About RCAP Education

RCAP Education is an educational initiative for beginners to promote Robotics and AI through RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP).

The following RCAP Education Leagues will be organized at RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2025 (RCAP 2025).

Participation and award certificates will be presented to teams taking part in the RCAP Education Program. Please note that trophies will not be awarded in this category.

1. Age Groups for Junior Teams

  • U12 age group:
    • All members are between 7 and 12
  • U19 age group:
    • At least one member in the team is 13 or above.
    • All members are 19 or below.

Age declaration date: 1 July of the competition year

Age calculator: https://www.calculator.net/age-calculator.html

2. Age Requirement for Mentors

  • Mentor must be 19 years or older as of the competition start date.

3. Junior Team Requirement

  • Technical Roles:
    • Every team member must have a defined technical role (mechanical/design, electrical/sensing, software etc.) and should be able to explain their role during technical judging.
  • Shared Members and Robots:
    • No team member(s) or robot(s) may be shared between teams.
  • Junior Mentor Requirement:
    • Each Junior team must have at least one Junior Mentor registered and attending with the team.

4. Spirit and Behavior

  • Behavior
    • All participants are expected to behave themselves and be considerate and polite especially but not only towards other participants, volunteers, referees and organizers of all Junior and Major Leagues as well as the host venue.
  • Mentoring, Sponsorships and Component Reuse
    • Support from other teams, mentors, teachers, parents, sponsors, internet communities etc. is a core part of how teams learn and grow. To ensure fair competition and maximize learning it is required that none of the support they receive does the work of competing for the team. A good indication is the team’s ability to explain not only what their robots’ components do but also how they do it.
  • Onsite help
    • Teams are only allowed to receive help from other teams during the competition. To this end only student team members are allowed into the student work area except with temporary organizer permission. Anyone else is forbidden from touching the robots or their code, especially for repairs, changes, programming.
  • Violations
    • Teams that repeatedly conduct themselves in an unacceptable way may be disqualified from the tournament and asked to leave the venue.