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What is Remote3?
Remote3 is an ambitious schools outreach programme that aims to inspire the next generation of STEM scientists - and have a lot of fun doing so!
Schools are being challenged to design, build and program a Martian rover using a LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime Set. Supported by early career scientists, schools develop and test their rovers over several months.
Once assembled, the robots become Martian rovers, navigating across a simulated Martian terrain, while working their way through a series of challenges in the NASA Mars Yard at Boulby Underground Laboratory - over a kilometre underground!
Who runs Remote3?
Remote3 is run by a team of LEGO® loving researchers, scientists, engineers, technicians and public engagement staff across three different organisations...
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory explores the universe from the infinitesimally small to the awe-inspiringly big. Using high power lasers, particle accelerators, supercomputers and much more, we investigate our world and the wonders within it. We use this expertise to help run the Remote3 project.
Remote3 was conceived by two Edinburgh physicists, Alex Murphy and XinRan Liu, while underground at Boulby for a dark matter experiment. They noticed a group of Indian students operating a model rover, exploring how it might be optimised for the cruel terrain of Mars. The rest, as they say, is history…
Boulby Underground Laboratory is the UK’s deep underground science facility, 1.1km beneath North Yorkshire. Deep beneath the surface of the Earth, the Remote3 robots face a series of challenges in the lab’s Outside Experimentation Area.
What our students say...
Hear the students who have participated in Remote3 describe the impact the project has had on them...
To help support this amazing project you can donate to Remote3 via the University of Edinburgh's fundraising site.
Your contribution helps us to inspire the next generation of STEM scientists - no matter how remote!
Remote3 is free for schools thanks to funding from a Public Engagement Award from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Contact us: visitral@stfc.ac.uk
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