The Mars Game , developed by Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Training in partnership with StandardsWork, Inc. , was selected as a finalist in the 2015 Serious Games Showcase and Challenge in the Business Category. The Pentagon’s Office of Training and Readiness Strategy’s Advanced Distributed Learning laboratory (ADL lab) researchers and Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems and Training (LMMST) team have joined forces with award-winning educators to create a math and programming Serious Game that is engaging and highly captivating with a subtly embedded, but highly focused set of learning objectives. In The Mars Game , the player takes the role of an autonomous Mars rover, sent to prepare a habitat for a team of human explorers who are already en route. Just before landing, the rover’s spacecraft is struck by a rogue asteroid, and the rover crash lands in a damaged state, its equipment and supplies scattered in all directions. Students need to work through a ser
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