WANTED: GRADE SCHOOLERS TO TACKLE MARS’
HOSTILE ENVIRONS
Deadline Extended to Nov. 30 for UH Mars Rover Contest Application
HOUSTON, Nov. 19, 2004 – Grade schoolers with aspirations
to build their own vehicles to explore the surface of the Red Planet
have been given till Tuesday, Nov. 30, to sign up for the 2004-2005
University of Houston Mars Rover Competition.
Blanketed in toxic soils, seething with powerful radiation and
theorized to host no intelligent civilization, this hostile planet
provides many challenges, giving Houston-area students in grades
three through eight a chance to create their own homemade solutions.
The results will be revealed during a parade of Mars Rover models
designed and constructed to carry out a specific science mission
on the surface of Mars.
The annual competition takes place Saturday, Jan. 22, where the
top three teams of students from 30 schools citywide will be given
the opportunity to show off their models made out of found objects
and simple art supplies, costing a maximum of $25.
Students were supplied with design criteria and had to complete
basic research on Mars to accurately determine feasible operational
and structural features for their rovers. In a previous three-hour
workshop held at UH, teachers were trained to guide their students
in building the models during six-week classroom-learning and homework
projects about Mars.
Visit http://marsrover.phys.uh.edu/MarsRover
for an entry form or contact Edgar Bering, UH professor of physics
and electrical and computer engineering, at eabering@uh.edu
or 713-743-3543.
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