Rover

Team Leads

• Garrit Strenge – strenge.g@northeastern.edu
• Ben Thacher – thacher.b@northeastern.edu
• Heather Branan – branan.h@northeastern.edu
• Alex Zeng – zeng.al@northeastern.edu
• Ariana Patterson – patterson.ar@northeastern.edu

Mission

The Northeastern University Mars Rover Team is a group of 20-30 undergraduate students at Northeastern University competing in the premier robotics competition – University Rover Challenge. Each year, teams from around the world design, engineer, and construct a full-scale mars rover to compete in Equipment Servicing, Retrieval and Delivery, Autonomous Navigation, and Life Detection Tasks, at the Mars Society’s Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert. Students come from many backgrounds and majors: Computer/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, and more.

Team Members