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Indian Rover Challenge
The Indian Rover Challenge (IRC) features an engineering design challenge to engage students worldwide in the next phase of space exploration. Indian Rover Challenge is the only robotics and space exploration competition of its kind in Asia-Pacific which aims to ignite and encourage the spirit of innovation amongst budding engineers as they set on a quest to build a space exploration rover, using their skills and ideas. The competition challenges high school and college students to design and build next-generation Mars rover and compete in Mars-simulated conditions.

Indian Rover Challenge 2019
Indian Rover Challenge 2019 is organized by the students of the rover design team ‘Mars Rover Manipal’ of Manipal Institute of Technology. It is the only student-driven rover design competition. The sprawling town of Manipal will host the second edition of Indian Rover Challenge from 9-12 January 2019. The competition will take place inside the campus of Manipal Institute of Technology which is a constituent institute of Manipal Academy of Higher Education.

Indian Rover Challenge is a part of Rover Challenge Series (RCS) of The Mars Society, USA. The Mars Society is the world’s largest and most influential volunteer-driven space-advocacy non-profit organization dedicated to promoting human exploration on the planet Mars. The 2019 edition of the competition will take place at Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal, Karnataka, India from 9-12th January 2019.

Indian Rover Challenge 2018
The inaugural edition of the Indian Rover Challenge held at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore from 6th to 8th January 2018. This was the first time that a Rover Challenge Series (RCS) competition powered by The Mars Society Mars Society, USA took place in Asia-Pacific.

33 teams registered for the event and 8 teams battled it on the ground. After the tough competition of 3 days, Mars Rover Manipal of Manipal Academy of Higher Education finished the competition on top. LU Darbar of Bangladesh achieved the second rank. This was the best ever performance by a Bangladeshi rover team in a competition outside Bangladesh. BRACU Mongol Tori of Bangladesh bagged the third prize.

Organizers
The sprawling town of Manipal will host the second edition of Indian Rover Challenge from 9-12 January 2019. The competition will take place inside the campus of Manipal Institute of Technology which is a constituent institute of Manipal Academy of Higher Education.

Manipal Institute of Technology
Manipal Group’s name is synonymous with a legacy in the higher education services over the last 60 years. Manipal Academy of Higher Education, an institution of eminence, was established in 1953 and is a deemed to be university under the section 3 of UGC act. Over 28,000 students from 57 different nations are on its roll. Among private universities, MAHE is consistently ranked in top 5 in India. In the field of research, it is ranked as number 1 private university by various ranking agencies.

MIT’s rover design team ‘Mars Rover Manipal’ (MRM) will organize the upcoming edition of IRC. The team has 4 years of experience in making rovers. The team has already established itself as one of the best rover design teams of the world. In recently concluded University Rover Challenge (URC) 2018, it achieved 7th position across the world and was the highest ranked team from India.

Mars Rover Manipal
Mars Rover Manipal is a talented group of young undergraduate students representing the country in an international competition which calls for real engineering work. They have proved themselves time to time as the best Indian Rover design team, as they secured the 8th position in University Rover Challenge ’17 and then the 7th position in the University Rover Challenge 2018. With their motto “Design to Discover”, they seek global domination by designing and building the next generation rover for exploration of extra-terrestrial environment and development of robotics in interplanetary missions. The team has Experience in the field of robotics and Rover Prototype Designing from past 4 years. Every year MRM participates in the University Rover Challenge held in the USA. The team secured 7th position globally and stood first in Indian. MRM tends to organize upcoming IRC challenge on the guidelines of The Rover Challenge Series and the Mars Society.

The Mars Society & Rover Challenge Series
Indian Rover Challenge is part of Rover Challenge Series (RCS) of The Mars Society, USA. The Mars Society is the world’s largest and most influential volunteer-driven space-advocacy non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the human exploration settlement of the planet Mars. University Rover Challenge (USA), Canadian International Rover Challenge (Canada) and European Rover Challenge (Poland) are other major competition of the Rover Challenge Series.