Future Flight 2012

Saturday (June 9, 2012):

Creating a moon base has many challenges. One of these challenges is gathering enough resources to build your moon base and to repair your equipment. One way to get resources is to ship it there. Not only is this expensive, it is also risky because accidents do happen. Another way is to find raw resources on the moon itself, to then build the items you need.

Mining the moon for Helium 3 is a current area of research:

In today's activity, you will create a "Metal Detector Robot" designed to seek out the raw materials (aluminum foil) and spare parts (screws and nuts) that are on the lunar surface.

Click on the picture for step-by-step instructions.

Click here to get the slideshow presentation.

Sunday (June 10, 2012)

Now that your moon base has been created, people can start living on the moon. A whole new set of problems arise though now that the base has to provide for living creatures. Food, oxygen, and water are going to be important resources you will have to gather or create.

Luckily, NASA has discovered that there are deposits of water on the moon:

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/21oct_lcross2/

Your task today is to create a "Tin Can Robot" that will gather water from these distant sources and bring them back for the moon colonists. Speed is important though, as other colonies are racing for the same water sources.

Click on the picture for step-by-step instructions.

Click here to get the slideshow presentation.

Instructors:

Henry Kitagawa (Wahiawa Middle School) and Thomas Lee (Wahiawa Middle School)

Glenn Kaizuka and Sylvia Kaizuka