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Montana students re-create Apollo 11 landing and win $18k worth of prizes
July 21, 2019/
The Apollo 50th Next Giant Leap Student Challenge at the Montana Learning Center on Canyon Ferry Reservoir is an aeronautics, engineering and robotics competition that drew middle and high school students from all across the state.
The challenge required students to re-create the Apollo 11 landing by using a drone to fly in a replica lunar lander. They must then program a robot on the fly to traverse a simulated lunar surface course, retrieve rock samples, which get flown out by the drone.
THOM BRIDGE, Independent Record
