Adding to the excitement of this year’s event, middle and high school students got an underwater view of their SeaPerch robots as they raced through obstacle courses during the fourth annual SeaPerch National Challenge held May 17 in Hattiesburg, Miss. Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Foundation, this year’s challenge took place in the Johnson Natatorium on the University of Southern Mississippi campus. Approximately 100 student teams from around the country each built remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)—called SeaPerch—as part of a curriculum designed to develop skills and encourage interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). “These students spent lots of time in school and after school working together to solve problems and practice the basics of engineering and robotics as they built their underwater vehicles,” said Kelly Cooper, a program officer in ONR’s Sea Platforms and Weapons Division. “The immediate payoff for them is getting their vehicles in the water for the competition, but the big payoff for us is getting more and more kids on STEM career paths.” In each lane of the competition pool, rugged, low-cost underwater cameras showed the teams how their robots were performing. From pool deck monitors, teams
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