Malicious Intent Robotics

2024 Robot Teams The robots on the drawing board for the 2024 season:

Onyx BaxxStabber CupCaXe

Competition Schedule

Rage in the Cage - Spring 2024 - March 23rd Bloomsburg Area High School

Combat robots and other engineering competitions

Past Events

BotsIQ - 2023 'BurghBash - Rosedale Technical College, Pittsburgh, PA.

XtremeBots- Ohio robotic tournament. Nutter Center, Wright State University, April 18, 2020

NRL National Finals - May 15th- 16th 2020, California University of PA.

Technology Student Association-
TSA State Conference - April 19-22, 2023 Seven Springs Resort, PA

Welcome Registration is NOW open for the Spring 2024 Rage in the Cage - Robotic Tournament to be held on March 23rd at Bloomsburg Area High School. This is an open tournament for any educational teams involved with the National Robotics League. We will be following the NRL Competition Rules & Regulations and NRL Technical Regulations.

The following links should be used to download the Spring 2024 Rage in the Cage - Registration Form and the 2024 Rage in the Cage Competitor Agreement. Please complete both sets of forms. The Registration Form should be emailed to me as soon as you know which robot/robots you are entering. We will only be accepting 32 robots to this event so get your robots reserved before the bracket is full. The Competitor Agreement needs to be signed by all participating students and advisors. The signed copy/copies need to be brought to the event.

New for 2024 we will be opening up a new 3lbs bracket. Our hopes for this weight class is to bring in additional middle school teams and to get more high school teams involved. In addition, we are planning to bring the MiniBots Tournament to the 2025 PA-TSA State Conference. Most of the 3lbs robots can be 3D printed or made from Polycarbonate or UHMW or Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene which can be cut and screwed together with normal woodworking equipment. The following resource page might be helpful to get your MiniBot program started. The MiniBot Rules and Regulations for this weight class can be found Here: Since this is a new weight class for Rage in the Cage, if you have any questions, feel free to contact me. We are currently assembling the mini Rage in the Cage arena and look forward opening up this new opportunity for 2024!

2023-24 Battling Bots robot resources and links can be downloaded Here:

STEM Engineering Competitions links can be downloaded Here:

2023 TEEAP State Conference Battling Bots presentation can be viewed here.

2023 TEEAP State Conference STEM Engineering presentation can be viewed here.

If you have any issues downloading or viewing either PowerPoint presentation, feel free to contact me and I will send you a download link to all the files in the related folder.

2022 TEEAP State Conference links... The Power Point presentation can be viewed here.

Spring 2023 Rage in the Cage Poster - Download and print the 2023 Rage in the Cage Poster... I have a 8.5" x 11" poster available in both a .jpg or PDF format ready to print.

2022 Rage in the Cage Poster

There was some good coverage provided by the Press Enterprise on 03/25/19. Check it out here.

Also, please share the following promotional video from 2018's fall Penns Valley Tournament. Feel free to share it on social media.

Also check out our Video that was created at the 2017 Fall Xtremebots Tournament held in Dayton, Ohio. Bloomsburg finished 2nd and 3rd place at this regional National Robotics League educational engineering tournament.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Md9mqhbs3Y

Important Announcement: The Rage in the Cage spring robot tournament will be held at Bloomsburg Area High School in Bloomsburg, PA on March 28th, 2020. Please check out the official announcement on the NRL website .

Below are two links to the 2013 Rage in the Cage Tournament. The was the first tournament in the newly constructed arena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Md9mqhbs3Y&t=52s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbjFPxwjbkw

For those looking for another robotic tournament to participate in this year, please consider registering for the Rage in the Cage tournament.

2014 Dayton XtremeBots Tournament: We made the journey to the state of Ohio to test our 2014 robot designs. We finished the tournament in first place with Executor and were awarded Best Engieered Robot with our totally new design Foxx. It was a good trip! Check out the following video!

New Laser Engraver- This a really cool video of our Legacy Laser that was made possible by the Alcoa Foundation and Kawneer. We were excited to add this laser to our engineering classroom. You can see from this video we are starting to make some awesome projects that were not possible before this time. Hopefully in the next few weeks will be able to showcase a number of new student projects!

Past Engineering Seasons
The TSA and robotics teams are starting to meet after school to prepare for another challenging year of competition. Be sure to get started soon so we can get to as many tournaments as we can this year. We missed out on most of last year due to student apathy... Don't let it happen to your opportunities! If the results from the Flugtag Event are any indication, Bloomsburg has reloaded and will be making a serious run at the Robotic Title again... ;-)

The 2010 Philadelphia Flugtag was a blast! Hopefully we can get some pictures up in the next few days...

Making these events is the students opportunity and choice. Those that make the commitment will be eligible to attend, those that choose not participate have made their decision not to attend the events.

FLUGTAG is Coming Back to Bloomsburg High School! Having missed out on a few years of flying although we have participated in the SoapBox events. But now Bloomsburg is ready to get their WiiNGS back on! We won the Flugtag event in NYC back in 2003 with Pedal Power and placed second in Cleveland with AeroBus! It's about time for us to return to the podium! The year we will be competing in Philadelphia, Labor Day Weekend, and our team is the Test Crash Kids

The Engineering Program At Bloomsburg:

YouTube video links:

For those BBIQ teams checking out the competition for this years National Championship, take a moment and prepare to witness what this event is all about. EXCITEMENT! Sit down and observe what mini class robots can actually do...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z2FnmhnUl8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8Uh4jItIg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJQgrd93byE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bGdYwRxjNU

2008 was marked with re-building a team from scratch... The entire team went out with a bang last year, actually they graduated. But they definitely made their mark on the BotsIQ world. Their mini robots finished finished 2nd in 2005, first, second and third in 2006 and first, 4th and 8th in 2007. Along the way they have also been awarded the "Best Engineered" robot in 2005 and 2007. The "Coolest Robot" was earned in 2006 and 2007. The team also was given the "Best Documentation" award in 2006 and were runners up in 2007... These students will be missed, but their spirit will live on! Malicious Intent will be back, re-loaded!

For everybody, who doesn't know us or came to this website by "accident": We are Malicious Intent, a team of student engineers from Bloomsburg High School , Pennsylvania . Our major project is building robots that compete against robots from all over the US in a program called "Bots IQ". Maybe you already watched BattleBot fights on television. This is basically what we do. With a long experienced advisor Kirk Marshall, Bloomsburg High School students have the opportunity to join the robotics team. Our robots are all designed, manufactured, tested, and driven by students. We do not have any professional help except for Mr. Marshall. Each student learns how to specialize in one specific sector that he is responsible for. Team members usually stay after school almost every day to improve robots, often having other extracurricular activities such as sports. Over many years, different robots were built and competed. Four of our older robots, Axis, Chrome Dome, X, and Son of X are already retired. New robots are designed and old ones rebuilt usually in the beginning of the year. To sponsor our needs of material etc., we fund raise a lot. We also are always looking for sponsors. If you want to become a sponsor, please select "Sponsors" in the navigation menu at the left. Have fun clicking through our website!

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