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Allied Electronics & Automation Sponsors Colorado State University's NASA Robotic Mining Competition Team in Annual LUNABOTICS Competition for the Fifth Consecutive Year

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FORT COLLINS, Colo., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Electronics & Automation is sponsoring Colorado State University's (CSU's) NASA Robotic Mining Competition (RMC) Team in the 2022 LUNABOTICS competition, providing the team with a monetary grant and access to critical components as well as expert advice from Allied's highly experienced engineering team. This year marks Allied's fifth consecutive year of support for the team's participation in the annual LUNABOTICS competition, a NASA Artemis Student Challenge designed to educate college students in the NASA Systems Engineering process, cultivate a workforce optimized for high-tech industries including terrestrial and extraterrestrial mining and construction and provide NASA with innovative prototype solutions to the many challenges inherent in future Artemis missions, which are intended to establish the first long-term presence on the moon and leverage the knowledge acquired there to send the first astronauts to Mars.

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  • FORT COLLINS, Colo., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Electronics & Automation is sponsoring Colorado State University's (CSU's) NASA Robotic Mining Competition (RMC) Team in the 2022 LUNABOTICS competition , providing the team with a monetary grant and access to critical components as well as expert advice from Allied's highly experienced engineering team.
  • The annual LUNABOTICS competition requires an immense amount of work in addition to significant expense, so we are incredibly grateful to Allied for its continued support of our team," said Carissa Vos, a senior student and project manager for CSU's NASA Robotic Mining Competition Team.
  • This year's LUNABOTICS Artemis Student Challenge Robotic Mining Competition will take place at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 2227.
  • The competition will culminate in two on-site mining runs and awards will be conferred for excellence demonstrated throughout the competition.