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From facility compute boot to the evening autonomous drone light show at the African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC).
Engineering setups, local dual-RTX 5090 compute boot, private local network integrity tests, and main stage AV/feed calibration.
Registration desk opens for 500 public attendees and 50 core youth builders; badge credentialing (Participant, VIP, Staff, Mentor) and tool packet distribution.
Builders and spectators transition into auditorium seating; visualizer displays loop event graphics, arena safety guidelines, and partner recognition.
Opening addresses & keynote launch; core organizing team introductions; formal presentation of builder cohorts, track assignments, and mentor pods.
Builder Track: Cohorts transition to breakout labs for Isaac Sim training, spatial mapping, and edge sensor wiring. Showroom Track: Open to attendees and public featuring interactive robotics demos and Media Lab podcast interviews.
Mandatory showroom hard close (12:30 PM sharp chimes; doors locked/stanchioned). 1-hour community food truck service active in the outdoor courtyard with meal voucher loops.
Hardware deployments inside the protective safety cage, physical Unitree humanoid/quadruped testing, and final code compilation. Showroom re-opens to spectators at 02:00 PM. Strict 16:00 (04:00 PM) Technical Code Freeze.
Judges evaluate autonomous obstacle agility runs, ROS 2 architecture, Sim2Real transfer accuracy, and WebXR telemetry streams.
Top cohort project demonstrations, stage outcomes recap, and presentation of the cash prize pool and official Awards.
Complex interior closes to general public; crowd transitions to the exterior courtyard.
Autonomous courtyard drone flight demonstrations, night light show, DJ performance, and ecosystem networking mixer.