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Welcome to the 2011 Team Socastee ROV website

ABOUT US
On April 2, 2011 our team won the right to compete in an international underwater robotics competition in Texas by winning the 2011 MATE Carolina Regional ROV Competition at Coastal Carolina University. Our school is in Socastee, South Carolina, which is near Myrtle Beach.
The competition is sponsored by the Marine Advanced Technology Education Center (MATE) and is being hosted at the the NASA Johnson Space Center's Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston TX in June. Each year, high school students from around the world compete by building and operating underwater robots that must complete specific tasks that change from year-to-year. For 2011, tasks simulate those required by ROVs that helped to contain the oil spill from BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year. Simulating a deep water experience, pilots are not allowed to face the pool, but have to navigate using only the instruments mounted on the robot. Our robot is constructed from PVC and powered by four propellers.
Our team is: Front Row: Shannon Stone, Kyle Beale, Stephanie Hetzer, Meg Oshima, Cody. Rear Row: Kit Patel, Matt Ives, Brian Nguyen, Peter Strauss, Christopher Weeks.

OUR MISSION
We want to compete the Johnson Space Center on June 16-18. In order to do that, we will need to raise $3,000. The international competition includes high schools from USA, Mexico, Taiwan as well as university teams from Russia, Hong Kong, India, Iran, England and Egypt. We want to add Socastee, SC to that list.
If you can help, or would simply like more information about our project, please contact our team advisor, Christopher Weeks at: CWeeks@horrycountyschools.net

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