The La Trobe Robotics Club Weekly Hangouts are the perfect place to:

• Work on your own robotics or engineering projects
• Take part in optional weekly workshops
• Meet other members, share ideas, and learn together

📅 Weekly Hangouts

• When: Tuesdays, 4:00–7:00 PM
• Where: BS2-03-379A, Bundoora Campus

This semester’s highlights include:

• Week 2 (12 Aug): Fusion 360 + 3D Printing Workshop
• Week 3 (19 Aug): Ball Balancing Project Improvements
• Week 4 (26 Aug): Micromouse Programming Workshop
• Week 5 (2 Sep): Extra Micromouse Programming Session
• Week 6 (9 Sep): Electronics Session

All weeks include time for your own projects or just to hang out. Snacks provided!

🐭 Micromouse Competition – Confirmed!

Our Micromouse Competition is the highlight of the semester, and you can still participate even if you missed the workshops.

• Date: Saturday 30 Aug 2025
• Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Competition starts: 2:00 PM
• Prize: $100 for 1st place!

Bring your creativity, coding skills, or just enthusiasm—any member can win the prize.

📢 Event Poster

Check out the poster above for a quick overview of the event!
You can also share this poster on social media or with your friends on campus.

Join us weekly to learn, build, and compete.
We can’t wait to see what you create!

— La Trobe Robotics Club

Monday 2025-06-02

Free Pizza & Annual General Meeting

13:00-14:00

Location: ED1-501 (Bundoora Campus)

There will be free pizza at the event. Please let us know what pizzas you want here: https://forms.gle/PCzcTabq8hYN8wKP6
The La Trobe Robotics Club is having it’s Annual General Meeting where we vote on the executive and direction of the club for the next year! It is very important we get as many people in as possible, to cater the club to what the students want.

Agenda:

1. Acknowledgement of Country

2. Attendance

3. Observers

4. Apologies for Absence

5. Minutes of last General Meeting + AGM

6. President’s Report

7. Secretary’s Report

8. Treasurer’s Report

9. Introduction of Returning Officers

10. Constitution review and changes

11. Election of Office Bearers
    President
    Vice-President
    Secretary
    Treasurer

12. A.O.C.B.
    Any Other Competent Business gives members the chance to raise issues and matters, including those brought to them by the public.

13. Closure

The La Trobe Robotics Club will be running again in semester 2, and we are planning to have an AGM with free pizza in about a week to celebrate. If you wish to attend please fill out your availability here: https://www.when2meet.com/?30659292-lbjEb

We will choose the best suited time on Sunday and announce an event.

Midsem Break Events

Events at Banyule Nillumbik Tech School

Tuesday 2024-09-10

Ball Balancing Robot Improvement

10:0012:00-14:00

Banyule Nillumbik Tech School

The club will be working on improving the Ball Balancing Robot that you know from our stalls.

Come along and learn about the project. If you have time and the willpower we will also get you to help out the project! (No previous experience required).

You may also simply use this event as a place to work on your projects.

There will be a safety induction at the start. Anyone showing up late will not be allowed to use any tools until they have been inducted.

Wednesday 2024-09-11

Micromouse Maze Assembly

10:00-14:00

Banyule Nillumbik Tech School

The club will be working on manufacturing the maze for the MIcromouse Competition on Saturday. We already have the parts designed.

Come along and learn about how the maze is made! While you are there we can help get you started on your own mechatronics project.

You may also simply use this event as a place to work on your projects.

There will be a safety induction at the start. Anyone showing up late will not be allowed to use any tools until they have been inducted.

Cancelled

Thursday 2024-09-12

Micromouse Programming

13:30-17:30

Banyule Nillumbik Tech School

We will be facilitating a space to work on your code for the upcoming Micromouse Competition. If you don’t know where to start we can help :)

Attendees will be provided with a basic robot that has a distance sensor, allowing it to solve the maze.

You may also simply use this event as a place to work on your projects.

There will be a safety induction at the start. Anyone showing up late will not be allowed to use any tools until they have been inducted.

Weekend Events

Cancelled

Saturday 2024-09-14

Micromouse Competition

10:00-15:30

Bundoora, Room TBC

Agenda:

10:00: Last Minute Programming, maze assembly
11:30: Competition begins
13:00: Lunch Break
13:30: Competition resumes
15:30: Pack up begins
16:00: Room booking ends

This is the Micromouse Competition! Come along and compete! Your programming is not done yet? That’s fine! There is still time to program at the event!

Competitors will be provided with a basic robot that has a distance sensor, allowing it to solve the maze.

There will be a safety induction at the start. Anyone not inducted will not be allowed to interact with the mice (robots)

Sunday 2024-09-15

Annual General Meeting

16:00-17:00

Online: https://discord.gg/RVpgzAdvgx

The La Trobe Robotics Club is having it’s Annual General Meeting where we vote on the executive and direction of the club for the next year! It is very important we get as many people in as possible, to cater the club to what the students want.

Agenda:

1. Acknowledgement of Country

2. Attendance

3. Observers

4. Apologies for Absence

5. Minutes of A.G.M. held on 2024-04-24

6. President’s Report

7. Secretary’s Report

8. Treasurer’s Report

9. Introduction of Returning Officers

10. Constitution review and changes

11. Election of Office Bearers
    President
    Vice-President
    Secretary
    Treasurer

12. A.O.C.B.
    Any Other Competent Business gives members the chance to raise issues and matters, including those brought to them by the public.

13. Closure

Upcoming events:

Week 7

Monday 2024-04-22

AGM

14:00-16:00

Online

Agenda:

• Advisement of meeting recording
• Acknowledgement of Country
• Confirm minutes of last AGM
• Treasurer’s report
• Any other executive’s reports
• Why constitution isn’t being amended
• Executive Elections

Wednesday 2024-04-24

Ball Balancing Robot Improvement

14:00-18:00

ED2-213

The club will be working on improving the Ball Balancing Robot we use for our stalls.

Thursday 2024-04-25

Market Day Stall

11:30-13:30

Agora (Bundoora Campus)

Stall to advertise club using the Ball Balancing Robot

Cancelled due to public holiday

Week 8

Monday 2024-04-29

Robotics Competition Volunteering (VEX)

09:00-16:00

Camberwell Grammar School

Working With Children Check required: Get one for free here We as a club will be volunteering at a robotics event. We will be helping run the event by:

• Setting up the fields
• Counting scores after matches
• Helping make sure teams are on time for their matches
• And more!

All volunteers get free food (usually pizza) from event organisers (in2robotics)

Wednesday 2024-05-01

CADDing Micromouse Maze

14:00-18:00

HS3-402

Lestie will be CADDing the Micromouse maze, come by and hang out. This is also an opportunity for you to get a personalised intro to CAD workshop.

Thursday 2024-05-02

Market Day Stall

11:30-13:30

Agora (Bundoora Campus)

Stall to advertise club using the Ball Balancing Robot.

Week 9

Monday 2024-05-06

Programming (C/Rust) Workshop with Nick

12:00-18:00

HS3-402

Workshop teaching C, with an option to learn Rust and get help with it.

Thursday 2024-05-09

Market Day Stall

11:30-13:30

Agora (Bundoora Campus)

Stall to advertise club using the Ball Balancing Robot

Week 10

Monday 2024-05-13

Micromouse grant finaliasation (prototype mouse, maze, event money)

14:00-18:00

HS3-402

We will be finalising the expenses list for the Micromouse competition we will be running in semester 2, so we can apply for a grant for them.

Thursday 2024-05-09

Market Day Stall

11:30-13:30

Agora (Bundoora Campus)

Stall to advertise club using the Ball Balancing Robot

Week 11

Wednesday 2024-05-22

Study Session (with free pizza)

14:00-18:00

ED2-212

Free pizza!

Week 12

Monday 2024-05-27

Study Session (with free food)

12:00-18:00

ED2-101

Free food! (Something different to pizza)