Math Awareness Month 1999
Marshall University WV & Davis Creek Elementary
Many students visited the Mars Colony.
The Mars Colony was set up in the Student Union
Some visitors were young. Alumni week visitors
People of all ages came to see the Mars Colony.
The 3 RCX were programmed with five programs to provide food, air, water, temp control, and housing.

During Math Awareness Month Marshall University students and professors drove Davis Creek Red Rover remotely over the internet.  All that could be seen on the driver side was the view from the camera on the Rover.
The computer on 5th floor Smith Hall
The camera picture was projected on the hall wall. The Rover was driven by mouse clicks
  From the visual information from the mounted camera the Rover was driven through the valves of the heart maze.
 
View of Davis Creek Elementary
Mars box from below.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Two different Rovers 

 Looking up through clear floor
You have to be on a ladder to be this high
View from the top looking down through the Plexiglas bottom to the computer below that runs the RED ROVER software. 
 
Colony set up on "Mars"

Math Awareness Month 99
Linda Hamilton
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May 24, 1999
update 18 March 02