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摘要

The Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum (GLNMM) have developed a traveling educational outreach program that utilizes ROV kits and a professional build ROV to promote STEM based education for all ages. These programs utilize underwater technology to provide educational activities that promote a greater understanding of the underwater environment through direct interaction. The technology used in these programs is small underwater robots referred to as remotely operated vehicles or ROVs. These ROVs can be created, designed and build by students or other program participants such as teachers. GLNMM has created a traveling educational outreach program that includes classes of different lengths and levels for people of all ages and backgrounds. Classes run from a beginning one of one and half hour in length to week long advance programs. These classes can be offered at locations throughout the region and include two separate experiences. The first experience is creating and building a ROV that the participants can use to explore the underwater environment. The second part is the opportunity to drive a professionally build ROV to explore underwater to depths of several hundred feet. Most dives are in only in depths of fifty feet or less. This technology allows the participants an underwater experience similar to being a SCUBA diver.