Hardware Competition

What is Hardware Competition

A student-centered program focused on giving college students a unique and exciting learning opportunity with robotics. Each year, teams take on a new game where they design, build, test, and program a fully Autonomous Robot to perform a series of tasks. The competition is held during the IEEE SoutheastCon.

What is Mining Mayhem

The year is 2047. After GRID successfully deflected asteroids from comet 2047-5-L1, it was discovered that they contained valuable materials, Geodinium and Nebulite. Your team’s rover is recruited to quickly collect these Astral Materials before the asteroids sail off into space, never to be seen again. Your robot touches down with T-3 minutes till the point of no return, so you have to collect as many astral materials as possible, put them into cosmic shipping containers, and bring them to the rendezvous pad communicated from the telemetry. There are also reports of a strange geographical feature like a cave… With the amazing materials your robot collects, the world will be able to build new technologies never seen before!

Documents:

Rules Docs

Key Dates

January 1st , 2025  Competition rules are posted

February  1st , 2025 Registration for the Competition opens. 

March 28th-29th , 2025 Competition occurs at SoutheastCon

Expected team size:

– Each branch can have 1 team in this competition

– Team size will be 5 undergrad students. Teams can have graduate students on their team but each graduate student will count as 2 undergrad. Therefore, if a school wanted to make a team of 2 grad students then they would be able to also have 1 undergrad. 

Key Dates

January 1st , 2025  Competition rules are posted

February  1st , 2025 Registration for the Competition opens. 

March 28th-29th , 2025 Competition occurs at SoutheastCon

 Expected team size:

– Each branch can expect to have 1 team in this competition

– Official team sizes are still being determined. Students should plan for no more than 5 people on a team. Teams will be able to have graduates and undergraduates on the same team but graduates will count as 2 undergrads. 

This competition is moving back to the pre pandemic model where there will be a writen competition on Friday and the top 4 teams will continue onto a finals competition on Saturday morning.

Below are the key dates for this competition

Key Dates

January 1st , 2025 Ethics competition rules are posted

February  1st , 2025 Registration for the Ethics Competition opens. 

March 28th-29th , 2025 Ethics competition occurs at SoutheastCon

Expected Team Sizes:

– Each branch can have 1 team in this competition

– Team size will be 3 undergrad students (teams can have a graduate student but they will count as 2 undergrads). Each team will have to also bring a grader. 

Key Dates

January 1st , 2025 Competition rules are posted

February  1st , 2025 Registration for Competition opens. 

March 28th-29th , 2025 Networking competition occurs at SoutheastCon

Expected team size:

– Students compete as individuals and not a team

– There is no limit on the number of students that compete from a university

– This is a perfect competition for students to do in addition to other SoutheastCon competitions. This is fully self driven and would not overlap with any other competition

Key Dates

January 1st , 2025  Competition rules are posted

February  1st , 2025 Registration for the Competition opens. 

March 28th-29th , 2025 Competition occurs at SoutheastCon

Expected Team Size:

– Students compete as individuals

– Each branch is allowed to have one undergrad and one grad in this competition

Key Dates

January 1st , 2025  Competition rules are posted

February  1st , 2025 Registration for the Competition opens. 

March 28th-29th , 2025 Competition occurs at SoutheastCon

Expected team size:

– Each branch can compete as a team. Only one branch per university can enter