Student Robotics Competition - The Next Generation

The Robotics Competition has become a highlight of the Conferences and a major attraction. It's on track again for 2002 and we'll have more teams than ever from all over the United States competing to complete a robotic civil engineering mission.

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Student Papers
Jerry Cross, Richard Griffith and Malva Knoll

As in previous conferences there will be a student paper session at Space 2002. Teachers will be contacted and invited to ask their students to submit technical papers on one or more aspects of the conferences. High school student papers will be presented in a student session, and some representative papers will be chosen to be published in the Conference Proceedings as has been done previously. The organizational responsibilities involve setting out the rules for participation, mentoring, paper review, acceptance, publication, organizing for presentation by students at the Conferences, assisting students with the preparation of their talks, and sending of certificates honoring the participants and their teachers.

Student Artwork

Artwork by grade school students on the theme of living and working in space will be invited for display at the Conferences. Teachers will be contacted.

Space Station Freedom/ Elementary School Live Teleconference

We are attempting to arrange a live question-and-answer session with astronauts aboard Space Station Freedom for Elementary School students through a teleconference feed from Johnson Space Center. We have done one such operation in the past and it was a complete success.