On Wednesday, Island middle school students hurried off the bus and lined the pool of the YMCA eager to plunge their remote operated vehicles into the chlorinated water for their first trial runs. The underwater robots were constructed with PVC piping, pool noodles, wire mesh, mini propellers and a control board the students built by learning how to solder.
The event was the culmination of eight weeks of work supervised by Megan Carroll, a research engineer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Ms. Carroll helped the students build miniature models of the submarines the Oceanographic Institution uses for ocean exploration… read more on Vineyard Gazette