MIT Sea Grant's new Sea Perch program introduces pre-college students to the wonders of underwater robotics. Part of the Office of Naval Research's initiative, "Recruiting the Next Generation of Naval Architects," this program teaches students how to build an underwater robot (called a Sea Perch), how to build a propulsion system, how to develop a controller, and how to investigate weight and buoyancy.
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We are committed to educating our citizenry about the opportunities and challenges associated with continued expansion into the marine realm. Our goals in this area include giving K-12 students hands-on exposure to fisheries and underwater robotics, providing coastal managers and researchers with workshops and symposia, and communicating the results and implications of our research to as wide an audience as possible. We will continue to foster collaboration with other groups and institutions in these efforts.
EDUCATION NEWS
Sea Perch Workshop at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Brings Underwater Robotics into Classrooms
MIT Outreach Groups Collaborate for Successful Summer Program
Sea Perch Teacher Training Announced: Worcester, MA, November 6-7, 2009
A Partnership Between Commercial Fishermen and K-12 Classrooms
The Adopt-a-Boat program facilitates educational partnerships between fishermen
and K-12 classrooms throughout New England.
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Eelgrass is both the most abundant seagrass in Massachusetts and one of the most ecologically valuable marine and estuarine habitats in North American coastal waters. In this project, students are learning to cultivate eelgrass as part of a polyculture recirculating aquaculture system.
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MIT Sea Grant recognized the need to aid in the development
of aquaculture in Massachusetts and started a Boston Aquaculture
Initiative Program to deal with these issues. In January
of 1998, MIT Sea Grant's Marine Education Center began
operation.
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