The document discusses a micro mouse project involving the design and programming of an autonomous robot mouse to navigate a 16x16 maze. The micro mouse competition involves building a low-cost robot mouse that can navigate a standardized maze in 10 minutes or less using onboard sensors and programming. The project team's goal is to build a micro mouse that costs less than $200 and can navigate their custom 16x16 maze by implementing a flooding algorithm strategy which numbers each square to choose the shortest path to the finish line.