* Astronomy

Community College Scholars Selected to Design Rovers

Community college students will have the chance to design robotic rovers in cooperation with NASA. Ninety-two students from schools in 24 states have been selected to travel to a NASA centre, including NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Ca., to develop rovers through the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program. The initiative provides hands-on opportunities to inspire interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
Students will visit either JPL from May 1 to 3, or NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston from May 9 to 11. The teams will establish fictional companies pursuing Mars exploration. Each team will develop, design and build a prototype rover, then use their prototypes to navigate a course, collect rocks and water and return to a home base.
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