SOUTHFIELD —Teams from Florida in the United States and Canada, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Hong Kong, Mexico, Macau, Taiwan and more internationally, earned first-place awards at Lawrence Technological University’s 2026 Robofest World Championships, held May 14-16 on LTU’s Southfield campus. Members of high school teams competed for scholarships from Lawrence Tech worth up to $80,000 over
SOUTHFIELD - Robofest, hosted by Lawrence Technological University in Southfield May 15-17, was a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots encouraging students to have fun while learning STEAM and Computer Science principles. Students can design, construct, and program the robots using any robotics kit and programming language. Christopher Cartwright, who manages the Robofest
SOUTHFIELD - Autonomous vehicles hold the promise of safer, more sustainable, and more inclusive transportation. So it’s a natural that Robofest, the youth robotics competition created by Lawrence Technological University in 1999, would focus this year’s Game competition on vehicle autonomy. Joining Matt and Mike on MITech TV is Shannon Palonis, who manages Robofest, to
SOUTHFIELD—Autonomous vehicles hold the promise of safer, more sustainable, and more inclusive transportation. So it’s a natural that Robofest, the youth robotics competition created by Lawrence Technological University in 1999, would focus this year’s Game competition on vehicle autonomy. This year’s Game, unveiled in a global Zoom call Friday morning, is called “Autonomous Taxi.” In
SOUTHFIELD - Robofest returns live in 2023 at Lawrence Technological University. Robofest coordinator Shannan Palonis provides details on how grade-school students can compete and how they can earn scholarships to attend LTU. To sign up click on Robofest.Net https://youtu.be/qf2X9hbS4s0
SOUTHFIELD—Lawrence Technological University’s Robofest robotics competition will return to in-person events for its 2022 competition season, leading up to the Robofest World Championships to be held on LTU’s Southfield campus May 12-14, 2022. Robofest kicked off its 23rd annual season Wednesday, Dec. 8 in a Zoom call with teachers, students, and volunteers from around the
SOUTHFIELD - The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation has increased the number of all-girl teams it is sponsoring in Robofest, a competition for student-programmed autonomous robots invented by Lawrence Technological University computer science professor C.J. Chung. The MCWTF will now sponsor 10 Robofest teams with $500 grants that the teams can use toward
ROYAL OAK - Lawrence Technological University's Shannan Palonis is the Coordinator of Robofest, a robotic competition for middle and high school students. LTU hosts the world finals in May. Scholarships are available for students who want to compete in the contest and attend LTU. More at https://robofest.net/ Shannon Palonis To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/mike-brennan-841872555/e163-ltus-robofest
ROYAL OAK - Kathleen Norton Schock makes her monthly appearance to talk Diva Tech Talk and Michigan Council of Women in Technology. Comcast’s Rob Ponto will talk about how the cable company has rolled outs its gigabit broadband service nationwide. Elmer Santos from Lawrence Technological University will provide details of Robofest. MUVE Co-Founder Anthony Shannon
SOUTHFIELD – Robofest, the global competition for autonomous robots for students from grade school through college, will hold an annual kickoff event to mark its 20th anniversary Friday, Oct. 26. The event will be held on the campus where Robofest was developed – Lawrence Technological University in Southfield. Robofest is a festival of competitions with autonomous robots
