Grades 6–8
Mission to Mars
Choose the best engineering decision at each step. Score 75% of the points to earn the badge.
You are mission control for Rover R-7 (a made-up rover).
Score 0Scene 1/4
Landing
R-7 has landed. Battery 60%. A dust storm is forecast tomorrow.
What first?
What this game teaches
- Trade-offs: power, weight, speed and safety
- Using sensor data to decide
- Testing before trusting
Play together
- Vote on each decision as a family “mission control”.
- Look up a real Mars rover and its sensors.
Want more? This game comes from Robotics & Engineering: Robotics Engineers
See the program Engineering design with motors and sensors, coded with blocks then early Python, ending in a team mission challenge.