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JURBAN Inner Harbor Robot Demo

The city of Baltimore, MD is about to get a little more spacey.
So come to the Baltimore Inner Harbor Sept 25, 2011 from 9 am to 8 pm EDT.

BASIC INFO BELOW: (Pictures coming soon)

Physical Layout:
> Lunar landscape - 4 ft x 4 ft x 6 in gray colored sandpit with large moon rocks.
> Remote control station for pedestrians to navigate our robot in the above lunar landscape.
> Lunar Gravity Simulator - Simpler version of this*. Giving a 1/6 feeling to our robot :)
> Small stage with background for Moon Pie eating contest and promotion of our Golden Ticket PR campaign. Start buying Moon Pies after our event, for a chance to drive our robot on the Moon with your Android phone. More details in an upcoming blog. We might need to buy RC Cola, http://t.co/04WKrMp

* - http://astrobotic.net/2011/04/21/nasa-awards-contract-for-lunar-gravity-...



Other GLXP teams involved:
> The Part-Time-Scientists are bring R0, their rover prototype. If they don't chicken out we are going to have a 50 m race!
> Team Phoenicia is bring rocket engines and cool aluminium lithium alloy.



Media and AV stuff:
> TV & projectors with videos of what the team has done so far.
> Classic space music: Michael Jackson “Earth Song”, Nas - "I can", David Bowie "Space Oddity", Elton John "Rocketman", Jordin Kare "Fire in the Sky", Lupe - "The show goes on"



The Professionals: Michael Doornbos** And Mario Armstrong***:
> Every 30 - 60 minutes they will do what they do best inspire kids, talk about technology, and explain why the GLXP is important.

** - www.evadot.com
*** - www.marioarmstrong.com



Donate please (we are a non-profit, so it's a tax write off) at: http://www.juxtopia.org/jurban/donate/






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