Challenge 2008

“Climate Connections gives kids a hands-on, real-world experience allowing them to use their imaginations and creativity in combination with science and technology. It provides a process whereby they work together to experience first-hand the challenges that even the top scientists face surrounding this broad and important topic.”

– Dean Kamen, FIRST Founder

Climate Connections challenges teams of children, ages 9 to 14, to use robotics to unite communities in the research and study of a global atmospheric phenomenon: the climate. The Challenge goal is for teams to program their robots to learn about past climates, delve into questions about our current climate and explore conditions for the future through missions including: connecting research resources, minimizing climatic influences, polar experiments, sequestering greenhouse gases, studying wildlife, preparing for climatic conditions and gathering communities of people.

Challenge 2011