[Tyler]

Bots High: Documentary on BattleBots
     



Joey Daoud is working on a video
documentary, called Bots High, about high school teams
participating in the BattleBots competition and he needs your help. Joey
writes,

I'm working on a documentary on high school BattleBots. I've
been following multiple teams around since August, leading up to the
National Championship. I'm trying to raise funds to film the
championship with a multi camera crew, as well as travel to San
Francisco to interview the BattleBot creators and builders.

For those who don't remember, Robot
Wars (1998-2004) and BattleBots
(1999-2002), were
much-hyped game/reality television shows featuring competitions between
remote-controlled
vehicles designed to look like robots. Contests consisted of massive
machines that destroyed each other in entertaining ways. The
hype eventually died and the shows were cancelled. What you may not know
is that BattleBots
spun off a high school league known as BOTSIQ which still exists and attempts
to add an
educational aspect to the competition. The BOTSIQ
championship will be held April 14-18 in Miami, Florida.
   

http://robots.net/article/3006.html