Mt. Nebo Junior High’s Science Club started a program called SeaPerch. The students build underwater robots by integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum. Mt. Nebo has approximately 40 students participating in the science club. SeaPerch enables these students to experience scientific processing and the field of engineering.
Science teachers and advisers, Darwin Deming and Karen Cloud, introduced one of the science club teams that included Greg Devenport, Wyatt Mullen, Keon Tribett, and Sydni Hone (absent) to the Nebo School Board of Education.
The students demonstrated their robots that were designed from a PVC pipe frame with mounted motors and propellers for propulsion. The students learned how to waterproof the electrical motors, mount the propellers on the motors, wire the motors to electrical cables, tether wire cable to the controls, and build as well as solder a circuit board for the control box.
Mt. Nebo’s Science Club of 14 teams will be competing at BYU and have ambition to qualify for the national competition in Indiana.
To learn more about SeaPerch, go to www.seaperch.org.
Mt. Nebo Junior High Students Build Underwater Robots
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Lana Hiskey
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