In our sincere efforts to have students apply knowledge gained in our math and science classes, students in the 6th grade have been designing, building and programming semi-autonomous robots. Full autonomous robots are like robots in the Terminator movies….so we avoid those! Instead students have been on a fast paced roller coaster ride to develop bots that have offensive strategies as simple as pushing to more complex strategies such as pulsing mini appendages to snag or flip opponents. Simultaneously students have also develop strategies to stay on the Sumo Wresting board using both digital “touch” sensors and analog “color” sensors. Their appearance at last weekends annual RoboExpo continues to excite and intrigue the wide variety of participants who came and our students had fun testing their robots on a significantly different playing surface.