Robotics
Description
The mission of your team is to design, build, assemble, and a robot that can complete landing, dropping, identifying and picking up tasks of varying difficulty in a course designed to test the handling, maneuverability, hardware capabilities, and piloting of your robot. The event will consist of a pre-inspection and check-in of the team members, robot and all equipment associated with the control of the robot.
2025-26 Design Challenge:
Shorecrest HS, Team 2, 2026 1st Place
Event Deadlines
January 21, 2027
Students film a video of the robot operating within a portion of the course, upload the video to the platform of their choice, and submit a URL.
NOTE: This is a check-off event for January! Students must submit robot video, to show they are working on the event, but will not receive judge feedback.
April 2027
Robotics event assumptions document
Wednesday night, students sign up for time, and have time to view course.
Students do NOT submit robots Wednesday night.
Washington TSA Rules
To compete, students must:
Belong to a currently affiliated TSA chapter
Be registered (by their TSA advisor) for competition by December 18, 2026 ($35)
Compete in the January 21, 2027 virtual competition (see individual event pages for details)
Be selected as a top competitor in their event(s) and invited to participate at State
Number of competitors is dependent on specific event
Qualifying competitor lists will be published by February 7, 2027
State Conference registration week February 22-26, 2027 (see state conference page for details)
At the state level, 3 teams per chapter may compete.
