West Virginia U Engineering Students Grab NASA Robotics Challenge Prize

Campus Technology: A team of engineering students from West Virginia University has taken home a $100,000 prize from NASA in a "Sample Return Robot Challenge," part of the space agency's Centennial Challenges prize program. This contest was in its fourth year of operation, and this team was the first to take prize money home for this specific challenge. The event took place in a 20-acre field at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts during a festival of science, technology and robots being hosted there.

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