Montana State University invites high school teams to compete in NASA robotics competition

Montana State University’s Academic Technology and Outreach will partner with the Montana Learning Center and the Montana Office of Public Instruction to host a NASA robotics competition that is open to teams of Montana high school students.

The competition is in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings. Each team will build a replica of the Apollo lunar module and use a remote-controlled drone to land it on a map of the moon’s surface. Students will then modify and program a Lego Mindstorms robot to explore the surface and gather a rock sample. High school students will also use the drone to retrieve their lunar module.

The competition will take place on July 19 at the Montana Learning Center at Canyon Ferry Lake. The winning team will receive a trip to the Johnson Space Center in Houston.