2025 Program

THURSDAY

11/27

Thanksgiving

Day Arrival

Conference Registration Opens @ 4:30pm

Meet & Greet, 4:30pm-5:00pm

Opening Session, 5:05pm-6:25pm

  • Opening Remarks, Mr. Robert D. Jones, Founder & Co-Developer, Robotics & turkey

  • Opening Speaker - Dr. Lesley-Gail Atkinson Swaby, Author & Lecturer, Dept. of History & Archaeology, University of the West Indies

  • Pioneer Award Presentation

Thanksgiving Dinner @ Martha’s Market, 6:30pm-7:55pm

Robot Performance Workshop, 8pm-9pm

  • Review and provide feedback on robot performance videos submitted by teams from US, Jamaica, and Nigeria.

  • Open time for robot performance experimentation, 9pm until?

FRIDAY

11/28

Day 2

Breakfast @ Martha’s Market, 7am-8:55am

Early Morning Workshop, 8:05am-8:55am

  • Ideas on presenting Robot Design on Trifold Posterboards

  • Innovation Project Workshop including review and feedback on draft 5-minute presentation videos submitted by teams from US, Jamaica, and Nigeria

Early Morning General Session, 9:05am-9:55am

  • Session Speaker, Ms. Evelyn Thompson, Former Head Conservator at Jamaica National Heritage Trust.

Late Morning Workshop, 10:05am-10:55am

  • “Hands on” Robot Performance Workshop

Late Morning General Session, 11:05am-11:55am

  • Session Speaker, Mr. Alexander Lowe, 11th. Grade Student at Saunders Trades & Technical High School in Yonkers, NY will present “Vision-Guided Autonomous Navigation For Robots Using AprilTags and PhotonVision”.

Lunch @ Martha’s Market, Jamaican Grill, or Ocean Burger, 12 noon-1:10pm

Board Bus for Archeological Field Trip to Seville Heritage Park + Beach 1:15pm

Seville Heritage Park, 2:45pm

  • Tour

  • Dig and/or Beach Time

Board Bus to Return to Ocean Coral Spring Resort, 5:15pm

Dinner, 6:30pm-8:25pm

  • At Martha’s Market or reserved a la carte restaurants (Red Snapper, Sugar Cane, La Locanda, Sakura, or Thali)

Post Field-Trip Discussion & Sharing, 8:35pm-9:25pm

  • Sharing of pictures and videos from field-trip at Seville Heritage Park

SATURDAY

11/29

Wrap Up!

Breakfast @ Martha’s Market, 7am-8:55am

Early Morning Workshop, 8:05am-8:55am

  • Core Values Presentations and/or more “hands on” Robot Performance

Networking, 9:05am-9:55am

Coach & Parent Roundtable, 9:05am-9:35am

Farewell General Session, 10:05am-10:55am

  • Prizes

  • Presentation of Certificates

  • Closing Remarks, Mr. Robert D. Jones, Co-Developer of Robotics & turkey

Departures @ 11am