Announcer: The Bionic Bears?
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Announcer: No other scorers having autonomous as period as our human players but game pieces into play.
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Announcer: Oh, they got it.
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Announcer: 45 seconds left. There goes 1251, they're trying to make another logo. They've done it.
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Announcer: ? two? one? there it goes, there it goes, it scores.
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Student: Mr. Cabana is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and a member of
the Astronaut Hall of Fame. Please welcome the Director of Kennedy Space Center Mr. Robert Cabana.
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Robert Cabana/Director, Kennedy Space Center: You guys are amazing. My hats off to you.
You are so far ahead of where I was when I was in high school,
it's amazing. And I just want you to keep that motivation, keep that enthusiasm.
You know, I'm going to talk about a lot of things, but to the students,
often times I get asked, You know, ?How do I become an astronaut?" ?How do I succeed?"
?What do I need to do?" And, you're doing it. And that is, find something that you really enjoy.
And, you know, explore a little bit.
But if you find something that you really enjoy, you're going to excel at it and you're
going to do well. Don't do it because you think you're going to make a lot of money,
or somebody else wants you to do it, or you can make somebody else happy, do it because you're
interested in it. And then, you're going to excel.
Robert Cabana/Director, Kennedy Space Center: What is there was a robotic helper? Or what if there
was something that you didn't even need to go outside for and you stuck this robot
on the end of one of the robotic arms and you're up there in cupola.
And your shirt sleeves instead of that liquid cooling environment inside that bulky suit,
you know, having to work against the pressure of the suit doing all these tasks
and wearing out your hands and stuff. And you're just driving this robotic arm, and on the end of
it, there's R2. And he's up there pulling, you know, broken boxes out of one thing and
sticking them somewhere else and fixing them. It would make life a lot easier and a lot safer.
So, robotics are really important to our future. And robots are getting better and
better all the time.
Robert Cabana/Director, Kennedy Space Center: How do you get to be a part of the
crew that designs those vehicles? Well, first off, there are multiple teams.
And you need to talk to Dr. Pat Simpkins over here, he's the head of our engineering department
at Kennedy Space Center and he'll tell you that we need computer engineers,
electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, aeronautical engineers.
And we build a team, all right, and that team is part of a program.
All right, and the program has the dollars. They're responsible for building the vehicle,
but they get engineering support from our Engineering Directorate.
And that's how it's done. And we define the requirements of what we need,
and then we have really smart engineers that say, ?OK, How do I meet those requirements?
Wow, that's hard, let's figure out how to do this."
So, you know, the key is coming to work for us and having the right degree
and then you can be part of the team.
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Student: We get it up, and then we back up and then the tube falls.
Robert Cabana/Director, Kennedy Space Center: Ah.
Student: So, came into some problems in that way.
Robert Cabana/Director, Kennedy Space Center: How's your mini bot working?
Student: Our mini bot itself works, but we don't have a?
Robert Cabana/Director, Kennedy Space Center: ? way to get it on there. No deployment system.
Student: Yes.
Robert Cabana/Director, Kennedy Space Center: You guys needed a little more design time, huh?
Students: Yes.
Robert Cabana/Director, Kennedy Space Center: Well, you guys keep up the good work,
all right. Do well. Nice talking with you.
Student: nice talking with you. Thank you so much. Thank you.
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Student: Mini bot deployed. Out.
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Announcer: 597. Play.
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Announcer: Robo Sharks and their partners.
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Score for a mini bot.
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Three points now.