The BoRG Volunteers at the Idaho Space Grant’s Mars Rover Challenge

On Saturday, April 20th, Barry and Paul along with their wives traveled to The College of Southern Idaho campus in Twin Falls to help wit the judging at the Mars Rover Challenge. The event was an engineering design challenge where students across Idaho pitted their Legos-based rovers in four competitions. The challenged required students to design rovers that could climb high inclines, maneuver simulated Martian terrain, collect rocks, and be as light weight as possible. In addition, student teams were required to keep and engineering notebook and give a presentation about their rover design. Fourteen student teams from southern Idaho attended.

Here’s what the competition looked like from the bleachers

Students driving their rover around the simulated Mars terrain in search of rocks to collect

The rover display by the Mars Marauders