Introduction

In this Unit, you will learn how to play in the Cube Collector competition with your Clawbot. Each match in the Cube Collector competition consists of a driver control run and an autonomous run. In this Unit, you will iterate on your driver strategy, code, and game strategy to maximize your score in the competition! Watch the animation below to see how the Clawbot moves the cubes on the Field both driving and autonomously, in an example of a Cube Collector competition match. 

In the animation, an IQ Clawbot is positioned in the middle of the right wall on a 3 x 4 Field with two scoring zones on the far left: a green one at the top and a blue one at the bottom. Each scoring zone has a matching colored cube attached, and eight additional cubes (four blue, four green) are placed at Field line intersections. A timer and a Brain icon, indicating autonomous competition, are displayed. After a countdown, the Clawbot drives forward, then picks up and stacks a blue cube in the blue scoring zone. The video briefly fades to signify time passing. Next, the Clawbot places the last blue cube in the blue scoring zone. The autonomous phase score is tallied, then the icon switches to a Controller for the driving phase, where the Clawbot sorts and stacks cubes until time runs out and the final score is tallied.

In the Cube Collector competition, your robot will compete to get the highest score!

• Drive your robot to move, sort, and stack cubes in the scoring areas.
• Code your robot to score cubes autonomously.
• The team with the most combined points at the end of both the driver control and autonomous runs, wins!

Watch this video below to learn about what an engineering notebook is and why you should use an engineering notebook.

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