Robofest Information

Join us for the 2026 Maritime Robofest Championship on February 8th!

2025-26 Junior and Senior Robofest Game Details and Registration COMING SOON

Two divisions: Junior (grades 5-8) & Senior (grades 9-12)


  • Acadia partners with Robofest on the Junior and Senior Game Competition only. The winning team(s) have the opportunity to move on to Robofest World Championship in Southfield, Michigan at the Lawrence Technological University Campus.
  • The Acadia Bottle Sumo fun event will be offered in Spring 2025 as a workshop (not during the February Robofest Game Competition)
  • The Acadia Robot Programming Competitions DOES NOT include Exhibition, Vision Centric Challenge, RoboParade, Global Robotic Arts Festival, or Unknown Mission Challenge, but if teams would like more information on any of those they can visit www.robofest.net.

If you would like to be added to our contact list for the new season contact: Hannah Fisk hannah.fisk@acadiau.ca

 

 

The Jodrey school of Computer Science, at Acadia University, has partnered with ROBOFEST of Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan USA (2013-14) who have developed a programming challenge for middle-school and high school students, which tests their ability to develop algorithms to solve certain specific problems. This competition is open to students between grades 5-12. Teams will be asked to program their robots to meet challenges which are designed and setup by the Lawrence Technological University. The robot that performs the best, wins.

 

The theme for the 2025-26 Season will be announced on September 26th. Check back here for links to official rulebook and registration!

 

Robot Kits: Any robot kit can be used.  Any programming language can be used.

 

How to Start a New Robofest Team

PLEASE NOTE!
There’s plenty of code out there on the web for your robots. This competition requires that all of the code in your robot unit be written by members of your team. After all, the point is to learn how to program the robots and to have fun using your imagination and the team's computer, logic, mathematic and engineering skills. No code can be used that is not written by a team member.