From our experience there are a lot of people who, firstly, would like an opportunity to learn how to program and it is a lot of fun to do so by building hobby automated projects. See below for some examples. Secondly, it is motivational and fun to be able to focus your efforts on a final goal, and this why we are hosting a competition in December, so that people can get motivated and come out and play. We at the O’Town are very much focused on diversity and to give everyone the chance to be part of this competition we will be hosting some full day workshops in November. These workshops will be free, but you will be required to buy your own hardware. We will provide links on where you can buy the hardware and we are also willing to buy it for you, but we will require cost to be paid up front before a certain date. Again see below for information. Prizes will be give out for the competition and these will represent diversity. What these will be is not set in stone yet, but some examples could be: prize for the youngest person; prize for the fastest female team; funniest looking robot and of course the fastest of the overall competition.