All girl team brings SAR robot to White House

Posted by admin on Jul 10, 2014 at 8:41 am America/Chicago

The White House hosted its annual science fair Tuesday, May 27, 2014 with a special focus on girls and women who have excelled in the science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, fields. Katelyn Sweeney and Olivia Van Amsterdam from Natick High School showcased an invention that is able "to traverse ice and deploy a small, submersible robot into the water to carry out the preliminary search pattern". The two girls designed the robot through the Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams program. The remotely operated vehicle can go 40 feet deep and withstand temperatures as low as 33 degrees. Check out more information at wgbhnews.org