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Community College Scholars Selected To Design Robotic Rovers

[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA. Ninety-two students from schools in 24 states have been selected to travel to a NASA center to develop rovers through the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program.

Students will visit either NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., from May 1-3, or NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from May 9-11. The teams will establish fictional companies pursuing Mars exploration. Each team will develop, design and build a prototype rover, then use their prototypes to navigate a course, collect rocks and water and return to a home base.

Leland Melvin (Associate administrator, Education, NASA): I am so proud of the Community College Aerospace Scholars program. Community colleges offer NASA a great pool of STEM talent critical to our scientific and exploration initiatives.

Participants were selected based on completion of interactive Web-based assignments throughout the school year. The on-site experience this spring includes a tour of NASA facilities and briefings from agency scientists and engineers.

The program is based on the Texas Aerospace Scholars program, originally created in partnership with NASA and the Texas educational community. Aerospace Scholars programs are designed to encourage students to enter careers in science and engineering and ultimately join the nation’s technical workforce.

You can finf a complete list of the student participants, their states and the community colleges they represent, here

http://go.nasa.gov/nccas

 

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