=== RoboCup@Home Education Challenge 2018 @ RoboCup 2018 Montreal ===

June 16 ~ 21, 2018 Montreal, Canada http://www.robocupathomeedu.org

<<Introduction>>

RoboCup@Home Education is an educational initiative that promotes educational efforts to boost RoboCup@Home participation and service robot development. We have started @Home Education activities since 2015, organized various competitions in Japan Open 2015, 2016, 2017, and RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017, which generated more than 10 new teams with more than 50 participants in @Home participation. As an educational effort, since 2016 we have also conducted more than 8 workshops in domestic Japan and overseas. The workshop audiences were ranging from 20~70 participants, not limited to technical university students, but also inexperienced high school students and general public. Last December, in collaboration with MathWorks, we had organized the Education Challenge at RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017 Bangkok, in a combined workshop and competition event. It was a great success in transforming totally inexperienced participants to be able to build robot and ace the competition.

With this inspiring motivation, we are honored to host the RoboCup@Home Education Challenge 2018 Workshop & Competition in the Innovation Summit of RoboCup 2018 Montreal on this coming June 2018 for the participation from worldwide RoboCup community.

http://www.robocup2018.org/?page=innovationsummit&lang=en

<<Schedule & Rules>>

- Workshop and Setup: June 16 ~ 18, 2018 - Competition: June 19 ~ 21, 2018

For more details and competition rules, please visit http://www.robocupathomeedu.org/challenges/robocup-home-education-challenge-...

<<How to Participate>>

Step 1 - Entry Application Fill in and submit the online entry form below (each per team). If you have any difficulty to submit online, please contact oc@robocupathomeedu.org

Online Entry Form: https://goo.gl/forms/pcquv54mYbbWIprf2

Step 2 - Registration Get the registration code from the OC. Usually, it will take a couple of days for the OC to review your entry and to response by email after you have submitted the online form in Step 1. Complete the registration procedure with the registration code according to the instruction in the email.

<<Important Dates>>

Entry Application: March 26 ~ April 30, 2018 Registration: March 26 ~ May 18, 2018

* Due to the availability of the robot hardware provided to the teams during the event, there are limited amount of team slots available for registration. The registration will be closed once the team slots are filled up even before the above due date.

Please visit the official website for more information. You can contact us via oc@robocupathomeedu.org

Best Regards, RoboCup@Home Education Challenge 2018 Organizing Committee