We are making a robot capable of mining a simulant of martian/lunar soil in the harsh environment of space for NASA's summer 2015 Robotic Mining Competition. Comprised of a diverse body of students with a wide range of majors and backgrounds, our team is a student-run organization developed with the goal of providing students with the ability to explore their interests in electronics, robotics, and mechanical manufacturing, while giving them hands-on experience in several relevant fields of engineering. The team also works to foster an increased interest in robotics across Case Western's campus and throughout the surrounding community of Cleveland. "... to design and build a mining robot that can traverse the simulated Martian chaotic terrain, excavate Martian regolith and deposit the regolith into a Collector Bin .... There is particular relevance to NASA’s recently announced mission to find an asteroid by 2016 and then bring it to Cis-Lunar space." - From the competition website