Mon, Aug 10, 2015
Competition Open To Students Ages Eight To 17
The Google Lunar XPRIZE announced the thirty finalists for MOONBOTS, an annual global educational competition open to students between the ages of eight and 17. In all, two hundred and thirty teams from twenty nine countries registered to compete.
As part of the requirements for phase one, they were tasked to produce a one-of-a-kind moon tale about what inspired them about the Moon.
Thirty finalists were selected to move onto phase two where they will be challenged to build a robot that can successfully explore a hand crafted lunar surface to share and teach with their local communities in their respective countries.
The thirty are: Artemis (US); BetaBots (US); ChanrdBots (US), Comedy on the Moon (US); Droids Robotics (US); GAG EV3 (Estonia); Highlander (Malaysia); LIFE MISSION (Israel); Linked Lunas (US); LIZARDS IN SPACE (US); Lunar Candy (Thailand); Lunar Dragons (US); Mecaliks (Mexico); Moon Colonizers (US); MoonExplorers (Brazil); Moonshot (Italy); Moonsticks (Israel); Phosphene One (US); Project Gibbous (US); Purely Quantum Coders (US); STEAMBots (US); Super Treehouse Bros (US); Team Chandra (India); Team GalacTechs (US); The Dreamers (Israel); To the Moon and Beyond (US); TorchBots (US); Turtle Explorer (Romania); Wolf Corp Robotics (US); and Xbots (Brazil).
These thirty teams will receive a robotics kit of their choice: LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, VEX IQ Superkit or MECCANO Meccanoid G15 KS to create their own robot to rove on a simulated lunar landscape based on the story the team created in Phase One of the competition. Teams will also be asked to create and upload a video showing how they have demonstrated their Moonbots game to children and adults in their community.
Three Grand PRIZE winners will land a once-in-a-life time trip to Japan to meet with teams from all over the world competing in the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The Moonbots teams will learn how these Google Lunar XPRIZE teams are planning to reach the Moon with their innovative robotic technology.
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