Explore and create: Exploratory Creation lab 
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Participants will learn about real-life scenarios, such as Mars Rover, Ocean Exploration, or Village Engineering. VEX GO kits will be utilized to show participants how to build, iterate, and re-design the robot builds to complete the tasks assigned in each STEM competition. Participants will be able to build, test run, re-design, and re-test their robot builds to complete various tasks that simulate real-life problems.
Participants will be presented with real-life problems as presented by the VEX GO competition fields, such as Mars Rover, Ocean Exploration, Village Engineering, and City construction. They will be shown how those problems a solved with various iterations of robot designs. Participants will build the robots, attempt to complete the tasks, and if necessary, redesign the robot build to accomplish the tasks. Participants will engage in the same problem-solving engineering challenges which with the students will be presented. Participants will have an opportunity to build, drive, and program robots to accomplish tasks. Participants will then have the opportunity to re-design and re-try the tasks with the improved robot. This will allow participants a real-life experience of ISTE 1.4 Innovative Designer: "Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions."
https://www.mbari.org/
https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/
https://education.vex.com/stemlabs/go/ocean-science-exploration
https://education.vex.com/stemlabs/go/mars-rover-surface-operations
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