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Participant Name |
School/ Affiliation |
Success |
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Fred Donelson |
Gahanna Lincoln
High School, Gahanna, OH |
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.
Was awarded a $2800 grant for underwater robotics at their district for
Virtual Space Tech class and 3 summer ROV camps for 8th graders.
They expect to have about 18-20 kids per camp. They are focused on
recruiting girls and minorities. |
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Jeff Rhodes |
North Royalton
High School-
North Royalton, OH |
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Dominique Evans-Bye |
Clark Magnet High School, La Crescenta, CA |
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.
With her students, Dominique studied heavy metal contamination in the LA
harbor as it related to divers. Click
here to see the newspaper article about
their project. Click
here to see the GIS poster they made. |
Cynthia Fong
|
Hilo Intermediate School, Hilo HI |
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. |
Nina Rooks-Cast
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William B. Cooley Health, Science, Technology High School-
Providence, RI |
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Brian
Hawkins
|
Oklahoma
State University- Stillwater, OK |
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Mark
Hall
|
Weber Institute-
Stockton, CA |
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Eric
Tong |
Mililani High School-Mililani, HI |
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David Haynes
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Channel Island High School-
Ventura, CA |
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Karra
Shimbakuro |
Manteo High School- Manteo,
NC |
Was awarded a $1,000 grant from the
Dare Education Foundation (DEF). DEF is
a local non-profit organization whose mission is to help teachers
provide better instruction, especially in the areas of technology. The
funds will be used to purchase the technology oriented materials for
their ROV Club (homeowork board, h-bridges, joystick, SolidWorks, etc.)
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Patrick Burke
|
Yorktown High
School
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Zuley Gokay
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Maritime Magnet Program-
South
Broward
High School-
Hollywood, FL |
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Grant Bowen
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Lummi Nation School- Bellingham, WA
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Jim Bock |
San Joaquin County Office
of Education- Stockton, CA |
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 |
Sirena
Hargrove-Leak
|
Elon University- Elon,
NC |
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Jennifer Hughes
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Clark
Magnet High School-
La Crescenta, CA
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Bart Miller |
Lincoln High School- Portland, OR |
They have a first year MATE team signed up to compete at the regional in
federal way, washington, on may 10. Students who have formerly worked
with FIRST robots are designing frames, motor, guidance and power
systems from scratch for our first robot to compete with MATE. They are
forming links with our local university mechanical and electrical
engineering departments at portland state university. They have a great
deal of moral and financial support from our local school foundation and
local donors. They have 12 team members, including marketing and
advertising students working with us. |
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Mindy Bogart |
Ashley High School- Wilmington, NC |
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Kevin Jenerette |
Coastal Carolina
University- Conway, SC |
During the fall semester of 2007, they built the MIT Sea Perch ROV in 5
science sections of our UNIV 110 class for incoming freshmen. These
courses theyre capped at 24 students each and teams of 3 built an ROV.
They had 40 underwater robots on campus which made for a lot of
curiosity and conversation as to what they theyre and why they theyre
using them. The five instructors teaching the course theyre Sharon
Gilman (biology), Susan Libes (marine science), Erin Burge (marine
science), Prashant Sansgiry (mathematics), and me (learning assistance,
mathematics). The UNIV 110 course deals with transitions to college life
and student engagement in the campus community among other topics. They
used the ROVs as a part of the course to incorporate science into the
curriculum along with team building, research, communication, and
presentation skills. Drs. Gilman and Burge used their ROVs to sample
plankton in several ponds on campus. Light and temperature in these same
ponds theyre recorded by students in the classes taught by Drs. Libes
and Sansgiry. In Kevin’s section, installed cameras on the ROVs, and
completed missions in our university’s pool. The tasks included speed
trials, solving a jumble on the floor of the pool, and recording
information from an “artifact.”
Students had an end of course presentation to make on the ROV project.
They were to include information about one of the commercial vehicles
and its functions. Kevin also presented information about our
experiences during our campus wide Celebration of Inquiry.
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Maureen Garrett |
Arizona Western College- Yuma, AZ |
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Vivian Miller |
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Joe Slovack |
Cerro Coso Community College- Mammoth
Lakes, CA |
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Fred Hochstaedter |
Monterey
Peninsula College- Monterey, CA |
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