Dear RoboCup Community,

RoboCup@Home Education Challenge is an educational competition platform to cultivate beginner teams for RoboCup@Home challenges. The unique Workshop+Competition format effectively boosts novice participants for challenging service robot development and AI learning within an event time. This year, we are organizing the on-site event at the RoboCup 2023 Bordeaux in July 2023. The event comprises a series of robot building short courses for beginners via online classroom, hands-on workshop and face-to-face on-site competition in Bordeaux. The event details are as follows in the Call for Participation announcement.

We are organizing a Kick-Off Webinar on 29/30 March 2023 to give an overview of the event.

<< Kick-Off Webinar 2023 >> Join either Session A or Session B

= Session A = - 29 March 2023 (Wed) 14:00-15:30 (CET France/Italy) - 29 March 2023 (Wed) 21:00-22:30 (GMT+8 China/Malaysia) - 29 March 2023 (Wed) 09:00-10:30 (EDT New York)

= Session B = - 30 March 2023 (Thu) 19:00-20:30 (CET France/Italy) - 30 March 2023 (Thu) 14:00-15:30 (EDT New York) - 30 March 2023 (Thu) 11:00-12:30 (PDT California)

Join online: https://forms.office.com/r/r15VNvdkUQ

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=== Call for Participation: RoboCup@Home Education Workshop & Challenge 2023 ===

[ Venue ] RoboCup 2023 Bordeaux [ Date ] 4 – 10 July 2023 [ Web ] https://www.robocupathomeedu.org/challenges/robocup-2023-bordeaux

<< Supported by >> - RoboCup Federation - RoboCup 2023 LOC

<< Sponsors and Technical Partners >> - SoftBank Robotics - Jupiter Robot

<< Schedule and Rules >> - Kick-Off Webinar: 29 March 2023 - Fast Track Entry: 30 April 2023 (Last Submission) - Online Classroom: 1 April – 30 May 2023 (By Appointment) - Guided Track Entry: 31 May 2023 (Last Submission) - On-site Workshop & Challenge: 4 – 10 July 2023 (RoboCup)

For the competition rules, please visit https://www.robocupathomeedu.org/rules

<< Categories >> Open Platform (OP) Custom Build Robots - Open category - Junior category (under 19) Standard Platform (SP) Pepper Robot - Open category - Junior category (under 19)

<< How to Participate >> Step 1 - Intend To Participate Step 1 - Kick-Off Webinar Step 2a - Fast Track Entry (without Online Classroom) Step 2b - Guided Track Entry (with Online Classroom) Step 3 - Workshop & Challenge

For more details, please visit https://www.robocupathomeedu.org/challenges/robocup-2023-bordeaux

You can contact us via oc@robocupathomeedu.org

Best regards, RoboCup@Home Education Workshop & Challenge 2023 Organizing Committee