Exploring Distant Worlds as a Space Robot Engineer

Get to Work with Science and Technology

by Ruth Owen

Huddled in tense silence, a team of scientists watches a bank of flickering screens. Years of design and engineering work, tests, failures, redesigns, and successes are bound up in this moment. Finally, a grainy picture appears on the screens. Cheers erupt as the men and women realize their robot has landed safely on Mars! Get to Work with Science and Technology is a fascinating new series that introduces readers to the real-life applications of STEM subjects. In Exploring Distant Worlds as a Space Robot Engineer, readers will meet the scientists who design and build robots, send them into space, and even drive the rovers that are exploring Mars today. Told in a lively narrative style, this book includes firsthand accounts of life as a space scientist and robotics engineer, dramatic anecdotes, and behind-the-scenes photos. Readers will also get the chance to try out their robot designing skills with activities that are perfect for science fair projects.

32 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 2015

About the author

Ruth Owen has been developing, editing, and writing children’s books for over 10 years. She particularly enjoys working on books about animals and the natural world. Ruth lives in Cornwall, England, just minutes from the ocean. She loves gardening and caring for her family of llamas.

There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. ( Ruth Owen, Romance Writer)

Reviews

[Michael]

With all our emphasis on teaching STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), it is easy to forget that kids will teach themselves by reading so much more than we can ever teach them, if only we have the books to point them to. Where high-tech meets high-interest, that is where future scientists and engineers are born. Space Robot Engineer brings you inside the most advanced labs on Earth, and to the most desolate landscapes on Mars, not to show you a glimpse of the future but to portray amazing work going on today. Want kids to join a robotics club? Try showing them what real robots can do.

Other books in this series:
Asteroid Hunters
The Wild World of a Zoo Vet
The Wonderful Worlds of a Video Game Designer

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