USA: Students Compete in ROV Challenge Day in Bremerton

The Remotely Operated Vehicles Challenge Day will be held on June 2 at the Olympic High School swimming pool in Bremerton. Over a hundred students from fifteen schools will participate in this event.

About a thousand students from high schools and junior high schools from the Kitsap County have designed and built their own remotely operated vehicles with cameras and monitors, Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal reports. They received help from many volunteers among which were volunteers from Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport along with Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.

Navy divers will help the students set up the course and assist with possible ROV mechanical difficulties during the competition.

The ROV program for high schools and junior high schools commenced in order to increase the young people’s interest into science, technology, engineering and math.

The ROV program started in 2005, and since then about 5000 students have participated in these contests. This is the first year that students competed against each other. Over a thousand students from Kitsap County are expected to attend the challenge.

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Subsea World News Staff, May 24, 2012