MATE's 2007 Summer Institute for Faculty Development July 29 - August 5
Advanced ROV Building for Classroom Projects

Curriculum Products

 
Participant Name School/ Affiliation Success
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.
Jeff Rhodes North Royalton High School- North Royalton, OH  
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
William B. Cooley Health, Science, Technology High School- Providence, RI
Brian Hawkins
Oklahoma State University- Stillwater, OK
Mark Hall

Weber Institute- Stockton, CA  
Eric Tong Mililani High School-Mililani, HI
David Haynes
 
Channel Island High School- Ventura, CA  
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.)

 

Patrick Burke

Yorktown High School

 

Zuley Gokay

Maritime Magnet Program- South Broward High School- Hollywood, FL  
Grant Bowen
 
Lummi Nation School- Bellingham, WA
 
Jim Bock San Joaquin County Office of Education- Stockton, CA  
Sirena Hargrove-Leak
Elon University- Elon, NC
Jennifer Hughes



Clark Magnet High School-  La Crescenta, CA



 
Bart Miller Lincoln High School- Portland, OR  
Mindy Bogart Ashley High School- Wilmington, NC
Kevin Jenerette Coastal Carolina University- Conway, SC
Maureen Garrett Arizona Western College- Yuma, AZ  
Vivian Miller  
Joe Slovack Cerro Coso Community College- Mammoth Lakes, CA  
Fred Hochstaedter Monterey Peninsula College- Monterey, CA

 

 
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