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EDUROVs

Workshop on attracting and motivating secondary school children

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This project, entitled “Workshop to attract and motivate secondary school students towards engineering through the construction and remote operation of underwater vehicles (ROVs)”, is an initiative of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), in collaboration with the VICOROB group (Computer Vision and Robotics Group) of the University of Girona.

In this project, secondary school students and their teachers will build remotely operated underwater robots (ROVs) and demonstrate their skills in building and operating the ROVs in a competition against other schools.

The project aims to attract and motivate students towards technology through the construction and remote operation of underwater vehicles (ROVs). It also seeks to encourage students’ imagination so that they bear in mind that ROVs must respect the marine environment in all its aspects.

The main idea is to create small-scale, simple but functional prototypes using easily accessible and inexpensive everyday materials.

The centres selected for the project will receive kits with the necessary material for the construction of the ROVs, tutoring through the virtual platform for their construction and the possibility of attending the underwater robotics meetings that will be scheduled in different regions. At the final meetings, the centres will demonstrate the prototypes they have built in suitable and safe aquatic facilities.

It also seeks to encourage students’ imagination so that they bear in mind that ROVs must respect the marine environment in all its aspects. The main idea is to create small-scale, simple but working prototypes using everyday materials, for the construction of which they will be provided with various materials and the support of experts through PLOCAN’s virtual classroom.

To encourage innovation and teamwork, final meetings are organised in which the centres will demonstrate the prototypes they have built by carrying out a series of tasks common to all of them in suitable and safe aquatic facilities.

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