Stockbridge Robotics Team Travels to Key Largo, Florida

Last week, the Robotics team traveled to Key Largo, Florida with the Advanced Placement Biology class. (AP Bio) The Robotics team, consisting of six female engineers, spent the first four days with the AP Bio class scuba diving the Keys. They had labs and class discussions about the Sea Grass, Mangroves, and the Marine Life.

The Robotics Team along with the AP Bio class

                               

AP Bio and Robotics Team discovering facts about the Marine life in one of 

the labs. 

                                      

AP Bio and Robotics students interacting with the Marine life.

Chloe Hypes, Becca Ensign, Jamie Cool, Emma Morris, Karly Kruger, and Maddy Armstrong made up the team of six female engineers from Robotics. 

  

They stayed an additional three days, an extension to the trip, to be able to test their self-designed and self-engineered underwater camera system. The girls dove down 23 feet into the Atlantic Ocean to place their cameras to shoot a time lapse over next 24 hours. To the left you have Mr. Richards, Chloe Hypes, Becca Ensign, Jamie Cool, Maddy Armstrong, Emma Morris and Karly Kruger suiting up for their dive adventure. To the right, you can see Chloe Hypes making final adjustments to the underwater camera before descending down in the Atlantic.  

While underwater, the girls had the opportunity to become certified Aquanauts and stay underwater for 24 hours. They stayed in the worlds first and only Jules' Undersea Lodge and Underwater Jules' Marine Lab. Here, you can see the girls being taught a lesson in the Underwater Hotel by Chris, a scientist, on how the history of the Underwater Marine Lab.

When underwater, the girls studied marine life under a microscope, dived the ocean floor to I.D. fish, drove a Video Ray ROV, and even Skyped back to their elementary school in their hometown. While skyping, the 4-5th graders got the opportunity to drive the ROV located in Key Largo via the internet. Her,e you can see the view from the 4-5th graders' class in Stockbridge,  Michigan, skyping to Maddy Armstong and Chloe Hypes at the time in Key Largo, Florida. Below is a copy of the URL address to the interview with the girls on WKAR.

http://wkar.org/post/stockbridge-students-dive-marine-biology#.VN5U6DpeauE.facebook

The girls also were interviewed by many news channels and radio stations throughout the 24 hours while underwater in the Jules Marine Lab. Below is a copy of the URL address to watch the girls live interview with David Andrews WILX news. 

http://www.wilx.com/home/headlines/Stockbridge-Robotics-Team-Talks-Live-while-Underwater-in-Florida-291831941.html