The Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER), produced by KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, is a professional conference designed for elementary, middle and high school students, their teachers and mentors, technology education professionals, robot enthusiasts, and invited professional guests. The GCER gives attendees the inspiration and experience of a professional conference, encouraging students to further their knowledge, network with other students from around the world and pursue related careers. Teachers and mentors have many opportunities to network, exchange best practices and develop new approaches to STEM education.
In addition to guest speaker sessions and breakout sessions, GCER also features several autonomous robotics competitions and events. The International Botball Tournament is always a highlight when teams from around the world gather to try their skills at the current year’s Botball game challenge. The conference also features the International Junior Botball Challenge.
The KISS Institute for Practical Robotics team would like to thank all the amazing teams, coaches, parents, volunteers, and fans who helped make GCER 2025 a success!
We’ve added event photos to our Botball Flickr Gallery, so feel free to download and share your favorite moments! We are currently adding more photos to share, so keep checking back to view more. If you have photos or videos you would like to share, please email them to info@kipr.org.
If you have photos or videos you’d like to share, please send them to info@kipr.org.
A special thank you to Chen Zhengrong at ITCCC, the students at Noble Public Schools, and the students at Dunbar Intermediate School for helping capture this year’s amazing
Analyzing Robotic Sensor Values for Enhanced Performance (PDF)
Aaron Xie, Alan Gao
Real-Time Control of Multiple Servo Motors (PDF)
Rocky Ratia
Aloy Kimball
Robotics Applications in Asteroid Mining (PDF)
Samuel DeGroot
Teaching JBC and Botball Movement Commands: A Scope and Sequence from Beginner to Advanced
Roger Clement
Muyao Zhang, Neo Lu, Ya Jin
A Next.js Blockly-Based C++ Code Generator for a Custom Robotics Library (PDF)
Leopold Kernegger, Ankush Ahuja
Applied Machine Learning in Sensor Calibration – A Clustering Technique (PDF)
Abigail Liu, Aaron Xie, Oliver Jiang
Choros: A Distributed Coordination Framework for Multi-Robot Botball Systems (PDF)
Ankush Ahuja, Leopold Kernegger
Tobias Madlberger, Leander Klik, Matthias Greil
Real-Time Robot Localization on the Botball Table Using a USB Camera and CNNs (PDF)
Tobias Madlberger, Leander Klik, Johanna Pucher
Wombat Mecanum Wheel Control System: Implementation and Omnidirectional Motion Algorithms
Oscar Yan, Muyao Zhang, Oliver Yan