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Council’s STEM Classrooms Professionally Developed by TIES

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Although works in progress, Iowa’s newly minted STEM educators now possess basic STEM curricular design and assessment practices that over the coming year will be honed through practice and continued support by the TIES team as well as the support team consisting of regional STEM managers, higher education professionals, AEA consultants, and Extension staff. STEM professional development represents the third and final component in place

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Working underwater: Bay’s ROV team in action

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It’s not every day that you drive underwater; in early May, seven Bay students did just that, operating a Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) at the M.A.T.E. Monterey Bay Regional ROV Contest in Aptos. Returning to the competition for the first time since 2009, Bay’s team competed in the most advanced division of the competition, the RANGER class.

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Cheldelin students plunge into underwater robotics

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Cheldelin Middle School students hold a practice session with their underwater robots at Vineyard Mountain Swim Club on Friday, April 18, 2014. The students are preparing for a competition with a robot that performs a series of tasks related to shipwrecks.

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LBCC ROV Team Rises from the Depths

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From spare parts, very little money and great innovation, the Remotely Operated Vehicle team created an underwater, unmanned, robotic operated vehicle. This year’s team will once again face off against large universities and private colleges at the 13th annual M.A.T.E. competition. Marine Advanced Technology Education (M.A.T.E.) first creates a declaration of need. The team then creates a bid, backed by support to show how they can complete the

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Lincoln City: students to showcase underwater robots at LC Community Center during statewide competition

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More than 150 elementary, middle, high, and college students formed 27 teams and brought their underwater robots to the Lincoln City Community Center on May 10 to compete in the annual Oregon Regional MATE Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) contest. These teams, which spent the past few months designing and building their underwater vehicles, will be among students around the world participating in 23 regional contests supported by the Marine

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Local ROV team still a global force

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The combined robotics team of Ozaukee and Oostburg high schools was the leader during much of the international Marine Advanced Technology Education challenge held last week at Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Alpena, Michigan. Ultimately, ZO3 Robotics finished fourth in the Ranger Division of the global competition. During the competition, teams used submersible robots of their own design to recover samples and data from simulated

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Students learn about engineering in remotely operated vehicle competition

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Teams from six Milwaukee area high schools and five middle schools were challenged to design, build and operate an ROV to identify an unknown shipwreck recently discovered in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary waters, collect microbial samples and remove trash and debris from the shipwreck and surrounding area, in a “Remotely Operated Vehicle Competition" in Milwalkee, Wisconsin. Eventually, the hope is that these students want to take

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From first graders blogging to teens building underwater robots, District 57 bringing STEM curriculum to life for students of all ages

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District 57 is placing a major emphasis on the critical subjects of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM curriculum), through extracurricular offerings and enhanced school-day lessons that help prepare students to be the next generation of leaders in STEM-related fields. STEM curriculum has become a major focus in education, because the subjects play an important role in the high-tech, high-skill global economy that eventually will

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Science chicks engineer underwater vehicle: District 57 club emboldens girls with STEM focus

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The Science Chicks, a new club in Mount Prospect School District 57, designed, built and then tested a remote operating vehicle in a recent competition, living the goal of getting more girls interested in science and technology careers. The March contest at the University of Illinois at Chicago involved 26 teams from the area completing various underwater missions as part of "The Great Lakes" theme. They picked up items from the bottom of a pool

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Minooka students compete in underwater robotics competition

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Students from Minooka Community High School participated in the Shedd Aquarium Midwest Regional MATE Underwater Robotics Competition, using their self-built underwater robots to complete tasks, such as remove debris from a hole in a simulated underwater wreck, conduct a sonar scan of the wreck, recover a sensor and deploy a new sensor. The 11 students are members of the fledgling ROV, or Remote-Operated Underwater Vehicle Club.

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