[robocup-worldwide] Call for Participation: RoboCup at Home Education Challenge @ European RoboCupJunior Championship (EURCJ) 2018

[Jeffrey Tan]

=== RoboCup at Home Education Challenge @ European RoboCupJunior
Championship (EURCJ) 2018 ===

May 29 ~ June 1, 2018
Centro Congressi, Montesilvano, Italy
http://www.robocupjunior.eu/

<<Introduction>>

The European RoboCupJunior Championship (EURCJ) is a new
super-regional RoboCup event that has the objective of organizing
RoboCupJunior competition at European level. EURCJ 2018 is the first
edition of EURCJ and is organized by the Italian RoboCupJunior
Regional Committee and by the Italian RoboCup Regional Committee, in
collaboration with other European RoboCupJunior regional committees.

RoboCup at Home Education is an educational initiative that promotes
educational efforts to boost RoboCup at Home participation and service
robot development. RoboCup at Home Education takes inspiration from @Home
tasks and aims at forming teams that may become @Home teams in the
future. This education initiative plays the role to bridge between
Major @Home league and RoboCupJunior, providing an educational
platform to let Junior teams to participate and gain experience, in
order to prepare themselves for the step up @Home league.

With this inspiring motivation, we are honored to host the
RoboCup at Home Education Challenge in the European RoboCupJunior
Championship (EURCJ) 2018 on this coming May 2018 for the
participation from European community. The Education Challenge will be
conducted in a Workshop+Competition format to encourage totally
inexperienced but interested participants to learn how to build the
robot in the workshop and take part in the competition.

http://www.robocupathomeedu.org/challenges/robocup-home-education-challenge-eurcj-2018

<<Schedule>>

5/29 (Tue)
- AM Workshop 1 Navigation
- PM Competition Task: Help-me-carry

5/30 (Wed)
- AM Workshop 2 Speech, Vision
- PM Competition Task: Speech and Person Recognition

5/31 (Thu)
- AM Workshop 3 Arm, System Integration
- PM Competition Task: Restaurant

6/1 (Fri)
- AM Finals

<<How to Participate>>

Step 1 - Intention of Participation
Fill in and submit the online Intention of Participation form below
(each per team). If you have any difficulty to submit online, please
contact oc at robocupathomeedu.org

Intention of Participation form: https://goo.gl/forms/oPmjpmZnYri4Pxsj1

Step 2 - Registration
The OC will review your entry and response by email after you have
submitted the online form in Step 1. Complete the registration
procedure according to the instruction in the email.

<<Important Dates>>

Intention of Participation due: April 30, 2018
Registration due: May 10, 2018

Please visit the official website for more information. You can
contact us via oc at robocupathomeedu.org

Best Regards,
RoboCup at Home Education Challenge 2018 Organizing Committee