Winners selected in the inaugural Manufacturing Innovation Challenge!
On December 5, 2019, the six finalist teams presented their rover wheel solutions to a panel of judges. Read the press release from Mines Newsroom »
First Place
CLOVER (CoLlapsible GrOund Truthing RoVER Wheel)
Erchis Erdenebat, Gage Gellerman, Claire Thomas
Prize: $3,000
Second Place
R.O.L.L.E.R. (Rotational On-Demand Lunar Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Research)
Adam Marcinkowski, Charlie Fuller, Bradley Jesteadt, Deep Joshi
Prize: $2,000
Third Place
GRATR
Kyle Barras, Zachary Howell, Adam Hugo
Prize: $1,000
Thank you to our judges
Charles M. Rash, president of Griffin Systems & Technology
Roger McNamara, director at Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Steven Harford, chief technologist at Ball Aerospace
Challenge Flyer
Contest Rules
Six teams selected for Phase 2
Six teams were selected to move on to the prototyping phase! Check out the innovative solutions these teams developed in the short videos below.
Team 1: Roller
Team 2: GRATR
Team 3: Wheely Good Innovations
Team 4: Semipro
Team 5: Moonraker
Team 6: SPACE
Honorable Mention
Team Romp ‘n Roll won the “Best Pitch” award. Watch their video: