More than 200 students from across the state will gather at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus on Saturday, April 12, to demonstrate their underwater robotics skills in the SeaPerch Florida Regional Competition, hosted by the Robotics Association of Embry-Riddle.
The public is invited to attend the opening ceremony and competition beginning at 8:40 a.m. in the Student Center on the Embry-Riddle campus at 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.
Thirteen middle schools and high schools and three student clubs with an engineering/technology focus are fielding 42 teams of three to five students each. Participating from Volusia County are three middle school teams from Burns Science & Technology Charter School in Oak Hill and one team from Mainland High School in Daytona Beach.
The middle school and high school winners of the Florida competition will move on to the national competition at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss., taking place on Saturday, May 17.
SeaPerch is an engaging program that equips teachers and students with the resources they need to build an underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) in an in-school or out-of-school setting. Students build the ROV from a kit comprised of low-cost, easily accessible parts and follow a curriculum that teaches basic engineering and science concepts with a marine engineering theme.
“This is the third year the Robotics Association, the largest club on campus with more than 350 students, has hosted SeaPerch, and each year this fun competition attracts substantially more teams,” said Dr. Charles Reinholtz, chair of the Mechanical & Engineering Sciences Department at Embry-Riddle. “It’s very gratifying for Embry-Riddle students to share with middle-schoolers and high-schoolers the exciting possibilities of education and careers in robotics and unmanned systems.”
Embry-Riddle is one of only a handful of universities in the United States with focused degree programs in robotics and unmanned vehicle systems. The Mechanical Engineering Department offers a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a robotics track and theCollege of Engineering offers an M.S. in Unmanned and Autonomous Vehicle Systems. For students interested in becoming UAV operators, the College of Aviation offers a B.S. in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Science.
The Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle (RAER)
RAER is the student organization and coordinating group at the Daytona Beach Campus for multiple university student teams that compete in various Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International competitions around the world. To learn more about RAER, go to http://www.roboticsassociation.org.
CONTACT: James Roddey, Communications and Media Relations Manager, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; (386) 226-6198;james.roddey@erau.edu
About Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, is a nonprofit, independent institution offering more than 60 baccalaureate, master’s and Ph.D. degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business and Engineering. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., and through the Worldwide Campus with more than 150 locations in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The university is a major research center, seeking solutions to real-world problems in partnership with the aerospace industry, other universities and government agencies. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu, follow us on Twitter (@EmbryRiddle) and www.facebook.com/EmbryRiddleUniversity, and find expert videos at YouTube.com/EmbryRiddleUniv.
The public is invited to attend the opening ceremony and competition beginning at 8:40 a.m. in the Student Center on the Embry-Riddle campus at 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.
Thirteen middle schools and high schools and three student clubs with an engineering/technology focus are fielding 42 teams of three to five students each. Participating from Volusia County are three middle school teams from Burns Science & Technology Charter School in Oak Hill and one team from Mainland High School in Daytona Beach.
The middle school and high school winners of the Florida competition will move on to the national competition at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss., taking place on Saturday, May 17.
SeaPerch is an engaging program that equips teachers and students with the resources they need to build an underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) in an in-school or out-of-school setting. Students build the ROV from a kit comprised of low-cost, easily accessible parts and follow a curriculum that teaches basic engineering and science concepts with a marine engineering theme.
“This is the third year the Robotics Association, the largest club on campus with more than 350 students, has hosted SeaPerch, and each year this fun competition attracts substantially more teams,” said Dr. Charles Reinholtz, chair of the Mechanical & Engineering Sciences Department at Embry-Riddle. “It’s very gratifying for Embry-Riddle students to share with middle-schoolers and high-schoolers the exciting possibilities of education and careers in robotics and unmanned systems.”
Embry-Riddle is one of only a handful of universities in the United States with focused degree programs in robotics and unmanned vehicle systems. The Mechanical Engineering Department offers a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a robotics track and theCollege of Engineering offers an M.S. in Unmanned and Autonomous Vehicle Systems. For students interested in becoming UAV operators, the College of Aviation offers a B.S. in Unmanned Aircraft Systems Science.
The Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle (RAER)
RAER is the student organization and coordinating group at the Daytona Beach Campus for multiple university student teams that compete in various Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International competitions around the world. To learn more about RAER, go to http://www.roboticsassociation.org.
CONTACT: James Roddey, Communications and Media Relations Manager, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; (386) 226-6198;james.roddey@erau.edu
About Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, is a nonprofit, independent institution offering more than 60 baccalaureate, master’s and Ph.D. degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business and Engineering. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., and through the Worldwide Campus with more than 150 locations in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The university is a major research center, seeking solutions to real-world problems in partnership with the aerospace industry, other universities and government agencies. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu, follow us on Twitter (@EmbryRiddle) and www.facebook.com/EmbryRiddleUniversity, and find expert videos at YouTube.com/EmbryRiddleUniv.