Moon Mission Wins Google Prize for 3 Young Mexicans Mexico News Daily
go to original November 3, 2015

Members of Team MecaLIKS and their mentor (MoonBots.org)

A lunar rover designed by three Mexican girls has won them an international prize and a trip to Japan, where they met the competitors in the US $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE.

The three members of Team MecaLIKS, Jana Jezabel González Castrejón, 9, Jade Titania Díaz García, 12, and Ámbar Nicole Díaz García, 9, used the astronomical knowledge and the beliefs of the Maya civilization as an inspiration to design a lunar rover and five space missions for it.

As a result of their work at the robotics club Liks, where they were mentored by director Adolfo Ferrer Jaime, the three young girls from Cuautitlán Izcalli in the State of México participated with their project in the 2015 Google Moonbots Challenge along with 235 other teams from 29 countries, winning the grand prize after two selective phases, along with two U.S. teams and one more from Italy.

...The girls’ involvement in the Moonbots challenge meant contributing to science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. They shared what they learned during the development stages of their rover and space missions with children of the Centro de Formación Paris A.C. – an organization in Atizapán de Zaragoza in the State of México created to expose children to different activities and programs with the ultimate goal of keeping them in school and contributing to their personal development.

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