Podcaster: Host: Dr. Pamela Gay Guest: Steven Canvin

Title: GLXP Team Hangouts 014: MOONBOTS is “Go!”

Organization: Cosmoquest ; Google Lunar XPrize

Link : http://cosmoguest.org ; http://lunar.xprize.org/ ;  http://moonbots.org
This episode has been streamed live on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwlNH_Qa4ME

Description: Kids around the world are learning robotics with MOONBOTS: A Google Lunar XPRIZE Challenge! Watch this space hangout with Dr. Pamela L. Gay and our own MOONBOTS guru, Steven Canvin, to learn how students are becoming involved with STEM, and the Moon, by entering this free worldwide contest (with LEGO, VEX IQ, or Meccano building kits!).

Overview: A global team of scientists and engineers are all working toward constructing missions to land on, travel across, and send video back from the Moon. With this new Google Hangout on Air series, we will introduce you to the men and women behind each of these planned missions and bring you all the latest developments from the +Google Lunar XPRIZE.

Bio:  Dr. Pamela Gay is a professor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and Project Director of Cosmoquest
Takeshi Hakamada, the Hakuto team leader
John Walker, rover engineer

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