Projects
Red Rover, Red Rover
The Red Rover, Red Rover project opens the world of space exploration to children. Using LEGO® Red Rover, Red Rover kits, students design and build their own Mars Rovers, guiding them from a computer across a simulated Mars terrain that they research and construct themselves. Then they can connect to a Rover built by students at a different school next door -- or across the world -- and use it to explore a completely new environment, just as scientists explore the strange surface of Mars.
Red Rover, Red Rover was created by The Planetary Society and the LEGO Company in 1996 to inspire future generations of Mars explorers. The success of Red Rover, Red Rover led to the Red Rover Goes to Mars project, in which children from around the world participated in actual Mars exploration with Malin Space Science Systems and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It also generated an exciting online project, called Mars Stations, in which anyone with access to the Internet can connect to and remotely operate a rover online.
For more information, visit the LEGO Education website. LEGO Education distributes the Red Rover Mars Site Package as an add-on to their Robotics kits.
For technical support, contact LEGO Education. For examples of LEGO Robotics and Mars exploration projects in the classroom, visit the website of LEGO educator Linda Hamilton.
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