ERIC Number: EJ994491
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Publication Date: 2012-Mar
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Student-Built ROVs Explore Shipwrecks
Ibrahim, Najwa; Trabucco, Kelsey
Tech Directions, v71 n8 p12-14 Mar 2012
The mysteries of the deep aren't always unsolvable. The students of Natick (Massachusetts) High School's robotics club and robotics courses took on a project that resulted in their locating and remotely exploring a barge that sank in Newfound Lake in New Hampshire, likely in the early 1900s. They did it by designing, building, and operating three remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). Natick High School's A+ Certification class had built an ROV in 2008 that re-discovered the Stella-Marion wreck that towed the elusive barge. The objective of the activity was to develop students' technical skills using SeaPerch base models as the starting point for modification. The students and their advisor, technology teacher Doug Scott, aimed to locate and document a circa 1902-built barge with the modified SeaPerch ROVs, then to report their findings to interested historical groups and to showcase the students' work.
Descriptors: Robotics, Local History, Historians, Technology Education, Computer Assisted Design, High School Students
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Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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