Bellingham Robotics Society to Hold Robot Festival Feb. 19
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BELLINGHAM – The Bellingham Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Society (BAIRS) will hold the sixth Northwest Robot Festival from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 19 at the American Museum of Radio and Electricity, 1312 Bay St.
The event is free and open to the public.
Anyone with an interest in robotics, no matter the age, is invited to come and enjoy the robot events and displays. The goal is to create an interesting, inspiring and open environment for everybody to experience the joy of making robots and exploring artificial intelligence.
Attendees will have the chance to see the maze-solving robot display and build an actual robot at the festival. Robot entries may compete in the robot display, robot sumo, fast track race and line-following matches. Prizes will be awarded for best engineered, most intelligent, best programmed, most creative, most useful, fastest, best learner, sumo champions, best on-site reassembled, most efficient and judges' choice.
For more information on the robot festival contact Jianna Zhang, BAIRS president and associate professor within Western Washington University’s Computer Science Department at Jianna.Zhang@gmail.com, or visit the BAIRS website at http://all-aces.org/bairs/.
BAIRS is a non-academic and nonprofit organization affiliated with and supported by the Computer Science Department at WWU. It is a diverse group of elementary, middle and high school students as well as college students and adults who are interested in learning about and developing projects in artificial intelligence and robotics.
The group meets at 10 a.m. on the second Saturday of the every month during the academic year at WWU’s Communications Facility 404. Parking is available in the 12A lot with no permit needed on weekends.