BUIES CREEK — A team from Campbell University has won multiple awards in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge that tasked teams of college students and high school students with designing, engineering, and testing a human-powered rover on a course that simulates the terrain found on surfaces of objects in our solar system.
After the eight-month process, the team from Campbell University were asked to perform mission-related tasks while navigating the course, such as retrieving rock and surface samples and conducting a spectrographic analysis.
This is the 27th global challenge from the agency, and the Campbell University team won the project review award and the ingenuity award for their efforts, which NASA described in a tweet as the award that “recognizes the teams with the boldest idea that addressed a problem with audacity and creativity.”
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Vision Builder Adventures, a high school team of students based in Charlotte, won the STEM engagement award in the high school division.
The awards were announced virtually on Friday, April 16.
“The students really had to think outside the box to figure out how to develop these robust vehicles during a global pandemic,” said Miranda Fike, NASA’s activity lead for the challenge that is traditionally held at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “These members of the Artemis Generation rose to the occasion and delivered their reviews, presentations, designs, and videos without fail.”
