NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge

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HERC is a nine-month long challenge that tasks student teams to design and build human-powered or remote-controlled rovers capable of traversing challenging lunar terrain while completing mission tasks. It is a hands-on, research-based, engineering activity and culminates each year with a final excursion event in Huntsville, Alabama, home of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The activity offers multiple challenges, reaching a broad audience of colleges and universities as well as middle and high school aged students across the world. NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge is a NASA-conducted engineering design challenge providing resources and experiences for students and faculty. The activity is built around NASA’s mission, providing participants with the opportunity to engage with agency subject matter experts and professionals across aerospace industry. After a competitive proposal selection process, teams participate in a series of design reviews with a NASA panel that mirror the agency’s engineering design lifecycle, providing experiences that prepare students for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Teams must complete a Design Review, Operational Readiness Review, Mission Readiness Review, and Excursion Readiness Review before final excursion. Team must pass each milestone to move onto the next. NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge is open for proposals from: Any U.S. college, university, middle school, or high school. Any U.S. informal education institution serving middle school or high school aged students. Any international college, university, middle school, or high school.