[JaneYoung]

Ok, so this is a wire sculpture of a dust devil.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...dustdevils.htm
Our team met with Dr. Mark T. Lemmon at Texas A&M, College Station, to discuss Mars dust and how it affects the Mars rovers. From that lecture/discussion the team came up with how they best wanted to portray their time spent with Dr. Lemmon. It developed into the dust devil - a sculpture shape that will make a nice addition to the American Mural Project, we hope. A small group of LASA Robotics team members and art students who joined the team for this project, traveled to A&M and then made the project decisions together. One of the art students worked closely with our lead teacher, Mr. Bertucci (shown in the photo), along with our art teacher, Mr. Newman. The sculpture was constructed in the shop. The project was introduced to the team last June after I read Jaine's post and it was finished this past week. We met with Dr. Lemmon in late fall after school had started and waited until we were finished with our competition seasons (we also compete during the fall semester in BEST) to complete the sculpture. It is a worthwhile project and I would encourage all of you to read Jaine's original post, discuss it with your teams, and contribute to Ellen Griesedieck's American Mural Project.

Jane