{"id":10416,"date":"2015-04-19T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10416"},"modified":"2015-04-19T16:13:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T20:13:12","slug":"high-school-teams-compete-in-nasas-rover-challenge-in-huntsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10416","title":{"rendered":"High school teams compete in NASA&#8217;s Rover Challenge in Huntsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA held its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/roverchallenge\/home\/\" target=\"_d\">Rover Challenge<\/a>\u00a0event in Huntsville, Alabama this weekend:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/marshall\/news\/news\/releases\/2015\/15-051.html\" target=\"_d\">The 2015 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Rolls to a Start &#8211;\u00a0NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"2014 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Race (NASA, 04\/11-12, 2014) by NASA Marshall Photo Archive, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasamarshallphotos\/13812927453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7112\/13812927453_a34cc7521b_n.jpg\" alt=\"2014 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Race (NASA, 04\/11-12, 2014)\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This competitive international design challenge boasts 95 registered university\/college and high school teams, hailing from 18 states, Puerto Rico and from as far away as Mexico, Germany, India and Russia. Each team has spent months designing, building and testing their rovers, all for this moment\u2026to roll into the U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to defend their crowns or usurp the hierarchy of previous winners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Rover Challenge requires student teams to design, construct, test and race human-powered rovers through an obstacle course simulating terrain potentially found on distant planets, asteroids or moons. Teams race against the clock to finish the course with the fastest times, vying for prizes in competitive divisions. The event concludes with an awards ceremony where corporate sponsors will present awards for best design, rookie team and other awards and accomplishments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The nearly three-quarter-mile-long obstacle course will have teams racing and maneuvering in, through and around full-size exhibits of rockets, space vehicles and extra-terrestrial terrain on display at the U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center\u2013 the official visitor center of NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a report on the event:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/huntsville\/index.ssf\/2015\/04\/racing_rovers_under_the_space.html\" target=\"_d\">Racing rovers under the space shuttle, climbing Martian hills, and navigating moon rocks. It&#8217;s racing in the Rocket City. &#8211;\u00a0AL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a video from Reuters:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTaRkiE0LzU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA held its\u00a0Rover Challenge\u00a0event in Huntsville, Alabama this weekend:\u00a0The 2015 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Rolls to a Start &#8211;\u00a0NASA This competitive international design challenge boasts 95 registered university\/college and high school teams, hailing from 18 states, Puerto Rico and from as far away as Mexico, Germany, India and Russia. Each team has spent months &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High school teams compete in NASA&#8217;s Rover Challenge in Huntsville<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2I0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7325,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7325","url_meta":{"origin":10416,"position":0},"title":"NASA declares winners in annual Moonbuggy races held in Huntsville","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA held its latest\u00a0NASA Rover Challenge\u00a0in Huntsville, Alabama on Friday and Saturday: Academy of Arts, Careers and Technology in Reno, Nev., and University of Puerto Rico at Humacao Win Top Honors at First NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge NASA today declared the winners of the first NASA Human Exploration Rover\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Contests and Games&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Contests and Games","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"team4_0fd0612","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/team4_0fd0612.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1941,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1941","url_meta":{"origin":10416,"position":1},"title":"Puerto Rico teams win college &#038; high school NASA moonbuggy races","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA's 20th Great Moonbuggy Race took place the past few days at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. 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