Competitions to Support STEM

COMPETITIONS Robot Competitions : What Did We Learn ?

Using Robot Competitions to Promote Intellectual Development

three international mobile robot competitions as the foundation for educational projects in undergraduate and graduate computer science courses. The three competitions—(1) AAAI Mobile Robot, (2) AUVS Unmanned Ground Robotics, and (3) IJCAI RoboCup—were used in different years for an introductory undergraduate robotics course, an advanced graduate robotics course, and an undergraduate practicum ...

How to Rig Elections and Competitions

We investigate the extent to which it is possible to rig the agenda of an election or competition so as to favor a particular candidate in the presence of imperfect information about the preferences of the electorate. We assume that what is known about an electorate is the probability that any given candidate will beat another. As well as presenting some analytical results relating to the compl...

Efficiency of competitions.

League competition is investigated using random processes and scaling techniques. In our model, a weak team can upset a strong team with a fixed probability. Teams play an equal number of head-to-head matches and the team with the largest number of wins is declared to be the champion. The total number of games needed for the best team to win the championship with high certainty T grows as the c...

Competitions and mathematics education

Mathematics competitions, together with the people and organizations engaged with them, form an immense and vibrant global network today. This network has many roles. Competitions help identify students with higher abilities in mathematics. They motivate these students to develop their talents and to seek professional realization in science. Competitions have positive impact on education and on...