Watch Students Compete Using Lego Robotics Watch school teams
test the prowess of their student-built, software-enabled Lego
robots during the annual Southern California NASA Explorer
Schools Robotics Competition. Students in grades 4 through 12
will command their robots to complete tasks on a simulated
Martian terrain. The competition and related activities will be
held at JPL on Tues., Mar. 9 from 12:15 to 3:30 p.m. (Pacific
time) and can be seen live on the Internet at
http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl . The awards ceremony will be
webcast at 3 p.m. (Pacific time). All teams are part of the NASA
Explorer Schools project, a partnership between NASA and about
200 elementary and middle schools nationwide. The project
teaches and encourages students to pursue disciplines critical
to NASA's future engineering, science and technical missions.
JPL and NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif.,
are the local NASA partners for approximately 25 schools in
Southern California. More information can be found on