Can you imagine 7 straight hours of LEGO
building and programming?
Virtual Space Camp Mars Yard
Students at
Virtual Space Camp 2
Mars Millennium and Red Rover Goes to Mars
worked an entire day
imagining what it would be like for a community to work and live together on Mars in 2030.
Rovers were made to do remote work on the areas not under climate control.
The earth day the virtual camp missions specialists were on "ISS"
(Marshall University Continuing Ed)
was broken down in to 7 "Mars Days"
At the end of each "day" we wrote in our logs about the days results and ideas for the future.
Morning
9:00 Day 1
Meet each other
Build with instructions
What 5 things would you take to Mars?
Log names
10:00 Day 2
Needs for Mars
Rich culture
Marscape         outline
Mars Colony bases   outline
11:00  Day3
Outside of base mission
Build parts of base.
 
12:00 Day 4
lunch and videos
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<---		 Afternoon
1:00  Day 5
Davis Creek Red Rover link
Read Red Rover Goes to Mars journal form
2:00  Day 6
DC link
Mission patches
Build
Teleoperate
3:00 Day 7
Organize Mars Colony base        complex
Log and photograph entire project.
Plan for the future.
 
The main ideas for the virtual camp were to give students the teleoperating experience to be able to write about for the Red Rover Goes to Mars Journal contest.  Students have a first time opportunity to work on a mission along side of NASA specialists on an actual Mars mission.
This was also an opportunity to work together as a community.  The important ideas about working in a Mars Community are the same as here on earth.
The Mars Millennium Project has been a wonderful way of exploring our communities here on earth.
Materials for the day included 4 computers for Red Rover for internet connection to teleoperate the Red Rover at Davis Creek Elementary, RoboLab for programming RCX, Control Lab for programming the Intelligent House and its extension to the Mars Colony Complex, and Red Rover and Exploration Mars for local teleoperating of rovers.  LEGO materials included  Robotics starter set, solar panel and capacitor, Intelligent House, Control Lab greenhouse, white bricks, red bricks, pneumatics for press, house pieces, base plates, remote controlled car, and Rover RCX.
Every one worked so well together that problems spoken by one would be picked up and solved by others.
More will be added about this full and productive day.
Pictures
April 29, 2000
Virtual Space Camp 2
Marshall University Continuing Education
Linda Hamilton
LEGO Links of Linda Hamilton
updated 10 May, MM