2025 Challenge: Questions and Answers
Below you'll find a list of questions that have been asked about the 2025 Challenge. Click the question to reveal each answer.
The robot can keep driving, slow down, and/or stop while distributing the correct amount of fertilizer (beads) as required; thus, no stopping required. It is up to your team to find the most efficient drive path and programing to achieve the end result (i.e., correct number of beads on each square).
Correct, the colour of beads are irrelevant, the only thing that matters is having the correct quantity of beads on each square.
Each square will require fertilizer (beads), the amount depends on its colour. No matter the configuration, there will always be 110 white squares requiring 1 bead each (110 beads total), 20 red squares requiring 2 beads each (40 beads total), and 24 green squares requiring 3 beads each (72 beads total). Thus, 110+40+72=222 beads need to be distributed properly over the field according to the colours. You decide when and how often to read the squares, which will depend on your programmed drive pattern.
