Robotics Field Trip!
Throughout the months of October and November, four of
our MMS students teamed up with the South Shore Natural Science Center to build
SeaPerch Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs).
This was one of the programs offered in our MASPERS six week after school
program.
The SeaPerch program brought hands-on, minds-on
engineering design concepts and scientific principles to these middle school
students. The students built model ROVs
from kits using PVC pipe and other easily obtainable materials. The program was fun, yet challenging! The instructor for the program was John
Galluzzo with the assistance of Jo Frazer.
On Tues. January 7th, the students were able to go on a
fieldtrip to the Nantasket Beach Resort hotel pool and test their SeaPerch
robots. It was very exciting to see
their finished underwater robots move through the water and dive to the bottom
of the pool. The students in the video
are Daniel Kraus, Paul Kravitz, Michael Welch, and Graham Whelan. They were all very proud of their accomplishment!
