The Los Alamos Space Science Outreach (LASSO) Committee and the Laboratory's Center for Space Science and Exploration are sponsoring the outreach effort. Paul Argo, of the Los Alamos High Performance Computing Environments group, Kurt Moore and Laboratory Fellow William Feldman of Space and Atmospheric Sciences, plus Jan Frigo and James Michel of Space Instrumentation and Systems Engineering, will head into third-grade classrooms after addressing a group of math and science teachers.
The researchers will explain to the students some of the basic science principles, show how robotics and related sciences are important to the nation's space exploration effort, and then get to the good stuff: They'll unbox a set of robot kits and stand back as population of little mechanical creatures takes shape. The students will be able to take their robotic creations home with them when they're done.
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