The Juxtopia® Group, Inc. www.juxtopia.org is a not for profit research organization that was started in 2000. Its mission is to improve human learning performance with science and technology that adapts to individual learning needs, enhances cognitive performance, and augments human learning capabilities anytime, anywhere, at any-pace, and for anyone. The Juxtopia® Group focuses its mission on underserved and disadvantaged populations to expose and significantly increase their science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) proficiency through empirically researched interventions.

The Juxtopia® Urban Robotics Brilliant Application National (JURBAN) challenge is a Juxtopia® Group program. The JURBAN challenge program was inspired after The Juxtopia® Group sponsored the 1st African American undergraduate student team to compete in the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge. It was soon realized that significant applied STEM training is required in order for students to compete at the DARPA Urban Grand Challenge level, and hence the JURBAN Challenge Program was ‘born’. The JURBAN Challenge Program trains underserved and disadvantaged students to build autonomous service robotic systems that have significant impact in their community. A special JURBAN Challenge Program team, made up of professional and student engineers will enter the Google Lunar X PRIZE challenge.

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