We are the Mercury Marauders! We are a team composed of Bethany, Alan, Nitzan, and Ryan brought together in our engineering course at Northeastern University. As a team, we value growth, experiential learning, and respect for each other. Throughout this project we have made all decisions through consensus, taught each other skills we feel confident in, and completed each milestone together.

The criteria for this project is very specific because the intended clients are children. Throughout our design process we had to consider space constraints, cost, material safety, user age/ability, and transportability before committing to a design. The project also required use of Arduino in some form, so we decided that we would create a remote controlled 'rover' that would travel around a terrain that resembles Mercury's surface.  Alan had previous experience creating a manually controlled Arduino robot, so we landed on an initial design that played to our experience and strengths, while also encompassing what we had learned about Mercury in our research. A key aspect of this project was to focus on it being a value-sensitive design. This means that the design of the project is user-friendly and user first. This design principle ensures that the game is accessible, inclusive and inviting to play to all children that come to the museum.