So first at all, what is RoboCup Junior?

RoboCup Junior is project-oriented educational robotics competition for students up through age 19, with a focus on providing a hands-on, scaffolded environment where learners can grow by expanding their knowledge of sparking their curiosity about and increasing their comfort with technology. We have three challenges: Soccer, Rescue, OnStage each emphasizing cooperative problem-solving; each designed to reach creative young minds with a range of interests, and skills.

Soccer?

Yes, in RoboCup Junior we have category where where over 1000 teams with more that 4000 students all around world build autonomous robots that play soccer against each other using special ball that emits IR light. Something like this:

With custom build robots that look something like this:

Coll so where can I get this ball to start?

And there is a problem that we are trying to solve with this project. Current manufacturer of IR balls did stopped making them and they are proprietary design with current cost of those ball over 150$ what is for students unacceptable. So we created our own design that is open-sourced with cost of 20$ that can be bought assembled or DIY at home.

How can PCBWAY help?

As RoboCup is organized with unpaid volunteers all cost of developing this ball was paid from our own pockets what we managed to do for testing design but we now need to make 1000 balls to get it out to the teams for as minimal cost of possible. And because we want to make them as cheap as possible we would like to ask PCBWAY to help us with this by sponsoring cost of PCBs and Components. For this help we are able to help propagate PCBWAY in all ways possible and also what is much more important it would help more that 4000 students to achieve there dreams and to learn about electrical engineering and many other stuff.

All other reasons why we are changing balls can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udhcp6jrlTYNrfYHzZVJLbGYkSEPzJfAvasZTW9j--k/edit?usp=sharing