UA's Lunabotics Mining Competition team places third out of 36 teams
UA Lunabotics Mining Competition team members, with their robot “Dust Devil,” from left: Tom Vo, Courtney Gras, John Quayle-Zimmer, Anthony Snyder, Richard Johnson, Ben Chaffee and Andrew Balfour.
The University of Akron's Lunabotics Mining Competition team placed third out of 36 teams for the Joe Kosmo Award of Excellence. The award was presented to the team with the most cumulative points in the Lunabotics Mining Competition at Kennedy Space Center in Florida last month. The University of North Dakota received the honor.
"Our students were great ambassadors for the University, competed well against some outstanding universities and I am very proud of them," says Dr. Tom Hartley, electrical and computer engineering robotics adviser and professor.
Held for the second year in a row, the Lunabotics Mining Competition was established to engage students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics in a competitive environment potentially resulting in innovative ideas and solutions applicable to lunar excavation for NASA.
Media contact: Denise Henry, 330-972-6477 or henryd@.uakron.edu.