Maker Faire Detroit 2011

Underwater Robotics & Saving the Gulf

In this project students built and designed an underwater ROV. They designed the machine as well as the control box and machine. It has a 50 foot tether connecting the student designed control box to the underwater robot.

About the Maker(s)

Oak Park High School & Melvindale High School

Bill Grimm is a teacher that has been at Oak Park High School and Cranbrook Schools for the past 14 years. I have been involved in teaching science and being the science chair at both Oak Park and HUB at Cranbrook Schools. For the past two years I've been teaching my students how to build operate and compete with thier student built ROVs. Randy Thomas is a teacher at Melvindale High School and in the secondary science profession for the 20 years. For the past four years, the underwater ROVs has a key role in the cross-curricular applications to the student population within my school environment.

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