The Academy of Arts Careers and Technology team achived great success in the past two years of the Moonbuggy race. In 2011 we won the Rookie team award placing 11th the competition. In 2012, the team came in 7th overall and won the "Featherweight award".
The annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race is held at the U.S. Space and Rocket center in Hunstville, Ala. More than 90 Student teams -- most of them seasoned "Space Racers" from schools that field competetors year after year-- will demonstrait the same engeneering skills and innovation that made NASA's Apollo-era lunar rover program a sucess four decades ago.
The event challenges high school,college, and university students to design, build and race light weight, human powered rovers-- "Moonbuggies"-- which address challenges much like those faced by NASA's lunar rover developers in the late 1960's. The competition is designed to teach to troubleshoot and solve problems, and demonstrates NASA's continuing commitment to inspire new generations of scientists, engineers and astronauts.
The race honors the legacy of the first NASA Lunar Roving Vehicle, which made its inaugural excursion on the moon's surface July 31, 1971, driven by Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin. Two more rovers follwed in 1972, enabling still greater scifentific exploration during the Apollo 15 and Apollo 16 missions. (From the NASA Great Moonbuggy Race fact sheet.)
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