Three young Canadians know how to make a splash in the engineering world—build their own underwater robot for the 2003 ROV ( Remotely Operated Vehicle) Design Competition at MIT in Boston, June 19 to 21.
The young teens, Virginia Davis and sisters, Sarah and Beckie-Anne Thain, are members of the OSG, or Oceanography Study Group. Their goal is to walk away with the top prize at the second annual ROV Design Competition for high school and college students. Teams from across the U.S. and Canada participate. In fact, this is the OSG’s second competition—the budding engineers came third in last year’s competition at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (See "Making Waves", YES Mag, Sep/Oct 2002, which you can download, for free, here.)
But can they pull it off again? And can they inch their way up to the top spot? Follow along as the OSG designs, constructs, and tests their new ROV.
Introduction
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| Virginia Davis, Sarah Thain, and Beckie-Anne Thain |
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