{"id":11230,"date":"2010-03-08T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/watch-students-compete-using-lego-robotics\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T10:08:00","slug":"watch-students-compete-using-lego-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/watch-students-compete-using-lego-robotics.php","title":{"rendered":"Watch Students Compete Using Lego Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span>Students from San Cayetano Elementary School race their robot.<\/span><\/div>

Watch school teams test their software-enabled Lego robots via a live Internet program during the annual Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>

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Students in grades 4 through 12 will command their robots to complete tasks on a simulated Martian terrain.<\/span><\/p>

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The competition and related activities will be held at JPL <\/span>on Tues., Mar. 9, from 12:15 to 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, with the awards ceremony at 3 p.m. Pacific time. The event can be seen live on this page, or at http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/nasajpl<\/a> .<\/span><\/p>

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All participating teams are part of the NASA Explorer Schools project<\/span>, a partnership between NASA <\/span>and about 200 elementary and middle schools nationwide. The project teaches and encourages students to pursue disciplines critical to NASA<\/span>'s future engineering, science <\/span>and technical missions<\/span>. JPL <\/span>and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center<\/span>, Edwards, Calif., are the local NASA<\/a> <\/span>partners for approximately 25 schools in Southern California.<\/span><\/p>

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More information can be found online at http:\/\/www.usfirst.org\/roboticsprograms\/fll\/default.aspx<\/a> .<\/span><\/p>

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