The annual regional RoboCup Junior Challenge for school students will be staged at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst on Friday 13 June. As a sign of the growing interest in robotics and enthusiasm for this event, CSU organisers expect double the participants from last year, with approximately 165 students from 10 schools in the central west and Blue Mountains to compete in two team challenge categories - dance, and rescue. Mr Allen Benter, associate lecturer in the CSU School of Computing and Mathematics in Bathurst said, "The RoboCup Junior Challenge aims to develop teamwork and technical skills in an environment of participation, fun and excitement. The competition is the culmination of plenty of hard work by students who have built and programmed their robots following workshops we held for students and their teachers earlier this year, and is an opportunity for students to show their ingenuity and creativity to solve complex problems. Robotics is a developing career area and perhaps some of these students will design and build the domestic, industrial and manufacturing robots of the future."