One contest to be held was a Lego Walker Sumo Wrestling Contest. We agreed two motors, two weights and that the walker has to fit into a box a foot on a side. I was intrigued by the idea of a walker contest. There is an awful lot of research on walking machines, from NASA to BattleMech fans. Traditionally PCS has hosted a Sumo robot contest with Robots trying to push each other out of a marked circle, six feet in diameter. Students figured out though, that you build a bullet proof gear train and stack a million bricks on your project and build it like a pyramid...you couldn't lose. Walkers reduced everyone to ground zero, since many students had not experimented with them! Everone's imagination was captured. I had one student come in for twice as many sessions so he could experiment with different designs.

Congratulations to Mike! He won hands down ( even flipping THE ULTIMATOR completely over ). He knows his walkers!