ROCKETS ROBOTICS & ARITHMETIC

Each year, the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge features an engineering design challenge to engage students worldwide in the next phase of human space exploration. The annual event is a more complex follow-up to the successful NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race. The competition challenges high school and college students to create a vehicle designed to traverse the simulated surface of another world. 

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During its 20-year run, NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race engaged more than 10,000 students and demonstrated that these budding scientists and engineers were capable of complex work. The NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge continues that tradition by providing an authentic engineering experience. Student teams design, build and test technologies that enable rovers to perform in a variety of environments. The Rover Challenge inspires participants to become the engineers who design NASA’s next-generation space systems. 

Explorers can learn from the challenges of our predecessors as we pursue future missions. In 1971, Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell launched on Apollo 14, an extraordinary, complex mission to the Moon. Like other missions, their story is one of man’s battle against almost impossible odds, a story of highs and lows. 

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Mr. Daniel Wallace is the primary sponsor for the NASA Rover Challenge. Students in this program are handpicked, and the work is intense because there is only one international competition. 

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If you are a parent, guardian, family or community member and you'd like to lend your expertise, please contact the sponsors listed below and complete the Adult Volunteer form HERE.

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View pictures of what we've been doing on the photo galleries!