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Students are required to design a human powered exploration rover to be completely built and driven by two of their team members. The NASA Rover Challenge course winds around rockets and other space vehicles including a Saturn moon rocket, an engineering test unit of the space shuttle with its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters, and a model of the Lunar Excursion Module, or LEM. The total length of the course is about seven-tenths of one mile. It is strewn with miscellaneous extraterrestrial surface like obstacles distributed randomly over the course. One of the interesting terrains on the course is a crater area in which the life-size replica of the LEM is located.
AEDC STEM sponsors several High School teams. http://www.nasa.gov/roverchallenge/registration/index.html#.UozghsTks90index.html#.UozghsTks90
The VEX Robotics Competition a middle and high school robotics program with more than 4,800 teams from 20 countries playing in over 300 tournaments worldwide. Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, aim to build the most innovative robots possible and work together to obtain the most points possible. In addition to just having a great time and building amazing robots, through their participation in the VEX Robotic Competition and their work within their team, students will learn many academic and life skills. http://www.vexrobotics.com/vex/competition/vex-robotics-competition The VEX Robotics Competition a middle and high school robotics program with more than 4,800 teams from 20 countries playing in over 300 tournaments worldwide. Students, with guidance from their teachers and mentors, aim to build the most innovative robots possible and work together to obtain the most points possible. In addition to just having a great time and building amazing robots, through their participation in the VEX Robotic Competition and their work within their team, students will learn many academic and life skills. AEDC STEM helps sponsor several VEX Robotics Competition Team https://www.vexrobotics.com/vexedr/competition
For more information contact the Hands-On-Science-Center. Hands-On-Science-Center 101 Mitchell Blvd Tullahoma, TN, 37388 (931)-454-8387 Email: hosc@lighttube.net http://www.hosc.org/
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AEDC has test facilities ranging from large wind tunnels and altitude jet and rocket test cells to space chambers, ballistic ranges, arc heaters (to simulate the high temperature generated reentering the Earth's atmosphere) to small research test cells. The center's unique test facilities simulate flight from sea level to space and from subsonic to hypersonic speeds approaching Mach 20.