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NASA, Engineering, and Swarming Robots

Leucht, Kurt
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This presentation is an introduction to NASA, to science and engineering, to biologically inspired robotics, and to the Swarmie ant-inspired robot project at KSC. This presentation is geared towards elementary school students, middle school students, and also high school students. This presentation is suitable for use in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) outreach events. The first use of this presentation will be on Oct 28, 2015 at Madison Middle School in Titusville, Florida where the author has been asked by the NASA-KSC Speakers Bureau to speak to the students about the Swarmie robots.

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Leucht, Kurt. 2015-10-28. NASA, Engineering, and Swarming Robots. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20150021902

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