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Meet our Mentor!

Today we had a chance to connect with a new member of our team. Mike Ferullo is a robotics engineer at NASA. We had a video chat together with Mike and took some time for the team to get acquainted.

What a neat job he has - managing and operating the Canada Robot Arm and the Dextre Robot on the International Space Station. He described how his team manipulates Dextre to 'walk' around the outside of the ISS and manipulate equipment in space. The robot can reach out with its 'arms' and reattach to many places along ISS - to allow it to crawl anywhere it is needed on the outside.



Ben and Matt worked on the attachment to the unistrut and frame assembly.
Zach and Morgan continued the coding process.

All group members (except for Sam and Emily S.) met the NASA MgUE mentor.


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