Mexico's Youths Win First and Second Place in NASA Robotics Competition Notimex
go to original November 12, 2014

Mexican Team of 17 Students at NASA, Houston, TX (Notimex)

The Mexican delegation to the Second Annual International Aeronautics and Space Tournament sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA), won first and second place with their entries RobotiX Marsabots and RobotiX Jetmars.

After four days of competition at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center of NASA in Houston, Texas, students from the Mexican School of Robotics for Children, RobotiX, worked and presented their projects. With this, they made clear that they are on a par with research projects at NASA.

According to the judges' ruling, the projects created by the students of RobotiX met all the requirements of the Tournament, which brings together future science and technology specialists.

First place went to the youths [who designed and built] RobotiX Marsabots. They were awarded a certificate for a zero gravity flight on the G-Force One Zero Gravity Corporation and $5,000 (67,630 pesos) in cash.

Second place went [to the team that designed and built] RobotiX Jetmars, which earned them a Sponsorship at the Houston Space Center.

The Mexican delegation will return to Mexico to provide the details of their experience at NASA.

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