Youth Rover Challenge

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The Youth Rover Challenge is a multi-tier robotics education development program that is hosted, sponsored and operated by The Mars Society.

Description

The Youth Rover Challenge is a multi-tier robotics education development program that is hosted, sponsored and operated by The Mars Society. The program commences on August 6th, 2013 to commemorate the one year anniversary of the landing of NASA’s Curiosity Rover. YRC is a STEM related educational effort that is designed for schools and organizations with students or members in grades 5-12 to have the chance to build and compete at a global level with a LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 based robotic rover and competition arena intended to simulate the surface of Mars. The sandbox where the robotic rover operates is intended to be replicated so participants can operate the competition locally at your school, home or club. Winners of the best place times will be invited to one of 4 events held in each region. Details of those regions can be found here. The Rover built for the competition is pre-designed accomplish specific experiments (tasks) similar to what Mars Rovers accomplish today on the surface of Mars and other harsh environments on remote places on Earth. The competition is operated on-site at your self-built sandbox and the final operation of the field tasks are then videotaped and sent to YRC for submission. Teams that have submitted videos that show the final operation of the rover completing the tasks under a time limit are then ranked against other teams. The challenge and its operation is designed to prepare students for the The Mars Society University Rover Challenge that has operated successfully for the last 7 years directed by The Mars Society. The program is lead and operated by its Program Director, Chuck McMurray, who is also the Deputy Director of Education along with Nicole Willett, who is the Director of Education.

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Youth Rover Challenge is Chicago based place and this enity listed in Non-Profit Organization category. Contact phone number of Youth Rover Challenge: (312) 919-8574