Brancalião, Laiany SuganumaAlvarez, Mariano JoséCoelho, João PauloConde, MiguelCosta, PauloGonçalves, José2026-05-082026-05-082025Brancalião, Laiany; Alvarez, Mariano; Coelho, João Paulo; Conde, Miguel; Costa, Paulo; Gonçalves, José (2025). Learning Mobile Robotics: An Approach Based on a Classroom Competition. In Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Berlin: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. p. 648-658. ISBN 9789819718139978981965657897898196565852196-49632196-4971http://hdl.handle.net/10198/36584Robotic competitions have been popularly applied in the educational context, proving to be an excellent method for fostering student engagement and interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). In this context, this paper presents the application of mobile robots in a classroom competition, in order to encourage students to enhance mobile robotics concepts learning in a dynamic and collaborative environment. The mobile robot prototyping is presented, and the methodology, including the Hardware-in-the-loop approach applied in the classrooms, is also described, together with the competition rules and challenges proposed for the students. The results indicated an improvement in students’ motivation, teamwork, communication, and the development of technical skills, computational thinking, and problem-solvingengEducational robotsMobile robotsRobotic competitionsSTEMbook part10.1007/978-981-96-5658-5_64