Participating students arrived at the HP Headquarters Visitors Center where they received instructions for the day and were treated to breakfast and lunch along with prizes from ticket drawings where everyone was a winner including the teachers and chaperones.

Our Aspiring Youth students named their company “Macro-Diversity: Robot Enterprise” and put their robot named “Bird Vumanoid” (a combination of boy, girl, vehicle, human and android) through a series of contests against the other schools. It was a lot of fun for the students, and speakers from HP and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) came to discuss career opportunities in robotics. They revealed new and innovative equipment and software; and afterwards, awards were presented to the winners of the marketing and robotics competitions.