RoboPlay Competition is an annual culminating event for the C-STEM program. The event brings the C-STEM community together to organize RoboPlay Challenge Competition in various regions on a Saturday by the end of May each year to further engage students in project-based team activities and to showcase their accomplishments and creativity.

Both RoboPlay Challenge Competition and RoboPlay Video Competition using Barobo Linkbot are designed to support math and computer science standards in grades 5-12.

Various C-STEM awards and scholarships are presented at the awards ceremonies to recognize students’ achievements and inspire them to pursue computing and STEM-related careers and post-secondary study. The awards include

C-STEM is a UC Approved Educational Preparation Program for Undergraduate Admission for both K-12 and Community College students to all UC campuses. Participation in RoboPlay Competition and receiving a C-STEM award are recognized in the UC admissions process as achievements that have explicitly prepared students for college and career. New undergraduate applicants in UC on-line application can select C-STEM as a UC Approved Educational Preparation Program to include their participation in RoboPlay Competition and various C-STEM awards.

Diversity in RoboPlay Competition

% Underrepresented Groups

	Challenge	Video
2015	56.5%	65.1%
2016	54.4%	60.0%
2017	56.6%	60.7%
2018	59.5%	54.7%

% Female Students

	Challenge	Video
2015	33.0%	30.2%
2016	33.2%	36.7%
2017	34.3%	39.3%
2018	35.1%	36.6%

% Underrepresented Minority

	Challenge	Video
2015	36.4%	50.3%
2016	34.3%	38.7%
2017	36.4%	45.1%
2018	41.8%	34.0%

Article

4/20/2018, RoboPlay Competiton for learning math, by Emma Kristovich, a former Livermore High C-STEM student and current RoboPlay Coordinator for the UC Davis C-STEM Center, a sophomore at UC Davis majoring in Computer Science and Engineering, and a UC Regents Scholar.

RoboPlay Competition