ALT A crowded auditorium during a Zero Robotics event held in a large auditorium, viewed from the back of the house. Many attendees in the seats have their hands and arms raised enthusiastically, some smiling and laughing. On the stage at the front, Professor Danielle Wood stands beside two other presenters, who are seated at small round tables with laptops. A large dark screen with various logos spans the back wall behind the stage.

ALT Two young women are seated behind small tables on stage in a darkened auditorium. A large screen behind them displays lines of code and game status text, the words "Match 6," and a "ZERO ROBOTICS" logo. To the right hangs a vertical banner reading "ZERO ROBOTICS ISS Programming Challenge" with a collage of photos. In the foreground, the silhouetted heads and raised hands of audience members are visible.

ALT Promotional graphic for the Zero Robotics Galactic Greenhouse High School 2026 competition. The graphic shows two small cube-shaped space robots floating in front of the International Space Station, each topped with a green sprout. Large text reads: ZERO ROBOTICS, GALACTIC GREENHOUSE, HIGH SCHOOL 2026. At the bottom, bright green text reads: REGISTRATION OPEN!

ALT Professor Danielle Wood crouches in front of a large yellow excavator on muddy ground surrounded by lush greenery in Ghana. She wears a patterned shirt, blue pants, and boots, looking directly at the camera. The scene highlights deforestation and land disturbance caused by mining. Credit: Doug Segars

ALT Screenshot from Bloomberg interview with Media Lab Professor Danielle Wood. Professor Wood sits in front of a large window, through which blurred columns and trees are visible. Professor Wood is in sharp focus, smiling and wearing a black shirt. A card in the lower-right corner identifies her as "Danielle Wood, MIT Media Lab Associate Professor." A chyron at the bottom of the screen has the title of the show, "Bloomberg: The Close," on the left, and the words "Over 2000 Senior NASA staff plan to leave: Politico" on the right.

ALT Two women sit on the white steps of a glass-walled staircase. They are looking at each other, as one touches the other's face.

ALT Three performers appear on a stage draped in translucent fabric.

ALT Professor Danielle Wood stands at the front of the stage. Another performer is lying on the ground stage right, while a third plays a musical instrument upstage. Maps and landscape images are projected on the walls behind them.

ALT Professor Danielle Wood sits at the front of the stage, below a projection of a woman in a white lab coat.

ALT Image of the International Space Station orbiting Earth, with the words Zero Robotics visible in the foreground; the letter "O" has been replaced throughout with images of a tiny robot. The logos of the program sponsors and supporters appear across the bottom of the image.

ALT Professor Danielle Wood stands in the spotlight on a darkened stage. An image of Saturn is projected on the wall to her left. Credit: Doug Segars

ALT Image of the International Space Station orbiting Earth, with the words Zero Robotics visible in the foreground; the letter "O" has been replaced throughout with images of a tiny robot. The logos of the program sponsors and supporters appear across the bottom of the image.

ALT Twenty-two people, including Team Space Enabled and Media Lab Director Dava Newman, pose with a large IAC 2024 sign.

ALT Professor Danielle Wood, Dr. Sharif Islam, Ms. Yiyun Zhang, and Dr. Scott Dorrington at the IAC.

ALT Members of Team Space Enabled pose outdoors in front of a red and green "city of milano" sign.

ALT A map of the continental United States marked with dots in varying shades of red, pink, and blue. Pink and red dots—representing heat anomalies above the mean—are strewn thickly across Texas, the West Coast, and Northwest. Light blue dots and some dark blue—representing anomalies below the mean—appear most commonly in and around Georgia and South Carolina. Courtesy of the researchers.

ALT Poster for "Sweetwater." Everett Osborne, playing Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton, leaps into the air with a basketball against a glowing orange background. The tagline "The Man Who Changed the Game" appears above him; the film title and credits appear below.

ALT Everett Osborne as Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton. Osborne stands beside a basketball hoop, wearing a New York Knicks jersey, Number 8. A basketball is tucked under his left arm, and he is looking up toward the basket.