The 2013 Central West RoboCup Junior Challenge for schools in the central west returns to Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Tuesday 11 June. The coordinator of the competition, Mr Allen Benter, who is also a PhD student and researcher at the Mining Research Laboratory in the School of Computing and Mathematics in Bathurst, said, “We expect about 76 enthusiastic students from seven central west schools to build and operate mini robots at this annual robotics competition. As with previous events, University staff have provided technical advice to students and their teachers, and will be the judges at the RoboCup Challenge. It’s great to see that students and schools in the region have embraced the concept and the opportunity that the RoboCup offers, as robotics is an important and rapidly developing field.”