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MARS has gone bilingual. Check out this MARS story in spanish MARS y FIRST en Espanol

The MARS control board with its "EASY" button and LEDs for driver feedback garnered the Rockwell Automation Innovation in Controls Award at the Pittsburgh and Palmetto Regionals

The MARS Team competed at the Pittsburgh Regional and the Palmetto Regional in 2009. At both events, MARS won the Rockwell Automation Innovation in Controls Award for their awesome control system that included vision and ultrasound range feedback to the drivers, a traction control system, and real-time acceleration limiting. MARS also made it to the semifinal matches at both events, losing in the third semifinal round at Palmetto in a nailbiter series of matches. At Palmetto MARS also won the safety award for the most safety tokens acquired at the regional.

You can see photos and video of the Pittsburgh and Palmetto regionals in our image and video galleries, the Chairman's video submission in the video gallery, and can watch a television interview with the team at http://wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=53899. You can ready a story about the influence of MARS on the Morgantown community at http://olive.dominionpost.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=RFBvc3QvMjAwOS8wNC8x...

MARS is already hard at work on the 2010 pre-season. Look for us at summer camps, parades, local charity events, and everywhere someone needs to play with a robot !

On Friday, January 23rd, Mountaineer Area Robotics students, mentors, and parents had a chance to intoduce the MARS program to the Governor. While attending a function to celebrate the opening of the YORE Academy a resident school for troubled teens in Fairmont, WV. The MARS team was given congratulations by the Governor on our sucesses and had the opportunity to take a photogragh with said Governor. This event was a great chance to celebrate the opening of a great new facility, and bring the MARS program to the attention of the Governor. The Governor wrote a short article about the visit, it can be found at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/090328-manchin-columnsyoungtalent....