Hello! Happy New Year and welcome to the start of our Maker Challenges for this season. The first challenge in this year’s Let’s Avishkaar series is The Marching Robots Challenge.
The Challenge is now LIVE and will run till 31st January 2018. 2 winners ( Most Innovative Robot and Most Popular Robot) will win exciting prizes!
So design your Robot, submit your entry and leave no stone unturned to WIN!
Please go through the crucial guidelines given below before entering The Marching Robots Challenge.
HOW TO ENTER THE CONTEST:
- Create a Marching Robot for the parade. Check design guidelines below
- Send a request to join the Let’s Avishkaar facebook community. https://www.facebook.com/groups/letsavishkaar/
- Once your membership is approved, upload the video to your personal Facebook profile and share it with the Let’s Avishkaar community.
- It’s mandatory to use the hashtag #TheMarchingRobotsChallenge on your status.
GUIDELINES FOR DESIGNING THE ROBOT
- The Indian national flag / Ashoka chakra should be placed on the robot so that it can be considered as a Parade Robot.
- Robot Should be made only from The Avishkaar kits only available at www.avishkaar.cc/products
- A robot can be” decorated or jazzed up” with colors and other additional stuff which are not in the Avishkaar Kit.
VIDEO CREATION GUIDELINES
- Ensure that you shoot a good quality video with clear audio (if any)
- Robot should be shown moving as a part of parade.
- An identification sign/mark of India should be visible on the robot in the video.
- Video length should not exceed the time limit of 150 seconds.
- A video should be captured in robot’s moving direction from LEFT TO RIGHT.
WINNING CRITERIA AND PRIZES
- 2 Winners will be decided by our panel of experts.
- Winning categories are “Most Innovative Robot” & “Most popular robot”.
- The popularity of robot will be decided on the basis of video’s likes, comments & share.
- The innovation of robot will be decided on the basis of design, decoration & parade.
- 2 lucky winners will be announced on 3rd February 2018.
- The winners will get exciting goodies as prizes.
So now that you’ve gone through the Guidelines, wait no further and start preparing your Robot for the Challenge! The Marching Robots Challenge ends on 31st January 2018. So hurry!
Good Luck! Keep Tinkering. Keep Inventing.
Team Avishkaar