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B.C. students only Canadians picked for NASA space rover challenge

Surrey team also among the few high-schoolers competing to build human-powered vehicle
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Princess Margaret Secondary’s LeoCraft rover-building team with the school mascot. (Photo: surreyschools.ca)

A team of science-loving Surrey students has rocketed into a NASA-backed competition to build a rover that could roam on distant planets.

The American space agency’s 2024 Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) will involve 10 students at Princess Margaret Secondary who submitted a last-minute proposal in September, hours before a deadline.

They’re the only Canadian team among the 72 picked, and one of just a few high schools in the college/university-dominated competition to design and build human-powered rovers.

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Tom Zillich

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I cover entertainment, sports and news stories for the Surrey Now-Leader, where I've worked for more than half of my 30-plus years in the newspaper business.
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