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Do you love LEGO and robots? Want to win a trip to the Island of Hawaii? Then get your camera ready and produce the most awesome MoonBots Video!

Let Us Tell You A Little Bit About This Year’s 2012 MoonBots Challenge The third annual MoonBots: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge is officially back! Now you may ask…. What is so unique about this year’s contest? The answer is easy…. EVERYTHING!

The X PRIZE Foundation and the LEGO Group today announced MoonBots 2012: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO® MINDSTORMS® Challenge. This third annual contest will challenge teams of youth to study the history of heritage artifacts left on the Moon, while getting an opportunity to learn about the new and exciting things that private industry and government are doing in the arena of space exploration, including the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE.

It’s the night of the big game. From the locker room you can hear the crowd maintain a steady roar that almost hums like television static in the background. You’re focused and your mind is in the zone. Final preparations are made before you finally take that slow-motion walk out of the entry tunnel and set foot on the stadium floor to a crowd of 20,000+ people, each one of them waiting intently to see what you’re capable of. This is the big show.

This year’s winning MoonBots team, the LEGO® Aces from Granville, Ohio were treated to a VIP tour of Kennedy Space Center as part of their Grand Prize Experience. Their day included touring NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, seeing the Space Shuttle Endeavour close up, and meeting a three-time shuttle astronaut!

The MoonBots 2.0 grand prize trip to LEGOLAND® Florida took place in mid-October. This year’s winning MoonBots team, the LEGO® Aces from Granville, Ohio were treated to a pre-opening day VIP tour of the park and participated in grand opening events. The prize experience also included a VIP trip to Kennedy Space Center which will be detailed in an upcoming blog. Stay tuned!