February 2025
We extend an extra WARM greeting to our lovely MARS enthusiasts, followers, and first-time blog-viewers! We are very excited to be reinstituting this blog page for the upcoming semester, and hope you all choose to stay along for the MARS journey - from our progress on the lunar rover, exciting outreach events, to fun along the way.
December 2024
Fall semester was jam-packed with progress. We are well underway with our robot designs and training the next generation of engineers. But on the side, we've enjoyed social events and manning concessions booths. From marsgiving to a Sabrina Carpenter concert, the MARS team knows how to throw a good func.
March 10th 2024
Hey everyone! So much has happened from our last update, so let’s get started! We started off the semester with a bang! ...er, outreach event! Before classes resumed, a few of our members (including me!) gave a presentation to local high school . . .
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