An Open Innovation Competition Inspired by Star Wars

Posted by on August 09, 2011 @ 1:22 pm

floating SPHERES droidsLast Friday, The Daily Crowdsource ran an article describing NASA’s SPHERES program and the upcoming U.S. High School competition (running on the TopCoder Platform) that will ask teams of students to program these near-zero gravity satellites. (pictured right)  Find out how the creators of the SPHERES initiative got their inspiration from Star Wars and how you can register a team to compete.

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