SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah robotics club claimed the grand prize at the NASA Lunabotics Challenge at the end of May, ending the previous champions’ combined 15-year winning streak.

The Utah Robotics club was awarded the $5,000 Lunabotics Artemis Award for achieving the highest cumulative score in the competition, which required students to design and build a robot capable of performing construction tasks on a simulated moon surface. They also won first place for presentation and demonstration of their work, largest construction, community outreach and sportsmanship, bringing home $9,000 in awards overall.

The win felt like a true underdog story for the engineering students, according to Utah Student Robotics President Brycen Cheney. The team competed against 50 groups from u

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