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Participant Name |
School/ Affiliation |
Success |
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Fred Donelson |
Gahanna Lincoln
High School |
Mentoring his students in building an ROV for the Great Lakes Regional
ROV competition. Click
here to see a newspaper article with
students from their ROV team featured in it.
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Thomas Jett |
California Academy of Math & Science |
Developing a team for Southern California Regional (Ranger class). The
regional assembled 2 complete power modules out of the eight we will
need for the entire freshman class of 163 students. The freshman class
will be designing tools for task completion in the school pool after
regionals this school year. They will be working in teams of 4 using the
8 power modules in 5 classes. Their tools must be able to add onto the
power modules and be independently ballasted. The regional team had the
two complete power modules running for the school Open House in 2007 and
using 10 foot diameter pools. In 2008, a class of 24 students rebuilt
all 8 of the classroom ROVs for Open House and use again with the entire
freshman class. CAMS has entered both Ranger and Explorer competitions.
Developing a team for Southern California Regional (Ranger class). The
regional assembled 2 complete power modules out of the eight we will
need for the entire freshman class of 163 students. The freshman class
will be designing tools for task completion in the school pool after
regionals this school year. They will be working in teams of 4 using
the 8 power modules in 5 classes. Their tools must be able to add on to
the power modules and be independently ballasted. The regional team had
the two complete power modules running for their Open House 3/16/07
using 10 foot diameter pools.
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Dominique Evans-Bye |
Clark Magnet High School |
With her students is doing a side by side comparison of
VideoRay and SeaBotix ROVs on the charted R/V Yellowfin to decide which
brand will be best to purchase. Click
here and
here to read the articles. |
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Cynthia Fong |
Hilo Intermediate School |
Coordinating the Big Island Regional Competition in Hawaii.
Won the 2007 AstroDay Excellence in Teaching Award for K-16 (4th Big
Island Teacher selected.)
Runs an after-school robotics Club.
The Big Island Regional ROV Tournament, one of 14 regional MATE
competition sites was shown on Channel 27 "Living in Paradise" for the
Month of June 2007. Click
here to see the video. |
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Angela Simpson |
Crater High School |
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Mary Goeff |
Crater High School |
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Rick Pinkava |
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center |
After purchasing a pool similar to yours, we used the ROV building
project to showcase our programs at the 35th anniversary of the Cuyahoga
Valley Career Center in Sept. 2006. It was a real hit with the visitors
and was a good stepping stone for introducing ROV construction into our
classes. We taught a unit in the spring of 2007 to our classes and it
went over real big, especially actually running them in the pool. Rick
taught a summer camp here at CVCC in June 2007 for middle school
students (while I did CO2 cars) and was able to get a local high school
to let us use their pool. The camp was very successful. Jeff Rhodes (a
2007 ROV institute alumnus) will be running the same camp here at our
school this June. |
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Ross Niinisto |
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center |
After purchasing a pool similar to yours, we used the ROV building
project to showcase our programs at the 35th anniversary of the Cuyahoga
Valley Career Center in Sept. 2006. It was a real hit with the visitors
and was a good stepping stone for introducing ROV construction into our
classes. We taught a unit in the spring of 2007 to our classes and it
went over real big, especially actually running them in the pool. Rick
taught a summer camp here at CVCC in June 2007 for middle school
students (while I did CO2 cars) and was able to get a local high school
to let us use their pool. The camp was very successful. Jeff Rhodes (a
2007 ROV institute alumnus) will be running the same camp here at our
school this June. |
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Ronald Ozuna |
Roosevelt High School |
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William Monahan |
Nassau BOCES |
Is presenting about the ROV competition to students in his
district to start a team.
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Patrick Burke |
Yorktown High
School
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Edward Thompkins |
Mid Pacific Institute |
Currently writing the Curriculum Mapping for a class. Mid-Pacific has
just had its first Marine Technology class. |
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Craig Clark |
Weaver High School |
Click
here for the newspaper article about ROVs that Craig wrote
for the Hartford Courant.
Made a presentation on building ROVs at the Connecticut Technology
Education Association conference. His student's ROV was also on
display and they won Best In Show award as the best project in the state
for 2007.
Click
here for the article about his student's
ROV in the Connecticut Technology Education Association.
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Warren Knox |
Del Mar College |
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Phillip Davis |
Del Mar College |
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Paul Ashley |
Los Angeles Pierce College |
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Jim Bock |
San Joaquin County Office of Education |
For more information on their ROV camps,
please click here
Since the summer '06, have had 156 students in grades 6-12 go through
our introductory ROV program. The introductory program does a number of
exercises in buoyancy and electricity, then turns the kids loose with an
ROV-in-a-bag to meet a challenge in our above-ground pools. 14 of these
students have also gone through a more advanced program where they
design and build their own control boxes and pot their video cameras. We
mentored 3 Scout Division teams last year and are presently working on
the current competition with a total of 44 students and 7 teachers from
4 schools. We're expecting at least 6 teams to register, including 4
Ranger teams.
Held six ROV workshops with the support of Conni Bock for students and
community members. Click
here to see the flyer. |
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Conni Bock |
San Joaquin County Office of Education |
For more information on their ROV camps,
please click here
They have 12 student teams building ROV's. They have created a website
for their ROV project- please visit
http://www.edserv.sjcoe.net/robotics/ROV.html to view
Held six ROV workshops with the support of Jim Bock for students and
community members. Click
here to see the flyer. |
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Karen Henschen |
The Pier Aquarium |
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Pamela Olivia Gilchrist |
North Carolina State University, The
Science House |
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Dennis DelBarone |
Miami Palmetto Senior High School |
A team of his students will be participating in the Florida regional
ROV competition.
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Sirena Hargrove-Leak |
Elon University |
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Janet Vail |
Grand Valley State University Annis
Water Resources Institute |
The Grand Valley State University Annis Water
Resources Institute has begun to integrate ROVs into our vessel-based
and classroom outreach programs.
The vessel program takes thousands of students in grades 4 and up
on our research and education vessels for hands-on water quality
sampling.Many of the participants in our programs are from inner city
schools.
K-12 students sample Lake Michigan and a drowned river
mouth (Muskegon
Lake) by use of a Ponar
dredge. This is followed up
by underwater video taken using a home-made ROV.
We participate in a number of career fairs for 8th-12th
grade students. Marine
technology has been highlighted as a career pathway.
We demonstrate our home-made ROV and share the video that was
made using the ROV. When we
have visitors to our Lake Michigan Center for tours and classroom
activities, the ROV is on display along with the video.
This low-tech approach to ROVs is
supplemented by Dr. Bopi Biddanda’s ROV research in
Lake Huron.
Drs. Bopi Biddanda of GVSU-AWRI and Stephen Nold of University of Wisconsin
– Stout are working on a project to describe the abundance, diversity,
and activities of the microbial communities inhabiting submerged
sinkhole ecosystems.
Received a small grant from the Muskegon
River Watershed Assembly to work with a local middle school to construct
a ROV.
In Fall, the school will continue with their ROV work
and perhaps participate in the MATE competitions.
GVSU has a summer program called STEPS, a tuition-free
summer camp that introduces young women to the exciting possibilities of
careers in engineering, science and technology.
We made a “ROV-in-a-bag” available to that program and for a
summer camp in oceanography.
GVSU-AWRI was a part of the events
surrounding the Great Lakes Regional ROV competition on
April 28, 2007.
Dr. Biddanda gave a presentation on his research and Dr. Janet
Vail served as a judge at the competition.
With our experience at the MATE Workshop, we were able to make a
positive contribution to this competition.
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Stewart Burley |
Waimea High School |
Built an ROV to
showcase at a science show for 4, 6, and 8 grade students
(approximately 3,500 students attended the science show) and allowed
the students to drive the ROV.
Created an after school ROV club that plans to compete in the Big
Island Regional ROV competition. They have won 40,000 in
scholarships for the students and 5,000 for building materials from
Computer Science Corporation.
The ROV Club from Waimea High School
participated in the BIRR in Hilo. Airline and hotel picked up by
Computer Sciences Corp (CSC). They placed 3rd in the competition!The
entire school had an special assembly to honor the CSC/ROV Club. They
were recognized again on 21 May when all the schools on Kauai get
together to learn what company will adopt them. CSC and STU will again
adopt Waimea High School and start a new ROV Club. The team will also be
honored at a Senator Inouye fundraiser on Kauai 5 July.
The entire class of 12 will be going to college this fall. A couple
have changed their major to ocean science.
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