywell Space Systems Clearwater & East Lake High School Clearwater, FL USA |
| Imagery Award | |
| Regional Finalist Award | |
Championship Event
Walt Disney World's EPCOT
Orlando, FL
April 25th, 2002 - April 27th, 2002 | Autodesk Inventor Award - Grand Prize | |
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Zone Zeal: The playing field is a carpeted, rectangular area with three moveable goals. At each end of the field are
the alliance stations for the students and mentors. There are 60 soccer balls, and 3 goals with
castered wheels which may be moved around the playing field. All goals start
equally spaced across the center of the playing field. The playing field is broken up into 5 zones. 
Our robot from 2002 had one goal. We focused more on sheer power and maneuverability. In order to do so, we incorporated two drives. First, the crab drive, a system which allows the driver to move the robot just like a crab: sideways, forwards, and backwards. The second drive, the tank drive, gave us more traction and torque to stabilize the robot.
