Saturday, September 27, 2025
9 a.m.  

Great Lakes Science Center will once again host the Curiosity Open: Robotics Challenge! The Curiosity Open is an annual, off-season, robotics tournament that features some of the best high school robotics teams from across the region.

This past season, FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) teams from across the city, and from the Great Lakes region, successfully competed at major events throughout the U.S. and internationally at the FIRST® World Championship! On Saturday, September 27, the Science Center will welcome up to 24 FRC teams and their fans to this exciting, off-season invitational event. The floor of the Science Center's special exhibition hall will be transformed into a robot battleground where teams of students, working in three-team alliances, will go head-to-head, tournament style, to see whose robots are the best designed and constructed!

Special Note: Once 24 robots have been registered for this event, additional teams trying to register robots will be waitlisted.

Registration fee: $250 per team for the first robot. ($150 for each additional robot)

(Competitors needing to provide payment using a purchase order or check must call 216-621-2400 to register.)