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NASA has announced the winning student teams in the 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge and the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (Intec) team is a big winner with five first places and one second place award. Two awards this year went to the Don Bosco polytechnical school in Santo Domingo.

This year’s competition challenged teams to design, build, and test a lunar rover powered by either human pilots or remote control.

The awards won by Intec were:First place Remote-Control College/University Division titleSecond place in the Human-Powered College/University DivisionTask Challenge Award / Remote-Control in the College/University DivisionProject Review Award in the Remote-Control in the College/University DivisionTeam Spirit Award in the Human-Powered DivisionSTEM Engagement Award Human-Powered in the College/University Division

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