LANL News:
The fifth annual RoboRAVE Rally/NNM Science Showdown takes place Saturday in Española.
The event features more than 50 student robotics teams from across the region and a great range of hands-on STEM activities and demonstrations. The event promises to be a great day of seeing science in action, and is free and open to the public.
Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Details
The RoboRAVE Rally is a robotics competition in which 58 registered student robotics teams (from elementary to high school age) from across the region – Los Alamos, Taos, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Springer, Española, Abiquiu and Santa Clara – compete with their autonomous robots in a range of events including line-following, navigating a maze and robot jousting.
The Rally also incorporates the NNM Science Showdown, which provides hands-on STEM demonstrations from education partners including Explora Science Center and Children’s Museum, and the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC), together with volunteers from Los Alamos National Laboratory.