{"id":20438,"date":"2013-11-08T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=20438"},"modified":"2013-11-21T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T15:08:33","slug":"lycee-victor-duruy-dreams-beyond-the-limits-of-the-sky-with-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2013\/11\/lycee-victor-duruy-dreams-beyond-the-limits-of-the-sky-with-solidworks.html","title":{"rendered":"Students At Lyc\u00e9e Victor Duruy Take On The Challenge Of Mars Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Douglas Quaid and his\u00a0dream\u00a0about going\u00a0to Mars in Total Recall <\/i>isn\u2019t just a story reserved for the big screen. The students at the Lyc\u00e9e Victor Duruy<\/a> high school in Bagn\u00e8res-de-Bigorre also dream big when it comes exploring the red planet; minus the mutants, espionage, and rebels. In preparation for the 2009 Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, a team of students from 17 schools in Toulouse, including Lyc\u00e9e Victor Duruy, designed a life-size replica of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mars Curiosity<\/em> rover<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Students with the NASA Mars Curiosity Rover at the 2009 Paris Air Show<\/figcaption><\/figure>In addition to\u00a0teaching SolidWorks Education Edition in schools, Lyc\u00e9e Victor Duruy decided to give its students real-world experience by offering them the chance to work on the NASA\u00a0Mars Curiosity <\/em>rover, from the initial design to the working on the subassemblies involved in the product, and finally unveiling it at the Air Show. Working in SolidWorks, students collaborated and communicated with the other schools involved, all in one development platform while being exposed to different technical disciplines, such as IT\/networks, electronic engineering, mechanics\/industrial, and automation.<\/p>\n

During the first year of the project phase, the steering committee (comprised of representatives of the Toulouse educational authority) added a competitive element to the design process to make it more realistic. Schools were challenged to create design specs for the rover\u2019s mast and manipulator arm to present to the design selection committee. Winning the contest, Lyc\u00e9e Victor Duruy succeeded in creating an innovative design, which had forced them to apply their classroom knowledge to a real-world scenario.<\/p>\n

Dive deeper into the Lyc\u00e9e Victor Duruy story and read the case study on SolidWorks.com<\/a><\/h1>\n

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