Silicon Valley is the perfect environment for students to explore engineering. Saturday April 28, they will gather at The Tech Museum’s 20th Annual Tech Challenge to show off their skills. Many of the enthusiastic students show up wearing colorful team costumes making The Tech Challenge a fun family outing, and this year it is all about Mars.

From the Tech Museum’s website: The Challenge 2007
Design, build, and operate an unmanned device that can survive a 12-
foot drop into a Martian crater, and then successfully exit the crater by
ascending a 6-foot crater wall. The Tech will provide a simulated crater,
with a padded drop zone and a textured crater wall and crater rim.

Spectators are welcome: Saturday April 28
Parkside Hall
180 Park Avenue
San Jose, CA 95113
(Between Market Street and Almaden Boulevard)
(408) 294-TECH
Admission is FREE for anyone to the Mars Crater Mission Event.
There will be a concession stand open during competition in Parkside Hall.

The Mars Crater Mission Event Schedule
Event times:
9-12 Grade Division - 9:30am - 12:00pm
6-8 Grade Division - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Presentation from Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA Ames - 5:00pm - 6:00pm

Awards Ceremony:
9-12 Grade Division - 1:00pm - 1:45pm
6-8 Grade Division - 6:00pm - 6:45pm

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