Mission Mars
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| Mission Mars | |
|---|---|
| Challenge Number: | 5 |
| Year of Challenge Release: | 2003 |
| Number of Missions: | |
| Challenge Designers: | |
| Number of Teams: | 5,000 |
| Number of Children: | 42,000 |
| Number of Events: | 200 |
| Number of US Championship Events: | {{{number of US events}}} |
| Number of World Championship Events: | {{{number of world events}}} |
| Official Site: | 2003 Mission Mars |
The FLL Challenge theme for 2003 was Mission Mars. FLL teams were tasked to compete in the Robot Game, as well complete a Project to design a robotic expedition to answer a key question about Mars exploration.
The challenge was released in September, 2003 with the bulk of Official State tournaments occuring in December. The season was concluded by the FLL Invitational (now known as the FLL World Festival) which was held in conjunction with the FIRST Championship event in April 2004.
Robot Game
The robot game is played on 8 foot x 4 foot board. It had models made out of Lego on it related to that year's theme. Examples included: MAV Launcher Launch; Habitation Modules Construction; Tetrahedron Base Deployment; etc. These were all missions that might need to be done on Mars as part of research about Mars or human habitation/settlement on Mars. In the robot game, a robot designed by the team and built entirely from Lego Mindstorms kits and Lego pieces had to autonomously complete the missions on the board. Each mission had a specific point value.
The Project
The Research Project for Mission Mars asked teams to...
- Choose one of the missions from the Mission Mars challenge
- Select an important question related to this mission
- Design a robotic expedition to answer this question
