NASA舉辦漫遊者挑戰，激勵新招募的團隊及研討會教育者

04-22

NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is preparing for the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, in which student teams -- as many

as 100 of them from around the world -- will converge on the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville April 13-14 to pit lightweight vehicles of their own design against a series of tasks echoing science and engineering challenges facing future planetary explorers.

NASA坐落在阿拉巴馬州亨茨維爾的馬歇爾太空飛行中心正在為NASA人類探索火星的挑戰做準備，在4月13 到14號來自世界各地的學生團隊們齊聚在亨茨維爾美國太空火箭中心，在未來的行星探索者面前去為他們自己設計的輕型汽車設計完成一些與科學和工程挑戰相關的任務。

On April 13, organizers also will welcome some 30 American educators with no previous "rover naut" experience. Theyre participants in NASAs Rover Challenge Workshop, seeking to excite their pupils back home at minority-serving institutions and other schools about the competition -- and potentially inspiring students to pursue career opportunities in engineering, science and space exploration.

4月13日，組織者將會迎接30位美國的沒有「羅佛諾」經驗的教育家。這些人是NASA漫遊者挑戰研討會的參與者，他們想讓他們的學生在與來自其他學校的競爭者的競爭中提升興趣，像在工程，科學或太空探索領域，並能尋求職業發展的機會。

"Our goal is to show off the competition firsthand to educators whove demonstrated an interest in participating," said Mona Miller, Rover Challenge project manager at Marshall. "Bringing them out to experience all that energy and exhilaration is a great way to show them the payoff for the long hours of development, construction and testing that their students and faculty advisors will undertake."

「我們的目標是向那些有興趣參加的教育者們提供比賽的第一手資料。」在馬歇爾州的漫遊者挑戰項目的經理Mona Miller表示，「帶他們去體驗所有的能量所有的愉悅是向他們展示學生和教師顧問在長時間的發展、建設和測驗中獲得的回報的好方法。」

Its an exhilarating proposition indeed. High schools compete in one division, colleges and universities in another, taking on the 24-year-old competitions carefully designed, grueling half-mile course, which includes new obstacles and challenges for 2018.

這是一個令人振奮的命題。高校在部門、學院和大學中展開競爭，參加一個24年的精心設計的，艱苦的，包括新障礙和2018年挑戰的半英里賽道。

They begin in the fall, designing and building human-powered rovers to be piloted by one male and one female driver, and similar in form and function to machines that could support missions to planets and other destinations across the solar system. Each team will have six minutes to tackle 14 obstacles, such as sand traps and rocky "extraterrestrial" terrain, and five tasks new in 2018 -- from flag-planting and photographic analysis to sample retrieval and deployment of a science instrument. Then drivers have one final minute to reach home base before their simulated on-board oxygen supply runs out. If they exceed the seven-minute time limit, all points are lost.

開始於秋天，他們設計和建造了個由一個男性和一個女性駕駛員的人為動力的漫遊者，並且在外形和功能上與其它能夠穿梭太陽系支持去到其他星球任務的機器類似。每隊會有六分鐘的時間來處理大概14個障礙，像沙坑、岩石這類的地外地形，另外還有2018年的五項新任務——從插國旗、攝像分析到樣品檢索和部署科學儀器。然後，在模擬飛船上的氧氣耗盡之前，司機需要在最後一分鐘到達基地。一旦超過了七分鐘的時間限制，將會失去所有分數。

As teams compete, educators taking part in the Rover Challenge workshop will mingle with veteran competitors and event planners, discussing rover construction techniques, competition rules and other aspects of the challenge.

參賽隊伍中，參與漫遊者挑戰的教育者會與競爭者及項目策劃人就漫遊者建設科技、競爭規則和其他一部分進行交流。

But Miller is most excited for them to witness the event itself. Marshall organized similar introductory workshops in 2016 and 2017, she said, but both were held independently of the actual competition. "Bringing workshop participants here to Rocket City to watch the Rover Challenge firsthand is going to be crucial," she said. "We believe it will inspire them to participate next year, and that it will help ensure that new ranks of dreamers and doers become passionate about aerospace careers."

但是最令Miller最激動的是他們見證了這個事件。Marshall在2016和2017年都組織了類似的介紹性研討會，當然都是獨立於實際競爭的。她表示「把參與者們帶到Rocket

City去親眼觀看漫遊者的挑戰是至關重要的。我們堅信，這會激勵他們在來年參與進來，這有助於確保新的夢想家和實幹家對航天事業永遠充滿熱情。」

The competition, she noted, is designed to do just that -- addressing practical engineering problems much like those faced by NASA workers preparing for space exploration missions.

她指出，競賽是為了解決實際的工程問題而設計的，就像NASA在準備太空探索的時候面對的問題一樣。

"The competition teaches students to troubleshoot and solve problems the way NASA teams do," she said. "Weve changed the whole nature of the event this year. Its no longer just a timed race. Now its a matter of strategy. Students must analyze the course and decide which challenges to tackle to accrue points, leaving enough time to complete their journey, beat the countdown and achieve mission success."

她說「這次競賽的目的是讓學生們學會像NASA那樣解決問題。我們改變了今年活動的整體性質。它不再是一場時間的比賽而是變成了戰略問題。學生必須能夠分析這門課程，並且決定哪些挑戰是有積累點需要解決的。這樣才能保證有足夠的時間去完成他們的旅程去完成任務。」

The one-day Rover Challenge workshop is sponsored by NASA Headquarters in Washington, which will cover expenses for a designated faculty advisor and an administrator from each institution. The competition itself is organized by Marshalls Academic Affairs Office and sponsored by the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Marshalls official visitor center, hosts the competition each year.

為期一天的漫遊者挑戰賽研討會由NASA的華盛頓總部主辦，並為指定的顧問和機構管理員提供經費。競賽由Marshall的學術事物辦公室組織，由NASA總部的人類探索和行動任務理事會主辦。美國Space & Rocket Center和Marshall的官方遊客中心每年都會舉辦比賽。

編輯：Jennifer Harbaugh

2018.03.28

翻譯： @Yshh 小花

微信公眾號：BNN資訊圈（bnn-news）