Robotics Competiton in Space!

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MIT is running their High School Zero Robotics program again this fall.

Very cool opportunity for high school robotics team. Our team has been participating in this competition for the last few years as a warm up for our programmers. Here is a description from the MIT website:

"Zero Robotics" is a robotics programming competition where the robots are SPHERES satellites inside the International Space Station. The competition starts online, on this website, where teams compete to solve an annual challenge guided by mentors. Participants can create, edit, share, save, simulate and submit code, all from a web browser. After several phases of virtual competition, finalists are selected to compete in a live championship aboard the ISS. An astronaut will conduct the championship competition in microgravity with a live broadcast!

Last year we were on a top ten alliance and received an invitation to go to MIT and participate. Five astronauts were there at MIT and we had a live hook up with the International Space Station. We got to see our code fly on the miniature satellites live! MIT took us for a private tour of their aerospace research labs. It was thrill of a lifetime for all that participated.


Here is a link:

http://www.zerorobotics.org/web/zero...cs/home-public

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