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 Theme:
Kirkland MS, Team 3, 2025 1st Place
Event Deadlines
January 22, 2026
Students submit a link to a video of the robot operating within a portion of the course, to demonstrate that they have a working robot, and have begun working on accomplishing tasks.
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 2026
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 19, 2025 ($35)
Compete in the January 22, 2026 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 8, 2026
State Conference registration week February 23-27, 2026 (see state conference page for details)
At the state level, 3 teams per chapter may compete.
Additional Information
Event Coordinator:
Event Manager: Kari Potter, kari.potter@shorelineschools.org
