Embark on a NASA Technology Scavenger Hunt and More with the OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge 2019
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Through the NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC), OPTIMUS PRIME and the AUTOBOTS encourage students to embark on three missions, starting with a scavenger hunt for NASA "spinoffs," or technologies created for NASA missions now being used for other purposes.
Key Points:
- Through the NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (OPSPARC), OPTIMUS PRIME and the AUTOBOTS encourage students to embark on three missions, starting with a scavenger hunt for NASA "spinoffs," or technologies created for NASA missions now being used for other purposes.
- OPSPARC challenges young innovators to find creative uses for NASA technologies and to invent their own spinoff.
- Just like OPTIMUS PRIME, the leader of the AUTOBOTS who is "More than Meets the Eye," NASA spinoffs start out as one thing and can convert into something else.
- Mission 2 "Create Your Own Spinoff" asks students in grades 3-12 to solve a societal problem using redesigned NASA technology.