That are going extinct, and i just think that if i can help them, it would be the most amazing thing in the world to me. Tanner i think theres that aspect of it, of like, pushing mankind forward. Like, the opportunity for the kids to be going to mars in 20 years is very is very realistic. One of them will probably be up there. Yeah. Yeah. So. Thats what i want to see. Wow. Come on, in, guys. Sorry, guys. laughs thats all right. My name is jasmine leyva. I am a reporter for the Silicon Valley community newspapers. There is a lot of stem within the Silicon Valley, but the difference here is that this is Something Big happening somewhere so local, and people might not even know its in their backyard. Tanner conditional. If you if wait, no. Wait, no. If you get number of sps held and it equals zero, sub position target to that. Jasmine what interested me is that these kids are trying to solve realworld problems. Even one of the kids said, earth is failing. Its, like, okay, well, how do you solve that . And these kids probably, in the future, if not now, have that answer. Tanner is this correct . Yeah. Pile. Compile. That way you can make sure. This loop, so far, drops our sps. Weve got points for our triangle. Now, which piece do we want to go for first . Large, yeah. The large satellite piece. Carol its go big or go home. Tanner it really reminds me of, like, for me to learn another language. Its going to be hard for me. If i was a kid, this, for them, is computer language, coding language. They just run with it, and theyre able to make it fun. We got this. We got this. We got this. What . So, ladies and gentlemen, we docked a large item. We got a penalty going on the way over here. How can we fix that . So basically, were competing with ourselves right now. And then we submit a code, our best code that we have come up with, to our region competition. Now, if we have the best code out of that group, our code will be uploaded to the space station, and well get to see the spheres actually play out the game in zero gravity that theyve been coding this entire time. Jack fischer if were ever going to break the bonds of gravity and become an interplanetary species, we need to Work Together, and we cant build a team if we dont respect and understand each other. If fyodor and i are the two very lucky people that get to sit upon a monument to International Cooperation and then go to an even bigger one. Every day, youre reminded of how many people make this happe. Male announcer jack fischer, Fyodor Yurchikhin on their way to the International Space station. Female recorded voice winchester. Do not cross the tracks when the lights are flashing. Tanner my love for space and science came from my grandfather. speaks spanish hello there. How you doing . How are you, amigo . Good to see you. Tanner he worked for pg e, and he always had nasa stuff around. And so to play a part in his legacy and where were going in the future, um, its a pretty big deal for me. So, weve got some pictures with history here. My dad was . A helicopter gunner. Vietnam. Wow. He was lucky he came back alive. Yeah, im lucky he came back alive. Oh, he had to. Yeah. Then i wouldnt be here. Oh no. laughs so, that was what its all about. Is that a piece of the space station . Yeah. Were they are surprised to have a. Hardworking latino that knew what he was doing or what . Yeah. I worked for nasa and most of the work that i did was parts for the space station. The stuff that connects with engineering and space, thats what ive got from you. Like, i always knew, pop i always knew from when i was too old to be in camp that i wanted to be a teacher, i wanted to be a leader. I wanted to be, you know, a coach. I always knew that, but i didnt know that i was going to be using coding to do it. Grandfather what youre doing with the kids. To open their eyes. So this one is the us lab. To see whats around them, to beneift your life, the benefit is there. And the opportunity. Carol . Target to, um, item zero docking location. There you go. Like, how do we accomplish this thing . That gives you the encouragement to keep going, you know . Yeah. Just keep it up. Thats what im going to do. Thats what im going to do. I see my my aunts and my dad, and theyre all, you know, six, seven, nine. Right after this, they come to our middle school program, and i got a chance to bring all this identification with the latinos because of what my grandfather and my grandmother made for my family. Its been important. Oh, so many years ago. Im 92 years old, you know, what happened to the years . They disappear. Yeah. My grandpa passed away, and. I wish, my baby sister. That she would have met him somehow. cries man we are still deeply impacted by their loss, although this year marks 53 years since apollo 1. 34 years since the Space Shuttle challenger, and 17 years since the Space Shuttle columbia tragedies, their crews are remembered forever. Tanner not only is it really sad for the people and the families, but our entire country. Its very scary stuff, because weve had failures before. So if something is going wrong two minutes in, are we going to have a chance to change it . We need a plan every little piece of that code, because a small miscalculation. Advik i think im already inspired by tanner and his grandpa. His grandfather was born in mexico, and he came up here to have better education. And soon nasa wanted him to work on the hubble telescope. Announcer our window on the universe. Advik and its still mapping to this day. Announcer . The breadth of the scientific discoveries its been able to make. Advik i found that fascinating. Announcer the age of the universe, proving the existence of black holes. Man the heavens just. Woman you know, i think the end of the story is. Man . Human beings on this earth ever imagined that they would be able to see . Tanner and because human life is very precious, we had seven astronauts on the Space Shuttle. Male reporter everything looking good on board columbia. You see our whole planet go by, and it just left me thinking that, wow, just 90 minutes and this whole planet has gone by. This one magnificent planet, which is the only place that supports life that we know of. So i really want to get that feeling again. So thats what im looking forward to. indistinct transmission female reporter its been ten years since the Space Shuttle disaster. After a 16day mission. The first woman born in india to travel to space spent a total. Female reporter 15 years after her death. speaking Foreign Language the hindu religion, its in every part of my life. This throne, its from my great grandmother and has been in our family for generations. The reason why my mothers picture is with the cards is we believe that when humans passes away, their soul becomes one with a god, and we pray to them. speaks Foreign Language we have a ritual where we invite the soul back into our house on the day that she passed away. And she blesses all of us. And then they go back happily for one more year. To the gods. Makayla i wish for people to be equal and. Like, have their own dreams, believe what they want. And i i just wish i can be part of that, part of that process. Like, adviks from india, and carols from her family is from mexico. I like how we Work Together. And it makes me think you can believe whatever you want. You can dream whatever you want, and that if you can Work Together very well, youll fly straight to the moon. Advik i think the greatest thing about space is memories of watching people whove gone to the moon. Its just, like, cool thinking about that. Man the eagle has landed. Advik because thats really hard to achieve. Neil as a symbol to mankind that we can live. In peace and harmony in the future. Advik you can be cheering and, like, youre the best person in the world. If you even reach space, youll be like, oh, were the champions and stuff. Tanner ladies and gentlemen, what we need to happen today, for us to get our code submitted on time, we need to have a learning environment that is focused. If this were a basketball game, this would be fourth quarter, one minute left on the clock. Were down by five points. Its going to take all of your brains in order to get this code done on time. Understood . Lets do it. All right. Were watching it. Did it work . Its coming. Still coming. There we go. Oh, what happened . Oh. Well find out. Well find out. Its coding with kids. Its a disaster. tanner laughs children chatting indistinct right, but the logic of it is if its not in our Assembly Zone, were not getting points for it, correct . Yeah. So this statement here is saying, go get it if its not in our zone. So it only put item one in zone equals false . So thats why im saying add one more and to that statement and item zero false. Thats what i was just telling you. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, youre right. First by dropping our sps next to the large, and then after we get the large, we put it in our but first we have to. Yeah, thats why we make the triangle. Yeah. But we havent finished any of this. Because of where the Assembly Zone is, this docking site is closer than this one. Theres a block in the coding, which is, uh, get Assembly Zone info. And weve coded it so that no matter where the Assembly Zones are, itll work. Were actually going to be trying to steal from each other. So its going to be interesting. Whoa, were winning. We decided were picking up this one and that one, the largest, and they give. 2 points each. So if we do it properly, then we should get. 4 points per second. Right now were reaching, like, 23 to 25 points. The objective that we had is to get the large item closest to us, drop the rest of our sps, drop off the large item, find the other large item, and bring that back to our Assembly Zone. Whoo whoo in the assembly. How many points did we get . 27. Geez. Thats a lot. I think we could have a chance. Seeing something thats in space that were programming on earth, thats thats, like, kind of crazy for me. So next strategy is either go for a medium piece or camp in our Assembly Zone so the other team cant dock with our items. So they cant steal. I wanna do a campfire. So our strategy is get the big marshmallows and then have a campfire. Yes. laughs all right. Makayla for our strategy, we decided to stick with our Assembly Zone. Im excited because. If we can win california, we can watch the competition live at the space station. If this one docks with the second item and doesnt keep dropping it, we should be good. Now the question is, does it dock and drop, dock and drop, and if it yeah, this is the real question. children exclaiming advik were losing. 2 points every other second. Let me get my. We have to survive. It reads the code once per second, so this region says, okay, if item zero is in the zone. Yes, item zero is in the zone, and i have item zero, and i drop it. And then it goes back and reads this again. Is item one in the zone . Yes. Does nobody have item zero . Yes. So itll dock it again. Hes right. This is very hard. Its this part of the code thats broken right now. Take the counter out. So this part works without the. Can i throw this away . Yeah, kill the counter. Yes. Bye, counter. Location. Item zero docking location. Im going to have to put the drop item and then take this off and see if. What . Youre right. Youre right. Take the conditional out. Uh, five minutes. suspenseful music advik does that work . Tanner do it. The moment of truth is here. Okay. Simulation . So were supposed to pick up both. Carol yes now get the other, please. Okay, okay, okay. Were almost there. Yes we got it. We got it. Tanner now camp. Its camping. Its trying to camp. all cheer yeah. All right, all right, all right, all right. So, carol. Yeah, carol is going to press the button. So youre going to save as campbell, california. This code is my teams official competition program. T minus 10second count. T minus 10. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. all cheer woman you can see if he can read it. It might be coffee. Cream and sugar. Man when you get a chance. Call the landline please. Hey, jack. We have the spheres tv. Enabled on space to ground four. Fantastic. Yeah, im excited to work with you guys. Im obviously, this will be the first time, uh, so. Man jack fisher might be the first one through the door. First time space flyer making his way into station for the first time. laughter i love you back, little kiddo. Woman getting set up for the spheres experiment thats about to take place on the space station. overlapping chatter for nasa versus ames. Man theres florida, idaho. Some from washington, oregon. Fischer your instructions, is that correct . Alvar exactly. Today, we will be doing the testing. Tonight. Were gonna have about a thousand students across the country watching us. My name is alvar saenzotero. Im the director of the mit Space Systems laboratory. Fischer all right, no pressure. Alternate. Alvar what inspired me to be where i am is really an innate desire to go to space. The hard part is that in real life you do not see the positioning system, the satellite parts, or the assembly area. We have to imagine them. Fischer post time for the magic. Alvar the whole world today does programming in the same languages. Thats whats gonna connect the whole world. If you are working by sending your code to space station while youre in middle school, thats amazing. I dont care who you are. If you have that ability to engineering at age ten, space should no longer be the final frontier. Woman copy that. And thank you for all the science today. Okay, well, stand by. Makayla we did submit our code on the anniversary of the first people on the moon. Do you think thats good luck . Thats a sign. That could be a sign. You know who walked on the moon . Neil armstrong . Neil armstrong . Carol open it, tanner bring down the screen. Those words dont let us see. So, before i open this up, i just wanna thank you guys because this was something new for me too, and for guys to first be our first year, like, im im just really happy and and proud of everything you guys have done. You guys ready . All right, high fives everybody. You guys ready . students chuckling, chatting all right. Lets take a look at the results. exhales deeply girl what does it say . Fourth place. Not bad for our first year. Uh, gallant robotics girls took first. This is the one that we lost, so lets take a look. So far, it looks the same. They got. 5 for their. We got. 48. All right, lets see what they do. Carol theyre going for ours. They did the same thing as ours. But look at their oh look at the scores. Oh seriously no it was probably our time. Oh, the triangle. Theirs was bigger. And theirs their triangles a little bit bigger. Oh, my god. Guys, look. They come right for the steal. Girl so do we. Ha so their code had medium. So we did lose to a better code. I will say that. Even though we didnt win, it was pretty cool for us to see that we actually made it to the top five. The gallant girls had worked really hard for their code. Good job. And i liked that we had the same strategy as them, that we thought alike. Throughout this week, were gonna be taking a look at the other schools code. And helping them improve it. So that it represents california in the best way possible. Were all gonna be part of the california team. The unicorn, thats our mascot. Advik i know they put the first place code up there, but our code was almost exactly the same. We still did really good for us first timers. Hats off to your guys for picking the strategy. Thats gonna go up to the space station. Makayla i think because we work so well together as a team we just got back up, brushed ourselves off, and we were off again helping the team that actually won. Now, were just trying to win for california. Come on, get your hands in, get your hands in. And no matter what happens, we still achieved something. One, two, three Team California chuckles this Robotics Program has lit up my fire because with this one i found out that instead i want to do it by myself. So i feel like i can do more, a lot more. Woman so all the schools are coming today that competed . Makayla today, its the whole competition. We basically get to see the game in zero gravity. This is the flag thats gonna be used to represent all of california. Carol, you can take it. Five months ago, if you would have asked me if i was gonna have this wonderful, amazing experience, i wouldve said no way. Man and now boarding the transfer van for the trip to the launchpad. Man 2 its an exciting moment. Man 3 you know youre going to on a crazy adventure and its about to start, so you. Tanner im hoping that they let me know what their journey is after this. Its good to know that all the all the hard work this year is over, and today is just about enjoying nasa again, and, uh, cant beat that. Woman and these students are literally reaching for the stars. They are helping out on the International Space station. Man the International Space station is a wonderful accomplishment. It was born at the end of the cold war. Its enabled many nations to be one in space. Man 2 apollo 11, the astronauts are. Man 3 expressing again one final time for the start of this Sentimental Journey into history, taking aim on the International Space station. Man 4 the summer of 2011, the space station was complete. You all are gonna be the generation that goes to mars, so i call you the space generation. Somebody was living and working in space your entire life. Man 5 we will never forget the role the Space Shuttle played in its creation. Farewell, iss. Make us proud. Man 6 zero gravity robotics, iss finals. Man 7 lots of cool middle schools form around the county. Woman i want to congratulate everybody around the world. I am so proud of all of the work that youve done. You have written code to control satellites on the International Space station. So, everybody across the country, give yourselves a round of applause right now. And best of luck. So lets get this competition started. If we win here, then we go here against. Were versus someone and versus someone, and then if we win, we gotta. I hope we can at least win the conference b. Maybe not the whole thing, but at least conference b. Anybody need a bracket . I need one. I need the schedule for the teams. overlapping chatter and, everybody, make lots of noise for the space station on the center screen. cheering and applause woman station imp for two, fisch. We are onboard with you and you are looking marvelous. How you doing, cady . I am great, but i will tell you that ive got some folks here and around country. There are hundreds of kids, and they are ready. My favorite part about living up there was the flying. I loved it. It was like being peter pan. You start to think and live and play in entirely different ways. When i was a kid, girls didnt become astronauts. For me, it took going to college, being in a classroom, and listening to a talk by dr. Sally ride, the First American woman astronaut, to realize that this maybe could be me. Man sts7 and americas first woman astronaut. Cady she had this adventure in her job, and this sense of mission. That she was part of something that was bigger than she was. The way we get to the future is when people show us the way. Man after her third flight in space, now having logged 179 hours. Advik meet the astronaut, jack fischer. Well, hello to all my friends in core 16. Joyce and cady, and the whole team that put spheres together. What a great program. And its here, and youre in the finals. All of you are champions. Youve gotten this far, and let this only be the first step. Dont let this be the end. Let this be the start of a journey, a lifelong journey of learning, where you grow and contribute to society. I think given what youve done so far, the future is bright for what you can accomplish. So, with that, good luck to all of the contestants, and let the games begin. cheers and applause cady you too, fisch. That was an awesome, awesome intro, and we are ready for you to start. Alvar and we are ready for the first match