Can you build a better buggy? Or, preferably, a better moonbuggy?
NASA is challenging students around the world to enter the 20th annual moonbuggy race. Registration opened today for the April 2013 event that will be held in Huntsville, Alabama to help inspire creative kids and, just maybe, show some old NASA dogs a few new tricks.
Last year, more than 70 teams competed in the three divisions: high school, college, and university. In total, over 5000 students have competed, with winning teams coming from as far as Canada and Germany.
Participating teams must build a human powered buggy that can carry two students — one female and one male — over a “half-mile simulated lunar terrain course including ‘craters,’ rocks, ‘lava ridges,’ inclines and ‘lunar’ soil.”
via Venture Beat
