This week, we have launched the AUT SOSE (Society of Student Engineers) ROBODEMO Robotics Competition with a launch presentation where more than 90 eager engineering students turned up. This competition will give engineering students the tools and resources to design and create some awesome robots. The aim of the competition is to design robots which will either destroy or immobilise your opponent in a "sumo" style competition.

The competition will be held at the Tech.Ed student day event on Friday, 26 August in the SkyCity Theatre in Auckland. We are expecting more than 700 students to attend this event in Auckland this year. There will be a variety of international and local speakers presenting the latest in Microsoft technology, partners talking about graduate recruitement opportunities and plenty more. I've been spending quite a lot of time planning for some surprises on the day, so make sure you're there!

Register to attend the event at:
www.microsoft.co.nz/teched/studentday

For more information about the ROBODEMO competition, check out here: http://www.aut.ac.nz/schools/engineering/society_of_student_engineers_-_sose/news_and_events/