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Seventh National SeaPerch Challenge Underwater Robotic Championships

By Phil Kimball ext month, more than 1,500 students, teachers, in 2011 in Philadelphia with 187 students grouped into just coaches/chaperones, family, friends, volunteers, 38 teams.

judges, invited guests, speakers and committee This year the weekend’s events will be divided between

Nmembers will gather in Atlanta for a fun weekend Georgia State University and Georgia Tech. The two schools of learning, sharing, competing and excitement. The Seventh are located only a few miles apart and will be conveniently

National SeaPerch Challenge, hosted this year by the Georgia connected by shuttle bus for the student teams. Registered

Tech Research Institute (GTRI), will take place May 20, 2017. participants and spectators will be housed at Georgia State

On the line will be the title of National SeaPerch Champion University’s dormitories, and will be treated to the “college with additional trophies being awarded in all three competi- experience” while also enjoying the entire weekend’s ac- tion events, as well as special awards in a variety of categories. tivities, such as the Friday Night Social, Saturday’s in-pool

More than 200 middle and high school student teams will competition, and – new this year – the Engineering Notebook participate in the underwater robotics competition held at the competition, followed by the Awards Ceremony.

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) McCauley SeaPerch is the innovative K-12 underwater robotics pro-

Aquatics Center in the Campus Recreation Center. The CRC gram sponsored by the Of