“Looking at the designs these students submitted for Lunabotics Junior, it’s impossible not to be excited about the future of the Artemis Generation,” said Mike Kincaid, NASA’s associate administrator for the Office of STEM Engagement. Together with commercial and international partners, NASA will establish a sustainable presence on the Moon to prepare for missions to Mars. Through its Artemis Student Challenges, NASA is welcoming the next generation of explorers - the Artemis Generation - to learn more about the mission that will pave the way to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon. Each robot successfully accomplished the task of collecting and transporting regolith across rugged lunar terrain. Nine-year-old Lucia Grisanti from Toms River, N.J., won for grades K-5 with her design of Olympus. NASA has chosen two students as winners of the Lunabotics Junior Contest, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the agency’s Artemis missions.Ĭontestants were charged with designing a robot that can dig and move lunar soil, or regolith, from one area of the lunar South Pole to a holding container near a future Artemis Moon base.įifteen-year-old Shriya Sawant of Cumming, Ga., was the winner from grades 6-12 with her RAD: Regolith Accretion Device design.

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