These bicycle-repairing brothers were the first to fly an airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
100
Programming is a process starts with a Problem and ends with this.
What is an Automated Solution or Algorithm?
100
This is another term for 3-D Printing.
What is Additive Manufacturing?
100
This set of instructions tells a robot what to do.
What is Program or Algorithm?
100
Solar energy comes from this bright source of energy.
What is the Sun?
200
When the air pressure underneath the wing of an airplane is greater than the air pressure above the wing, this force pushes up.
What is lift?
200
This programming command could tell a robot to *repeat* as many times as needed.
What is a Loop?
200
Cables, Chains, Ropes, and Beams that are being *stretched* are under this type of stress.
What is Tension?
200
Curiosity, Opportunity, Spirit, and Sojourner - NASA has used these robots to explore the surface of Mars.
What are the Rovers?
200
Electrical generators are turned by giant rotating blades that collect this type of energy.
What is Wind Power?
300
This noise happens when an object is going so fast that it breaks the sound barrier ~750mph!
What is a Sonic Boom?
300
This type of control allows a robot to operate *alone* using only its programming and no operator.
What is Autonomous control?
300
This company wants to hire engineers who know how to make things lightweight and strong - for sending them to space!
What is NASA, Space-X, Virgin Galactic, Rocket Lab, Orbital, etc...?
300
This type of flying robot sometimes has an on-board camera and is often used to televise sporting events.
What is a Drone?
300
The heat energy from inside the earth is used to drive steam generators with this type of renewable energy resource.
What is Geothermal Energy?
400
This celestial body is 238,900 miles away. We visited for the first time in 1969.
What is the Moon?
400
These are the two main program systems for cell phones.
What are Apple and Android?
400
A 3-D Printer will create many thin layers of material to create an object with these three dimensions.
What are Length, Height, and Width?
400
This Challenge offers a $1 Million prize to anyone who can produce a robot that can complete a series of tasks under Autonomous control.
What is the DARPA Grand Challenge?
400
Coal, Gasoline, Natural Gas and other Petroleum products are burned to produce energy. They are known as this type of resource.
What are Non-Renewable or Fossil Fuels.
500
This, our closest neighboring planet, is as close as 33,900,000 miles away. We plan on going for a visit in a few years.
What is Mars?
500
These rules for androids were created by Isaac Asimov and are depicted in his 1950 novel "I, Robot".
What are the Laws of Robotics?
500
This shape is the strongest for supporting loads, as can be seen in the Eiffel Tower.
What is a Triangle?
500
The part of a robot that interacts with its environment, such as a hand, welder, clamp, screwdriver, etc.
What is an Actuator or End Effector?
500
This is the result of years of burning Fossil Fuels, which have released Greenhouse Gases that become trapped in the Earth's atmosphere and capture more solar heat.