SeaPerch News

News articles, stories, and press about the SeaPerch program and specific builds and other events around the country.

2013 National Challenge Results Are Available
Friday May 24, 2013 - Congratulations to all the teams that competed in this year's National Challenge. The final results have been posted.
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NJ Regional SeaPerch Challenge: Navy Lakehurst Sponsors Inaugural Underwater Robotics Competition at Rowan University
Wednesday May 8, 2013 - On Saturday April 13th, over 100 students comprising twenty-four middle and high school teams from South/Central New Jersey converged on Rowan University for the region's first SeaPerch Competition.
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At The White House Science Fair with Kal Penn & Valerie Jarrett
Monday April 29, 2013 - Go behind the scenes at the 3rd White House Science Fair with Kal Penn and Senior Advisor to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett.
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Video: NYC Robot Rumble / Challenge
Thursday April 18, 2013 - Check out this Channel One News video of the NYC Robot Rumble.
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News coverage of CTEEA Connecticut SeaPerch regional championship
Wednesday April 17, 2013 - Teens from ten schools and Sea Scout groups participated at the CTEEA Connecticut SeaPerch championship. Watch the video from WFSB Channel 3.

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Sanford Junior High students made a video about their SeaPerch program
Wednesday April 17, 2013 - Sanford Junior High Science students made a video about doing SeaPerch in partnership with the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
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Check out the National Challenge 2013 Promo Video
Friday April 12, 2013 - Watch the video, get ready, and get excited for the 2013 National SeaPerch Challenge on May 18, 2013 in Indianapolis, IN.
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Teacher Training at U.S. Naval Academy
Wednesday March 27, 2013 - FREE training will be offeredTuesday, April 2, start time 0800, at the U.S. Naval Academy.

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Robot Rumble at the Museum of Life and Science! Saturday, April 13, 2013
Thursday March 21, 2013 - Are you ready to Robot Rumble? Enter the arena and test out the Museums fleet of combat robots.

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STEM2Stern Newsletter: Capturing the Future Vol. 1 Issue 1
Wednesday March 13, 2013 - We are pleased to release our inaugural STEM newsletter -- Capturing the Future. Contained within this newsletter are stories of how our Naval STEM programs are having an impact, changing the lives of participants, and exposing them to possible Naval STEM career options.
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Metro Detroit Youth to Showcase Underwater Wonders
Monday March 11, 2013 - [Detroit, MI] Scientific instruction is happening on a different level-an underwater one -thanks to the collaboration of STEM Genius and SeaPerch in using an innovative underwater robotics curriculum that teaches students how to build Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs).
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Resource and Activity Guide Available
Tuesday February 19, 2013 - Resource and Activity Guide Available is a resource for teachers and mentors to quickly find what they need, map it to the learning standards, and get going.
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SeaPerch and the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA) to Partner in Indianapolis
Tuesday December 18, 2012 - SeaPerch and NTMA national competition participants will have the chance to learn from each other in May 2013.
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Oasis Middle School students build underwater robots
Wednesday December 12, 2012 - CAPE CORAL, Fla. - They swim. They dive, and they can move! You're looking at photos of robots under water. Not only can they sink or float, but these submerged machines are built by seventh graders. Only WINK News shows you the program that's inspiring a new generation of engineers.
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SeaPerch debuts on PBS in SciGirls
Wednesday December 5, 2012 - The new season of PBS SciGirls debuted in October of 2012, and the first episode featured SeaPerch! Featuring four girls working with engineers from the Naval Academy and Carderock, they built a SeaPerch and explored oyster beds on the Chesapeake Bay.
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Robots making a splash in Montrose
Tuesday December 4, 2012 - Grand Junction, Colo. (KKCO) - Navy Jr. ROTC students in Montrose have made some robots that are making a big splash. The students demonstrated their Seaperch underwater robots in Grand Junction, Colo.
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SeaPerch Spotlighted at AUVSI's Unmanned Systems North America Conference and Exposition
Friday August 17, 2012 - Las Vegas's Mandalay Bay Convention Center was the spectacular venue for AVUSI's 2012 Unmanned Systems North America conference and exposition, and SeaPerch was there, too.

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SeaPerch Supports the SeaGlide Summer Camp in Ketchikan, Alaska
Friday August 17, 2012 - SeaPerch supported the SeaGlide Summer Camp for teachers and students from across the state of Alaska August 6-10, 2012.
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ONR Exhibits at Boston Fleet Week
Wednesday August 1, 2012 - The Office of Naval Research was a significant presence during the Boston Navy Week festivities at the USS Constitution Museum at the Charlestown Navy Yard from July 4-6, with an ONR display featuring its signature program, SeaPerch.
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SeaPerch Testing at MSSM >> Video
Monday July 30, 2012 - Testing of a SeaPerch aquatic ROV built by physics students at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone, ME.
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SeaPerch program gets youngsters involved in underwater robotics
Monday July 16, 2012 - PANAMA CITY BEACH - U.S. Naval Sea Cadets from five states spent last week at Naval Support Activity Panama City participating in an underwater robotics program called SeaPerch.
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Panama City's Navy Holds SeaPerch Training Competition >> Video
Monday July 16, 2012 - A week long program for sea cadets finished up this Saturday. The students who participated ended their time at the camp with a competition where they got to use the skills they learned to finish an underwater obstacle course.
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STEM to Work - Sea Perch
Thursday July 12, 2012 - Check out this video recap of a group that included local defense contractors (L-3 and SAIC), Gulf Coast State College, and Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City.
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Maiden Voyage of the Homebuilt SeaPerch
Tuesday July 10, 2012 - Check out this home-video covering a SeaPerch's maiden voyage.
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SeaPerch Challenges for NSWC PCD Sea Cadet Camp 2012
Tuesday July 10, 2012 - This is an overview of the challenges the Sea Cadets will be facing this year after they spend 4 days building their own SeaPerch ROV.
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SeaPerch - San Diego - June 2, 2012
Thursday June 21, 2012 - SeaPerch San Diego Research Deployment: Students from Oceanside to San Ysidro, ranging from 4th to 12 grades, participated in a mock research exercise utilizing remotely controlled mini-submarines equipped with underwater video cameras and scientific probes.
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Grant will expand underwater robotics program
Thursday June 21, 2012 - The Southwest Indiana STEM Resource Center (SwISTEM) at the University of Southern Indiana is expanding its SeaPerch, underwater robotics, program to more schools in 2013.
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Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) Grants Fund
Tuesday June 19, 2012 - Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) grants fund the projects ideas and materials teachers need to innovate in their math and science classrooms. TAF is interested in funding projects designed by teachers or small teams of teachers for use in their own schools.
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North Kitsap High School ROV team takes 2nd in underwater competition
Thursday June 7, 2012 - Two students from North Kitsap High School topped the Underwater Vehicle Competition June 2. Matt Moriarty and Taylor Stracener took second place in the competition.
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One To One: with Springfield's Bret Black
Thursday June 7, 2012 - Bret Black has a blog. Not so unusual for an 18-year-old who is testing the waters of self-expression. Black describes most of his work as set in a dystopian universe."
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Piccowaxen students place at national SeaPerch championship
Monday June 4, 2012 - A team from Piccowaxen Middle School earned a third place award at the National SeaPerch Challenge held in April. The two-member "Savants" team of eighth graders Tyler Stanley and Matthew Fan placed third at the middle school level among more than 35 schools in the poster presentation and interview portion of the competition, held April 11-13 at the Manassas Park Community Center in Virginia.
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Kitsap students to compete at first ROV Challenge Day
Monday June 4, 2012 - Fifteen schools, 50 teams and more than 100 students will participate in the inaugural Remotely Operated Vehicles Challenge Day on June 2 in Bremerton.
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Middle School Students Design Underwater ROVs
Monday June 4, 2012 - For the past four months, during Team Time at Swampscott Middle School, a group of eighth grade students could be found in the bowels of the middle school designing underwater ROV's for the Sea Perch Final Challenge that took place at MIT on Thursday, May 3rd.
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National Space Grant Foundation
Thursday May 31, 2012 - The National Space Grant Foundation is working with the NASA Summer of Innovation office to administer the awarding of approximately 200 mini-grants to community and school based organizations that inspire and engage middle school students in STEM disciplines during the summer or in after school programs.
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NEEC Sponsors Second National SeaPerch Challenge
Friday May 25, 2012 - The Manassas Park Community Center in Manassas Park, Virginia was an ideal location for the Second National SeaPerch Challenge held on April 12 and 13, 2012.
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Check out the inaugural issue of the SciGirls enewsletter
Tuesday May 22, 2012 - Check out the inaugural issue of the SciGirls enewsletter! Look for content to arrive four times a year: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.
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'King of the Nerds,' eh?
Thursday May 17, 2012 - So maybe you've seen this. And maybe, like me, when you saw it you were skeptical of the intentions of such an endeavor. A competition elimination reality show about nerds? In what tragic new way could this exploit nerds? So I called them up. Turns out, if the creator and casting coordinator are any indication, this could be an intelligent show.
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11 Clever Greentech Concepts From the National Sustainable Design Expo
Tuesday May 15, 2012 - A solar furnace that works like a jet engine, a wetlands that reuses wastewater from a hair salon, and an algae-filled tailpipe attachment to clean car emissions are a few of the notable inventions at the seventh annual National Sustainable Design Expo, a greentech extravaganza in Washington, D.C
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Students, Robots, Compete in Bot-Battle of Manassas
Friday April 27, 2012 - A tiny underwater robot presented a huge challenge to hundreds of students at the National SeaPerch Challenge. The competition, held in Manassas Park, Va., on Thursday, April 12, 2012, brought teams from 14 states and the District of Columbia.
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This competition was just a yoke
Friday April 27, 2012 - Some competitions can just crack you up. The object of the egg drop was to package a fresh egg to be dropped from 20 feet - without breaking. Teams were undaunted in their attempts as they put their heads together, once again to merge victorious from the task. Did the eggs break? Why or why not?
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Student-built robots take a swim test
Monday April 23, 2012 - In the National SeaPerch Challenge, 70 high school and middle school teams from across the country - including five from the District, 10 from Virginia and 18 from Maryland - competed to see who could build the best underwater robotic vessels.
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Underwater battle pits robots against each other
Friday April 20, 2012 - It's a fierce national competition -- and some may think it's a bit nerdy. More than 80 high school teams from across the country, including some from Virginia, Maryland and D.C., will use robots to carry underwater buckets from one side of a pool to the other.
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Lake Castle students dive into contest, come up a national contender
Friday April 20, 2012 - The most valuable advice Tom Cruise ever received came from one of his earliest box office successes, "Risky Business." Faced with a decision of whether or not to throw caution to the wind and take a chance, a friend uttered the famous words, "Sometimes you've got to say, what the heck!"
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Underwater robotics contest held in Prince William
Friday April 20, 2012 - Sitting cross-legged on the hallway's blue tile, three Prince William County teenagers looked vexed as they considered what appeared to be a miniature version of an oil rig.The object of their scrutiny was an underwater robot vessel, and at stake for the Patriot High School students were the fruits of more than 100 hours of work and, perhaps, a trophy.
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Meeting the SeaPerch Challenge
Tuesday April 17, 2012 - On March 3, a SeaPerch Challenge was held at the Bath Area Family YMCA pool. The Challenge was hosted by the Northern New England Society of Naval Engineers ( NNE ASNE).
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Springfield High School's Sea Perch team finishes strong at regionals
Tuesday April 17, 2012 - No "sophomore jinx" existed for the Springfield High School students participating in the 7th Annual Sea Perch Challenge sponsored by the Naval Engineers. In fact, all the members of the Sea Cougars team, regardless of grade level, once again brought home top honors in two of the four categories.
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Out of the classroom, into the pool Students, USS Miami crew take 'sea perches' for a swim
Tuesday April 17, 2012 - Sonar Technician Tyler Martinez has a lot of experience working on submarines, so the repair job he performed on a "sea perch" at the YMCA on Friday morning must have been a bit of a cinch.
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Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics in Lego
Tuesday April 10, 2012 - Flickr user Si-MOCs has created 3 awesome scenes in Lego that depict Asimov's three laws of robotics.
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Robotics prowess taking Scott Elementary sixth graders to national competition.
Tuesday April 10, 2012 - EVANSVILLE - Five sixth graders from Evansville's Scott Elementary School will travel to Manassas Park, Va., next week to compete against 80 teams in the national SeaPerch challenge, an engineering competition that has students building an underwater remote operated vehicle from scratch.
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Hyattsville students soak up skills to prep for underwater technology competition
Tuesday March 27, 2012 - Underwater robots, made from PVC pipes, mesh, floats, batteries and small motors, have been built for obstacle courses and tasks, and 16 Nicholas Orem Middle School students will show off these creations at a regional competition in April.
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SeaPerch Cadets visit Kaiser Permanente
Thursday March 22, 2012 - At 9am, a group of United States Naval Sea Cadets, arrived at the Kaiser Corona center to conduct an underwater examination of this facilities circulating pumps. In today's industrial environment, this type of examination is not unique.
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Girls Get a Charge
Tuesday March 20, 2012 - Over the past few years, the NUWC Division Newport has been working with students in local schools in hopes of sparking a stronger interest in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math.
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US Navy LASR research facility builds robots, not ray guns
Tuesday March 20, 2012 - The US Navy announced a new robotics research facility this week located within the existing Naval Research Laboratory's main site in Washington D.C.
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National SeaPerch Challenge Set For April
Tuesday March 20, 2012 - Building on the immediate success of the first ever National SeaPerch Challenge held last year in Philadelphia, this year's greatly expanded National Challenge will be hosted by the Prince William County Schools on April 12-13, 2012 at the Manassas Park Community Center in Manassas, Virginia.
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SeaPerch Stakeholders Meeting - Live Ustream
Monday March 12, 2012 - SeaPerch is currently in session for the third annual Stakeholder's meeting. Join in and comment, we will answer comments as soon as possible, even during conversations!
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Local Students Get Hands-on Look at Their Futures
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - Sea Cadet program offers students chance to explore robotics.
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Waterford Kettering Students Build Aquatic Robots
Friday February 17, 2012 - The Waterford Kettering class used the school's pool to test students' underwater vehicles.
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Seaperch 2012 at the University of Southern Indiana
Friday February 17, 2012 - The University of Southern Indiana hosted 67 teams of enthusiastic ROVers on February 4, 2012.
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One Teacher and 52 Kids Build 16 SeaPerches
Thursday February 16, 2012 - Letha Boudreaux teaches marine science at St. Stanislaus College, a school for boys in 7th through 12th grades, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. In 13 days, beginning in early February, she and her two classes, totaling 52 students, have put together 16 SeaPerches from kits, working in teams of three and four.
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Girls Academy Builds Robots
Thursday February 16, 2012 - In Mitchell Greenberg's 6th grade science classroom at the Reach Academy, 14 girls are taking turns using a power drill, boring holes in what will become submersible robots.
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Sea Cadets Will Command Underwater Robots
Monday February 13, 2012 - By Marlene Stevens
"If you had asked us 3 months ago what SeaPerch means, we wouldn't have known how to answer that question," said Henry J. Nyland, CAPT, US Navy (Ret.), and Deputy Director of the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.
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Marine Forensics Symposium
Thursday January 12, 2012 - Scheduled for April 3 - 5, 2012, the Marine Forensics Symposium brings together marine professionals and historians to exchange information on historic marine losses, on marine forensic investigation processes and tools, and on case studies where causes of failures and losses have been determined or are under continued study.
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Pomfret Students Assemble Robot Subs
Thursday January 5, 2012 - Nearly 20 Pomfret Community School middle school students took time out of their winter break to build underwater Remote Operating Vehicles known as SeaPerch.
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Innovation Is the Key at the 2011 Northern Virginia Regional SeaPerch Challenge
Thursday December 15, 2011 - Even failure leads to success. There is a reason why it is called a challenge, as participants realized the moment the judging began at this year's Northern Virginia Regional SeaPerch Challenge.
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2011 Northern Virginia SeaPerch Challenge
Thursday December 15, 2011 - Robots rule Manassas Park pool: The 2011 Northern Virginia Regional SeaPerch Challenge was held Thursday and Friday, December 1st and 2nd at the beautiful Manassas Park Community Center in Manassas, VA.
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A San Francisco SeaPerch Journey
Monday December 5, 2011 - Susan Nelson, Executive Director of the SeaPerch Program, traveled to the San Francisco area recently to present the SeaPerch Program to a joint meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Northern California Section, and the American Society of Engineers local chapter as well.
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Education and Inspiration via Underwater Robot
Monday November 28, 2011 - If you like gadgets, and you like the ocean, then you must like ROV's - it's just that simple. For the uninitiated, ROV's (Remote Operated Vehicles) are small unmanned submarines that are used for underwater operations deemed too deep, dangerous or difficult for human divers.
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SeaPerch at RoboBoat 2011
Saturday November 19, 2011 - The goal of Navy STEM programs is to increase the talent pool of future Sailors, naval scientists and engineers. STEM enables the success of naval missions and protects the live of Sailors and Marines.
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2011 Regional SeaPerch Challenge Volunteers Needed
Thursday November 10, 2011 - here are just a few weeks left before the 2011 Regional SeaPerch Challenge.
It is going to be a very exciting underwater robotics competition. All Prince William County high schools, Manassas Park High School, Osbourn High School in the City of Manassas, and Seton Senior High School will be participating in one of the two days. Three teams each day will move on to the National SeaPerch Challenge in April of 2012.
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Roboboats: Autonomous Boats Aid Maritime Security
Thursday November 10, 2011 - The theme of the 4th International RoboBoat Competition, sponsored by The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Foundation and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), was "The Four Elements." Teams of students designed and built autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) that faced challenges involving earth, air, fire and water.
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The "Big E" Welcomes SeaPerch to New England Navy Week
Friday October 21, 2011 - The threat of rain could not dampen the spirit of SeaPerch for the thousands of visitors at New England Navy Week, September 24-26, 2011 at The Big E in West Springfield, Massachusetts. On display were both full-size and mini versions of SeaPerch, the underwater, remotely operated vehicle (ROV), which teaches middle and high school students, about buoyancy, propulsion, electricity, circuits and switches. New England Navy Week offered several free activities to help the public experience the wide variety of jobs performed in the U.S. Navy.
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DC Students Catch SeaPerch in California
Thursday October 20, 2011 - Meet Chayton Settles and William Corbitt-Mason, high school students at Integrated Design & Electronics Academy Public Charter School (IDEA PCS) in Washington, DC. Is America facing an uphill battle to regain its position as an engineering leader in the world? Yes, we are. At the same time, all over America, K-12 students like Chayton and William are preparing to become productive members of society, through hard work, perseverance, sheer force of will and wonderful, hands-on programs like SeaPerch.
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Sea Perch Competition: TechBrick FLL, JrFLL and FTC Teams
Wednesday October 12, 2011 - The U.S. Army Research Laboratory hosted a Sea Perch robotics challenge at Aberdeen Proving Ground on June 11, 2011. Sea Perch is an underwater robotics program that trains students to build a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) created by the Office of Naval Research (www.seaperch.org).
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Teacher Training Success in Bridgeport, CT
Tuesday October 11, 2011 - On September 19 and 20, Chris Hansen and Phil Kimball led a Teacher Training workshop for 17 middle and high school science and vocational education teachers at the Bridgeport Aquaculture Center in Bridgeport, CT.
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Los Fresnos High wins SeaPerch Challenge
Thursday October 6, 2011 - With a little PVC pipe and a lot of ingenuity, nearly five dozen high school students from all over the Rio Grande Valley showed their engineering prowess during the SeaPerch Challenge Friday, Sept. 30 during The University of Texas-Pan American's Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technology (HESTEC) week.
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Nat'l SeaPerch Challenge Teaches Students to "Cap the Well, Save the Sea."
Wednesday September 7, 2011 - The first-ever National SeaPerch Challenge was held on May 24 at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for top robotics teams from middle and high school districts and student interest groups with established SeaPerch programs.
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SeaPerch at Navy Week Detroit
Thursday September 1, 2011 -
The weather had reached unhealthy levels of heat and humidity not experienced by residents of Detroit since the 1980s, but this did not deter some 3100 visitors, including families and day campers, to visit the Detroit Science Center.

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Camp mixes science with recreation, and the kids love it
Tuesday August 16, 2011 - For two days of last week, strange-looking pieces of hardware were scooting along the bottom of the Harbour House and Truxtun Park swimming pools in Annapolis.
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SeaPerch Sets Sail to Save a Lake
Tuesday August 9, 2011 - At a 4-H camp in rural Maine, SeaPerch is helping to rescue a beautiful lake from invasive milfoil plants and at the same time is helping at-risk youths grab onto this reason to stay in school.
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University of Southern Indiana Hosts Indiana SeaPerch Challenge
Thursday July 7, 2011 - The big swimming pool on the University of Southern Indiana's campus might not seem like the most enticing place to be on a chilly February day, but on February 5, 2011, the pool was filled with Sea Perches from 21 teams, and the pool deck was swarming with middle schoolers, high schoolers, USI engineering students, teachers, professors, parents, and onlookers.
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Teachers Learn, Build Submarines
Tuesday July 5, 2011 - GROTON, Conn. Teachers from all over the state took on the role of student once more, during an event held in the Submarine Force Library and Museum (SFLM) classroom on board Naval Submarine Base New London (SUBASE), Feb. 16 and 17.
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Indiana SeaPerch Challenge Goes Statewide
Tuesday April 19, 2011 - Enthusiasm for SeaPerch is growing in Indiana where two universities have helped with sponsorships and facilities to develop and host a statewide SeaPerch Challenge.
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One Teacher and 52 Kids Build 16 SeaPerches
Monday April 18, 2011 - Letha Boudreaux teaches marine science at St. Stanislaus College, a school for boys in 7th through 12th grades, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. In 13 days, beginning in early February, she and her two classes, totaling 52 students, put together 16 SeaPerches
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Indiana State to host inaugural state championship in robotics competition
Wednesday April 13, 2011 - Students from more than 15 high school teams will compete in an inaugural statewide underwater robotics competition April 16 at Indiana State University. ISU will host the Indiana SeaPerch State Challenge, which will feature teams of students using underwater remotely operated vehicles to compete in several events....

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Tech Teachers Learn Underwater Robotics
Sunday March 13, 2011 - On February 16, 2011, a unique group of educators in Connecticut learned how to turn a box of components into an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV), gaining hands-on knowledge that they can take back to their classrooms.
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SeaPerch Helps Minnesota Guard Water Quality
Friday January 7, 2011 - In Minnesota, a new program is underway that will get middle-school youths involved in helping preserve the water quality in the rivers and streams of their state. A similar program is envisioned to test water quality in lakes. SeaPerch is part of both plans.
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SeaPerch Gets a Southern Accent
Tuesday November 16, 2010 - Thanks to a summer program run by Eric Heiselt at Mississippi State University, 10 teachers across the southeastern U.S. are forming teams in their schools to compete in the first southern SeaPerch challenge. None of them had even heard of SeaPerch until they arrived at the campus in late June 2010.
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On Maui, A Research Project Grows
Wednesday September 15, 2010 - Students in Hawaii are researching one of Maui's largest reefs and making connections with students in Alaska studying the Bering Sea. SeaPerch can help students in both places discover even more connections.
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Wow! A Super SeaPerch Workshop
Wednesday September 1, 2010 - Take seven teachers and seven students, together with their ideas about building better SeaPerches.
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Discovering The Beauty Of Innovation
Wednesday September 1, 2010 - Art, nature, and science were recurring themes in the projects participants undertook at a Super SeaPerch workshop held near Juneau, Alaska, June 14 - 16, 2010.
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Forging Connections to Advance Science
Saturday August 7, 2010 - "If the future of all world civilization depended on me, what would I do? What would I be?" asked Buckminster Fuller, an inventor and thinker who proposed that we are all responsible for Spaceship Earth.
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By Building SeaPerches, Kids Discover Talents
Saturday August 7, 2010 - Seventh grade is the perfect age to introduce SeaPerch into the classroom, according to Margaret Prevenas, a middle-school teacher in Maui, Hawaii. Children at that age make a lot of big choices, she notes.
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Learning Underwater Robotics From Navy
Tuesday July 6, 2010 - Twenty-one students are taking part in this year's Astro STARS camp at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. In June, the students participated in an underwater robotics exercise with the Navy.
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Creativity Gets Its Turn In Challenge
Tuesday July 6, 2010 - In the first-ever Indiana SeaPerch Challenge for elementary and high school students, competitors were given points for creative design and for being able to explain and demonstrate the ROV for judges.
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Indiana Students Compete in Challenge
Tuesday July 6, 2010 - The Bloomington High School South swimming pool had an unusual denizen of its depths Tuesday afternoon. It was a motorized robot constructed of white plastic pipes, black fixtures, and purple Funnoodle foam flotation devices...
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Training Future Naval Systems Experts
Thursday May 20, 2010 - The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) is proud to announce that a program dedicated to the training of future naval systems engineers will soon be realized.
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600 Compete in Philly SeaPerch Build
Monday May 17, 2010 - May 17, 2010 - The 5th annual Greater Philadelphia SeaPerch Challenge was conducted at Drexel University on April 24, 2010. Each year, approximately 600 middle and high school students participate in a three-month design and build phase that culminates in a five-part competition at Drexel.
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The "Art" of Undersea Robotics
Monday May 17, 2010 - May 17, 2010 - The group that gathered in the classroom of the Worcester, Massachusetts, Art Museum was as diverse as the art on the walls. It was made up of teachers from elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools... They each came to build a SeaPerch...
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The Future Is Now
Monday May 17, 2010 - May 17, 2010 - Reprinted by permission from Maritime Reporter and Engineering News. While the need to spur interest in engineering and science among today's youth generates plenty of lip service, the innovative SeaPerch program has leveraged the power of government, academia and industry in talking the talk and walking the walk...
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Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009
Wednesday August 19, 2009 - Read the full post: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/visualizations/
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Spotlight on Submarine Rescue and Recovery at MATE Underwater Robot Competition
Tuesday August 11, 2009 - California and Canadian Teams Snare Top Honors at International Student Competition Buzzards Bay, Mass.
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Students get lesson in real world through ROV project
Monday August 10, 2009 - http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/pat/community/46412122.html
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MarineTech Press Release
Thursday July 16, 2009 - July 16, 2009 - Dr. Alok Verma, Director of Lean Institute at Old Dominion University, organized two underwater robotics competitions under a project called MarineTech funded by the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV)...

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Celeste's Blog - Engineering Shortage
Monday July 13, 2009 - Late last week, I attended a Sustainability Summit hosted by the Center of Excellence for Energy Technology at Centralia College in Washington State.
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Robots Galore!
Tuesday June 23, 2009 - As I write this blog, I’m on way home from giving a keynote at the BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) Robotics conference at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.
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Neelsville MS students dive into robotics
Wednesday March 4, 2009 - Click the link below to read this article. http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/bulletin/article.aspx?id=45742
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Leonard P. Gollobin Graduate Scholarship
Wednesday March 4, 2009 - NDIA is pleased to announce the Leonard P.
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