Robot Vacuum

It's amazing to think there were times when math knowledge was locked away in secret societies and reading literacy rates were in the single digits. Coding is the same way today! If we can remove the fear of coding we can help create a new generation with the basic educational tools to move humanity's knowledge forward. For example, have you ever watched a Neato or Roomba robot? It's pretty modern technology in action:







Guess what? It's actually not that hard to code a robot to cover some area. In, fact that's what this next challenge is! As context, do you remember the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010? Over 3 million barrels of oil leaked out before the well was capped. Well, one method of cleaning up these spills is to use swimming robots. In this challenge we're going to spread objects all over the world map that you are tasked to "clean up".

Challenge Rules

Here are the rules:

1. The robot can start anywhere in the world that you want.
2. The robot scores points by removing objects from the world's oceans. Green blocks are toxic garbage and worth 5pts while red blocks are normal trash and worth 1pt each.
3. To count for your score, the block must be completely off the world map. The score for each round is the sum objects times their worth. Each round lasts at most 30 seconds or until the bot says "Stop!".
4. Since form factor is important with swarmbots, your score will also be divided by the maximum width of your bot.
5. Each team will get three runs. The team with the highest total score will be declared the winner.
6. You can use any robot design but make sure you include some kind of plow!

You don't know where the objects are at so cover as much ground as possible: