During the next few decades NASA will be launching a fleet of automated robots to explore the Solar System. NASA engineers will evaluate the applications, and the winners will be notified by e-mail no later than Dec. 3, according to organizers. It will provide a basic robot parts kit, a remote control and other necessary items to each grantee. In all, more than 300 schools will participate in the games. Following the ceremony, students and their advisors will design and construct remote-control robots in six weeks using identical kits of material.
Advisors are often professional engineers from private industry, government and universities.
This region includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The national games require an additional registration fee. The annual robotics competition is patterned after Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Woodie Flowers' engineering design course.