This year competetion went like this: 1. Put on robot - robot should find white line or track and stay within the track 2. Once end of track is reached, robot comes across tray full of sponges and stops 3. Robot should identify color red sponges (from an assortment of white, blue, yellow etc) from the rack,, and using an arm, should reach out and pick 'red' sponges only 4. Then robot should go back on the track and drop the red sponges on a tray awaiting on the other end 5. Then robot should go back and pick out red sponges again That was the way the competition went - and as far as recall, a private university won. == winner is whoever has the most red sponges trick is your robot's arm should not be clumsy - e.g upset the tray of sponges,, drop the sponges while transporting them and also distinguish colors.. <this was done in kenya :-) >