PASADENA, Calif., March 8 (UPI) -- California students in grades 4-12 will test their software-enabled Lego robots this week during a live Internet television program sponsored by NASA.
The annual Southern California NASA Explorer Schools Robotics Competition will be held Tuesday, 12:15-3:30 p.m. PST at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The event will be televised by NASA TV as the students command their robots to complete tasks on a simulated Martian terrain.
All participating teams are part of the NASA Explorer Schools project, a partnership between NASA and about 200 elementary and middle schools nationwide. The project teaches and encourages students to pursue disciplines critical to NASA's future engineering, science and technical missions.
The California schools participating in the competition are:
-- Charles Kranz Intermediate School, El Monte.
-- Jack Weaver School, Murrieta.
-- Johnson Magnet School for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, San Diego.
-- Lake View Elementary School, Huntington Beach.
-- Mesa Union School, Somis.Nestle Avenue Elementary School, Tarzana.
-- North Ridge Magnet School, Moreno Valley.
-- Roosevelt Middle School, Glendale.
-- San Cayetano Elementary School, Fillmore.
-- Shirley Avenue Elementary School, Reseda.
--.Sycamore Hills Elementary School, Fontana.
-- Village Academy High School, Pomona.
The televised program will be available at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl.
