OpenROV
OpenROV, Inc in Berkeley mentored high school students in building and deploying under water robotic vehicles (ROV's) in Lake Merritt. OpenROV CEO & Founders David Lang and Eric Stackpole and other employees, engineers, Cal students and scientists worked with the students from 2014-2016. Two vehicles were built and rebuilt from OpenROV kits involving approximately 30 student builders and hundreds of their classmates who cheered them on and received lessons about ocean exploration based on the project.
An OpenExplorer Expedition was created by the students, based on their work.
Underwater footage of Lake Merritt Channel taken from student ROV. Dr. Andrew Cohen of the San Francisco Estuary Institute helped with our identification of organisms.
SUCCESS! ROV repaired after leakage into electronics cylinder on a dive. Students learned this is part of ocean engineering and exploration. Many thanks to wonderful OpenROV mentors (Eric Stackpole here).
OpenROV Captain at LM
Team of high school students with ROV they built.
ROV put in at LMBC Dock
Student builders explain and demonstrated the ROV to State Superintendent of Public Instruction Torlakson, Mayor Libby Schaaf and OUSD officials.
Student builders explain and demonstrated the ROV to OUSD Superintendent Antwan Wilson, Mayor Libby Schaaf and OUSD board members.
A packed audience of students at Oakland High to learn about the ROV project and ocean exploration.
OpenROV in Lake Merritt. Bubbles are created by propellers as the ROV dives.
Student builder 2014
Student builders 2015
Student builders 2015
Student builders 2015
Debriefing a dive in 2016.
Testing ROV at OpenROV headquarters in Berkeley.
OpenROV Founder and engineer Eric Stackpole at Lake Merritt with students.
Building with UC Berkeley Engineer.
OpenROV guest speaker and OpenExplorer mentor Erica.