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In the future, to enable astronauts to stay on the Moon for long periods of time, new infrastructures must be developed to overcome important challenges. Such challenges include protection from radiation and meteorites, energy production, the extraction and recycling of water, food production and much more. The Moon Camp Challenge invites students to explore the Moon and decode some of the complexities future astronauts may face.

In Moon Camp Discovery each team’s mission is to 3D design only one component of a Moon Camp using Tinkercad. Teams can choose to design a:

– Lunar lander

– Moon Base

– Lunar rover

– Rocket

– Lunar Orbital Space Station

 

The design should be adapted to the Moon environment and if possible consider the use of local resources, provide protection and/or living and working facilities for the astronauts.

Moon Camp Discovery is a non-competitive mission for beginners. All teams that submit an entry that complies with the guidelines will receive a participation certificate and their project will be shared on the Moon Camp online platform.

 

Who can participate?

Participation is open worldwide to students aged up to 19 years old. Moon Camp Discovery is recommended for students aged 6 to 14 years old. Participating students must be supported by a teacher, educator or parent.

Discovery Projects Gallery 2020-2021

Below you can find some of the Moon Camp Discovery projects. For more projects visit the Moon Camp Discovery project gallery.

 

Team: AMY 5BB

Bruxelles    Belgium Category: Moon base
External link for Tinkercad 3D design

Project description


As part of our option, we took part in the “Moon camp challenge” competition organized by Esa. Our teacher Ms. Hardas accompanied us all throughout the project.

we all first watched a video regarding the moon and mars explained by researchers and scientists.

We continued with the assembly of parts to form a robot and then program it.

Subsequently, we thought about creating a lunar base as a group. finally we were divided into 2 groups A and B.

We made a sketch of our future moon base, looking for the appropriate place to establish it. Once the pooling has been done, we split into 2 groups of 2 students each to divide the work to be done, that is to say, model the pieces divided between us.

We have chosen a location for our moon base. We imagined parts and their precise locations. we established a scale and start forming parts with the 3D modeling program: Tinkercad.

We changed our 3D designs as our teacher communicated our mistakes to us.

then, after having finished all the modeling, we tackled the electronics by discovering all the parts we will need. We made a list of sensors / actuators that we had available and we started to challenge personal in order to get used to using electronic tools.


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