On April 24, 2007, CTMA members and students and teachers from Vo-Tech Schools in Connecticut met at The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cromwell for an exciting evening including a BOTS IQ presentation by Mr. Michael Bastoni at Plymouth North High School. That evening many schools and members signed up to assist in our first-ever BOTS IQ competition in 2008.

Our goal is to work with interested Connecticut students and teachers and area companies now to build robots who will then enter the arena to face off in 2008 in a gladiator-style battle of design, construction and endurance!

CTMA is putting together a planning committee for the first annual Connecticut BOTS IQ competition and we need your help! We need a few good men (and women:)) to join our planning committee in order to have a successful first annual event in 2008.

Although we're only at the beginning phase of Connecticut BOTS IQ 2008, many CTMA companies and local schools have signed up to be a part of it. By joining the committee you'll be a part of helping CT students learn, retain knowledge and succeed because they're doing something they like to do!

Connecticut Companies Involved:

Hygrade Precision Technologies, Farmington, CT
Sirois Tool, Inc.Berlin, CT
Kell-Strom Tool, Wethersfield, CT
United Centerless Grinding, East Hartford, CT
Hobson & Motzer, Durham, CT
Vinyl Technical School
Wilcox Technical School
Grasso Technical

Please join our committee, help a CT student succeed and recoup from giving back!

Please contact Barbara Kealey @ 860-635-2862 to sign up for this committee.

Chris Kohm and students from Grasso Technical High School.

Michael Hood and students from Vinyl Technical High School.

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BOTS IQ is an educational program created by the producers of the wildly successful BattleBots television series in which homemade, remote controlled robots face off in competition.

As the television show grew in popularity, so did the number of student fans who wanted to build competitive robots of their own. It soon became evident that this activity, the sport of robots in competition, had the unique potential to impact middle school, high school and college students in a powerful and positive way.