We are excited to announce the launch of the 2015 MOONBOTS Challenge, an international competition sponsored by XPRIZE and Google that invites kids to design, create and program their own lunar rover.
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The winners of the 2014 MoonBots Challenge were just announced, and the all of the finalists exhibited outstanding STEM knowledge and skills. Read on to find out who won the competition and where the grand prize winners will be going very soon…
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The MoonBots competition enters its second phase, as kids build robots to replicate lunar exploration.
Continue ReadingWhat a cool way to spend the summer! Google has partnered with First Robotics and Wired Magazine to create an X Prize challenge just for kids. In this competition, kids build and program Lego Mindstorms robots while learning what it takes to win the Google Lunar X Prize. Although there’s bound to be some incredibly […]
Continue ReadingBringing the whole wonderful experience that has been our involvement in the MoonBots Challenge to a close, we’re happy to deliver this video of the winning team visiting Lego Headquarters in Billund, Denmark (hence the Danish voiceover) and showing off …
Continue ReadingThe following is a guest post from Will Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X Prize Foundation. This post is a continuation of my series of profiles for teams competing in the MoonBots educational competition. In brief, MoonBots …
Continue ReadingThis post is a continuation of my series of profiles for teams competing in the MoonBots educational competition. In brief, MoonBots challenges teams of students (aged 9-18, with adult ‘team captains’) to essentially mimic the requirements of the $30,000,000 Google …
Continue ReadingThis is a guest post by Will Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X Prize Foundation. Over the weekend, I provided a quick introduction for myself, the X Prize Foundation, and the MoonBots educational competition as part of …
Continue ReadingThis is a guest post by Will Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X Prize Foundation. By way of quick introduction, I am not yet a dad, but I am most certainly a geek — earning a degree …
Continue ReadingRecently, the MoonBots Challenge announced its final field of 20 teams, down from more than 200 who initially entered the competition. The teams entering the second phase of the challenge hail from 13 different states, South Africa and Belgium. All …
Continue ReadingWe are very happy to finally announce the start of the MoonBots Challenge, which is being formally kicked off at the First World Championships today. More from the official press release: ATLANTA, GA – FIRST WORLD Championships (April 15, 2010) …
Continue ReadingLadies and gentlegeeks, gather around, because today is a special day. Down Texas way — specifically at the NI Week conference in Austin — a number of very cool companies, and one geeky blog, are pleased to announce an exciting …
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