Nova Labs Kinetic Sculpture Team (NLKST) captured the highest honor at the Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race, earning the title of Grand East Coast National Mediocre Champion for its outstanding performance aboard Meep Meep and Meyond, a human-powered amphibious vehicle that impressed judges and charmed spectators during the day-long event.

The Nova Labs drive team heads for the field, following Perry the Platypus, their 2025 entry in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC).

Working with National Bell Festival to support the Solidarity Bell.

If you don’t have plans for July 4th, you do now! Come see Nova Labs in the Independence Day Parade in downtown Fairfax! We’re bringing the award-winning Kinetic Sculpture with fresh decorations, just for the fourth, and we’ve made another round of awesome cupcakes… but not the kind you eat. Nova Labs has been perfecting its cupcake game since 2017, when the Go-Cart Cupcakes first appeared in a holiday parade. Before that, they were designed around little red tricycles. Ever

2024 Nova Labs Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race troupe. It is not hard to picture a kinetic sculpture, or a race. But when the terms are put together, all bets are off! Wikipedia defines kinetic sculpture races as, “organized contests of human-powered amphibious all-terrain works of art.” While this barely scratches the surface, the event does involve such vehicles and it is somehow organized, if you are not too picky about semantics. As for the racing part, getting to the fi

The Nova Labs First Robotics Competition (FRC) team had a rollercoaster of a season! Our goal was to make it to Worlds, and by winning Ashland to compete at Owings Mills and Districts, we all worked hard to achieve that goal. When we did make it to Worlds, we were all blown away by the sheer enormity of the convention center, and by the creativity and uniqueness of all the other teams' robots and their approaches to problem solving. Waiting to find out if we might be chosen

By Vince McCullough This year’s Nova Labs entry in the Reston Cardboard Regatta will be the KARDBORD DRAKEN. The DRAKEN is designed to resemble a Viking longship (a very short longship), and is built using construction techniques that are similar to those used by the Vikings themselves, though with cardboard and glue instead of wood and nails. The keel of the DRAKEN The keel of the ship is constructed by laminating five boards made of 5/8” triple-ply cardboard together to f

By Paul Chase Last Sunday the Kinetic Sculpture Team met to work out what went well during last month's race in Baltimore, and to talk about what will go even better this coming year. The Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race will run on May 6th, 2023 - only 324 build days remaining! After meeting a new member, Kevin, and another current NL member, Josh, who were interested in joining the team, we reviewed the sculpture itself and tried to figure out logistics, and broad design to