Moon Shot - Ep. 8 - Mecaliks - Mexico

2016 • 7 minutes

About this movie

9-year-old Jana González turned to playing videogames after her parent's divorce. As her love of playing games evolved into programming them, she soon discovered robotics and joined an all-girl team competing in the Moonbots, a worldwide robotics competition for kids. Episode Eight of Moon Shot, a documentary from Academy Award®-nominated director Orlando von Einsiedel, Executive Producer J.J. Abrams, Bad Robot, Epic Digital Google and XPRIZE (http://lunar.xprize.org). The Google Lunar XPRIZE is the largest prize competition of all time with a reward of $30 million and aims to incentivize entrepreneurs to create a new era of affordable access to the Moon and beyond, while inspiring the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers. This character-driven, emotional, awe-inspiring series of 9 short films will follow a selection of the teams currently racing to complete their missions. It will explore the lives of their charismatic, quirky members, the sacrifices they have made to get to where they are today, and crucially, what drives them on this incredible journey.

Ratings and reviews

The Sun & Moon are essential to life on Earth, so you really need to be careful!!! The rest of space however is truly open to development and exploration and if the big bang theory is correct then every planet will have an equal % of the basic elements as Earth does, including Gold etc. Rockets won't archive a financially viable conquest of space, we really need research into a new power source.

Pienso que este tipo de documentales son importantes para generar entre los jovenes la inquietud de sobresalir. Adicionalmente les abre un camino para liberarse de traumas ocasionados por la familia o la sociedad........... Ojala las personas dejaran de ver programas sin ^chiste^ y se enfocaran en apoyar a personas marginadas por ellos mismos. Espero que esto que escribo sirva para algo positivo........se trata de humanizarnos, pues estamos perdiendo mucho trecho. Muchas gracias a los participantes...

Buen documental. Me admira, sorprende y encantó saber que México tiene una campeona infantil en tecnología en "MoonShot" Lo que no me gustó fue que hablaron de la cultura MAYA y mostraban las PIRÁMIDES AZTECAS (pirámide del Sol y pirámide de la Luna). Debieron haber grabado en Chichen Itzá (pirámide MAYA).