Twenty high school students from Puerto Rico are visiting University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering to learn about underwater robotics. The students are taking part in a living-and-learning summer program for research in engineering.
Working in groups as incorporated companies competing to win a proposal contract, each team must develop the best solution possible to their proposed engineering challenge and work on a research paper/presentation.
In the culmination of the SER-Quest summer program, students will perform an evaluation of SeaPerch Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) they built earlier this month. Their mission: rescue cargo from a sunken ship using these newly redesigned ROVs and the knowledge they gained from their research, programming and computer-aided design activities. SER stands for Summer Engineering Research; 'ser' also means 'to be' in Spanish. The SeaPerches are provided by the National Defense Education Program.
