RoboCats: There is a teacher workshop for building underwater ROV's (Remotely Operated Vehicles) at the Georgia Aquarium , but I thought y'all might be interested in extending this to some off-season practice for the high school team in a cool new venue.
There are some ROV competitions offered by the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center.
With mounted cameras and probes, you need not restrict yourself to ocean exploration. What about venturing into the Chattahoochee River or any of the lakes around us. ROVs are also useful to explore areas where human beings cannot or should not venture for reasons of safety, size, access, etc. It would be cool to explore scalability issues with ROVs. What other engineering possibilities are there?
So, it looks like the GA Aquarium is offering this for teachers, but I see absolutely no reason why high school students couldn't be involved with something like this immediately. What do you think about building some ROVs to drive around our pool or to do some cool science in our local waterways (once they recover from the drought!)?
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