Botball® Team Submissions | KISS Institute for Practical Robotics

Online Documentation Submissions

Throughout the Botball season, your team will use the Team Home Base to post documentation activities detailing your progress. Botball Online Project Documentation (BOPD) activities are a required element of the Botball program and factor into each team’s overall score at their regional tournament. Additionally, awards recognizing excellent documentation will be given out in each region.

Note: All submissions are due by 11:59 PM CST on the deadline.
RegionWorkshopDocumentation 1Documentation 2Documentation 3Tournament
OklahomaJan.1-112/20/20263/6/20263/25/20263/28/2026
IdahoJan. 17-182/13/20263/13/20264/8/20264/11/2026
TexasJan. 17-182/27/20263/27/20264/15/20264/18/2026
Greater San DiegoJan 23-242/20/20264/17/20265/13/20265/16/2026
Greater DCTBDTBDTBDTBD4/11/2026
New EnglandJan 31, Feb 13/6/20264/4/20264/29/20265/2/2026
Northern CaliforniaFeb. 7-83/13/20264/10/20265/6/20265/9/2026
Greater Palm DesertJan 23-242/20/20264/17/20265/13/20265/16/2026
New MexicoFeb. 7-83/6/20263/19/20264/22/20264/25/2026
New York New JerseyMarch 7-84/2/20264/24/20265/13/20265/16/2026

📃 Period 1: Project Plan and Quiz

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📃 Period 2: Mechanical Video and Code Review

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📃 Period 3: Lessons Learned and Survey

Any STL files for use on your robot submitted after the deadline for your region WILL NOT be accepted. Please make sure that if you are submitting an STL that your 3rd period documentation is not late.
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📃 On-Site

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Every Botball team will give an on-site presentation at the regional tournament. We will have volunteers judging the presentations during the regional tournament. A schedule will be given out ahead of the tournament so you know what time you will be presenting.

 

We encourage all teams to prepare for their presentation by reviewing the guidelines below as well as the On-site Presentation Rubric.

 

Presentation Guidelines:

  1. Each team should prepare a virtual presentation or any other virtual aids they wish to use. We recommend including items listed in the rubric in the slides. Teams should have it up and running and ready to go as the 10 minute time limit applies.
  2. Teams are responsible for being ready to present at their appointed time online. Presentations should be given by a maximum of two students. Teams will have no more than 6 minutes to make their presentation and 4 minutes for the Q&A portion.
  3. The onsite judge will expect you to cover the items and topics listed in the rubric.
  4. Your onsite presentation will account for 40% of your documentation score. Documentation accounts for 1/3 of your overall score in the tournament. (At GCER it is 100% of your documentation score.)