RoboCup Returns to the US at Georgia Tech!

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1 RoboCup Returns to the US at Georgia Tech! h hat is RoboCup? RoboCup is an annual competition and scientific conference. Georgia Tech is pleased to host the 11th annual RoboCup Championship. RoboCup fosters artificial intelligence and robotics research by providing a set of standard problems where a wide range of technologies can be examined and integrated. The founding goal of RoboCup is, by 2050, to field a robot soccer team able to defeat the human orld Cup Champions. RoboCup research and competition centers on four main themes: RoboCup@Home: RoboCup@Home focuses on real-world applications and humanmachine interaction with autonomous robots that can assist humans in everyday life. RoboCupRescue: Disaster rescue is a serious social issue, which in RoboCupRescue involves a large number of heterogeneous agents in a hostile environment. RoboCupSoccer: Soccer was the original motivation for RoboCup. Besides being a popular worldwide sport, therefore an appropriate medium to attract people to an event, it contains a significant set of challenges. RoboCupJunior: RoboCupJunior takes the RoboCup experience to secondary school children. The focus is on education and outreach to international and local participants.

The founding goal of RoboCup is, by 2050, to field a robot soccer team able to defeat the human orld Cup Champions.

2 Georgia Tech Facts and Figures Year after year, Georgia Tech is consistently the only technological university ranked in U.S. News & orld Report's listing of America's top ten public universities. In addition, Georgia Tech's College of Engineering is consistently ranked in the nation's top five by U.S. News. In terms of producing African American engineering graduates, Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranks Tech No. 2 at the bachelor's level, No. 1 at the master's level, and No. 3 at the doctoral level. These impressive national rankings reflect the academic prestige long associated with the Georgia Tech curriculum. The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's top research universities, distinguished by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. Georgia Tech's campus occupies 400 acres in the heart of the city of Atlanta, where more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive a focused, technologically based education. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in the Colleges of Architecture, Engineering, Sciences, Computing, Management, and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. Georgia Tech consistently ranks among U.S. News & orld Report's top ten public universities in the United States. In a world that increasingly turns to technology for solutions, Georgia Tech is using innovative teaching and advanced research to define the technological university of the 21st century. The university is a national and international leader in scientific and technological research and education, receiving more than $355 million in research awards in fiscal No. 8 public university in the country No. 4 graduate engineering college No. 6 undergraduate engineering college No. 1 industrial engineering program 9 undergraduate engineering programs ranked in the top 10 8 graduate engineering programs ranked in the top 10 No. 2 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to African American students No. 3 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to all categories of minority students No. 7 in engineering bachelor's degrees awarded to Asian American students

In terms of producing African American engineering graduates, Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranks Tech No. 2 at the bachelor's level, No. 1 at the master's level, and No. 3 at the doctoral level.

3 Media Summary RoboCup events have been covered by major international print and video media outlets including CNN (right), Reuters TV, the New York Times, the all Street Journal, and so on. RoboCup 2006 Bremen media coverage featured: Journalists from 21 countries, including: 102 Television journalists 90 Print journalists 22 Radio journalists 16 Internet journalists Articles in print media: 552 Verified print circulation: 95 million Television impressions: at least 93 million TV interviews and reports were interleaved with orld Cup coverage. One spot was viewed by million (29.5% audience rating). A RoboCup TV special aired at midnight each night with 620,000 viewers on average (10-12%).

RoboCup 2006 Bremen media coverage featured: Journalists from 21 countries, including: 102 Television journalists 90 Print journalists 22 Radio journalists 16 Internet

4 Schedule and Venue RoboCup 2007 Atlanta will be held at three venues on the Georgia Tech campus. The main venue is the Campus Recreation Center (CRC). The CRC was also the site of the 1996 Olympic swimming events. RoboCup 2007 Atlanta is part of a series of events hosted at Georgia Tech as part of Robot Summer Georgia Tech is one of the premier engineering universities in the United States, and we are pleased to welcome more than 3000 of the top robotics researchers and students from around the world to our campus: June 15 (TBD): Robot Camp for teams preparing for RoboCupJunior. June 27 - June 30: Robotics Science and Systems: The leading robotics academic conference. July 1: RoboCup participants arrive and begin setup on the Georgia Tech campus. July 2- July 6: RoboCup preliminary competitions. July 7 - July 8: RoboCup Finals July 8 - July 9: RoboCup Symposium: The leading mullti-robot systems conference.

Atlanta is part of a series of events hosted at Georgia Tech as part of Robot Summer. 2007.

5 Broadcast Technologies and On-Air Logo Placement e will provide worldwide live web-based video streaming of our events. The extent of television network coverage is not yet known, but major media outlets have historically covered RoboCup events. e are also pursuing broadcast opportunities with a major network in China. RoboCup 2007 Atlanta has retained Sportvision to provide video special effects and logo placement in our live video broadcast. Stromotion Sportvision has pioneered a technology called Stromotion that freezes the ball or players along their trajectory during video replay. The Stromotion effect has appeared on numerous live sporting television broadcasts, including baseball and soccer. A proposed effect for RoboCup is shown above right. Logo Placement Sportvision is able to place any graphic in any location on or above the field in live broadcast video. This effect has been used in live NFL broadcast. Two proposed effects to promote RoboCup sponsors are shown at left.

6 Sponsor Benefits RoboCup is a non-profit educational and research event that has drawn substantial international media attention every year it has been held. It is the premier research robot competition in the world, and one of the largest robot events overall. e are pleased to offer the following benefits to sponsors. Please let us know which benefits interest you, and we will tailor a package to your needs: Event Sponsor: One sponsor will be recognized as the Event Sponsor. Their logo will be integrated with the RoboCup 2007 Atlanta logo, e.g. Sponsored by Acme Robots. Group 1 benefits: Prominent logo placement on all RoboCup 2007 Atlanta web pages; Logo placement on the walls surrounding robot soccer fields; Logo in RoboCup video and web streaming broadcasts. Group 2 benefits: Seats in VIP boxes for competition events; Participation in RoboCup Executive Committee events and celebrations. Group 3 benefits: Recognition on our website s sponsor page; Acknowledgement in printed materials distributed by RoboCup 2007 Atlanta; Acknowledgement in electronic newsletters distributed by RoboCup 2007 Atlanta; Special T-shirts distributed only to sponsors; Free passes to RoboCup events.

Please let us know which benefits interest you, and we will tailor a package to your needs: Event Sponsor: One sponsor will be recognized as the Event Sponsor.

SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL 2014-2015

HOUGHTON COLLEGE ATHLETICS SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL 2014-2015 One Willard Avenue Houghton, NY 14744 P 585.567.9556 F 585.567.9365 brianna.allen@houghton.edu athletics.houghton.edu THE HIGHLANDER EXPERIENCE