Nationwide Lunar Robotics Competition - Joint Venture of Team Indus and IITM
The Lunar Rover Challenge is a competition conducted by Shaastra, the annual technical festival of IIT Madras in association with Team Indus, the only team representing India for the prestigious Google Lunar XPrize. A total sum of 5 lakh rupees along with internships, development kits and other incentives awaits the top 5 teams and the winning team's rover stands a shot at going to the moon.
- (1888PressRelease) September 12, 2013 - An announcement by Team Indus recently sent waves across the college community. In order to foster creative thinking coupled with direct application of knowledge, Team Indus in association with IIT Madras's acclaimed technical fest - Shaastra 2014, decided to challenge students to a space race - the Lunar Rover Challenge. The winning robot stands a chance of flying to the moon as a part of Team Indus's mission. All that is needed is the spirit of innovation and the will to create. Neither does one have to be a space scientist, nor a first rate researcher - this is a competition by the engineering students, for the engineering students and from India's youngest and most ambitious innovators - Team Indus.
Team Indus is the only team representing India in the Google Lunar X Prize - a global race that has 24 teams from 50 countries competing to land a rover on the moon and to complete a series of tasks before 2015 in order to win $30 million. They have set their aim on this 21st century space race, in a bid to showcase India's enormous strides in developing scientific and engineering talent and to break the final frontier of space. They now aim to bring the youth of the country to assist them in achieving this goal.
Students from across the country shall be racing to develop a working prototype of a Moon Rover Robot, and face a challenge similar to the Google Lunar X Prize. The top five teams would be recognized as the top engineering teams from across the country along with an award of Rs. 1 Lakh each, certificates, prestigious internships and advanced development kits to aid their path-breaking innovations in the future. But a far more special opportunity awaits the winning team. Its rover stands a shot at becoming a part of Team Indus's mission to the moon and exploring the lunar surface, the purpose it was constructed for.
The Lunar Rover Challenge is poised to take robotics competitions in India to a whole new level in terms of the challenge as well as the opportunities available to the finalists. As the student representatives at Shaastra, IIT Madras convey quite clearly, the competition serves the purpose of inspiring innovation and creation amongst all engineering students regardless of year or stream, and what better reward than the chance to reach out to the moon with the best in the business! With the the bragging rights of having their creation up on the moon at stake, the teams across the country are gearing up and working hard as launch-day approaches.
As for the rest of the prospective engineers of India, Team Indus urges them to join in this movement to win India international glory and show their abilities at Shaastra '14! If you dream big, think different and act smart, theres nothing standing between you and the moon with a quick connection through the hallowed halls of Team Indus and Shaastra.
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