Syracuse,
NY; August 29, 2015. New York Sea Grant, the Great New York State Fair, and the Great
Lakes Research Consortium are pleased to announce the schedule of in-water ROV
Demo Days presented by four area school districts and SUNY Oswego at the 2015
Great New York State Fair.
The 10am to 4pm demonstrations are part of The
Lakes of NY: Over, Under, On and Through, 21st Century Technologies Exhibit coordinated by NY Sea Grant
with components on land and in the reflecting pool at the Mini NY State Park at
the 2015 Fair.
Middle
school, high school and college students have built ROVs: remotely operated
vehicles, and will demonstrate them in the reflecting pool of the mini-NY State
Park at the Fair as follows:
. Monday, August 31: Vernon-Verona-Sherrill
Central School
. Tuesday,
September 1: Chittenango Central School
. Wednesday, September 2: Cicero-North
Syracuse Central School
. Friday, September 4: Central Square Central
School
. Saturday, September 5: State University of
New York at Oswego.
The
students are using SeaPerch ROV kits developed in partnership with the Office
of Naval Research, which coordinates the science and technology programs of the
U.S Navy and Marine Corps. Science, technology, engineering and math educators
and robotics classes nationwide used the kits as educational tools.
The
students will maneuver the ROVs to locate underwater artifacts and artificial
renderings of aquatic invasive species in the pool. Images will be transmitted
to a large viewing screen in the exhibit tent.
‘These
ROV Demo Days provide Fair visitors a closeup look at technology and its
practical application for understanding the unique water resources of New York
State,’ said New York Sea Grant Coastal Recreation and Tourism Specialist Dave
White, associate director of the Great Lakes Research Consortium, and
coordinator of the Lakes of NY Exhibit.
Other
components of the Lakes of NY exhibit include the 2015 Discover Clean and Safe
Boating educational vessel, a Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC)
weather-sensing buoy, and information on aerial drones being used for aquatic
invasive species research in Western NY. To see real-time data on the air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation index from the GLRC
buoy, go to www.esf.edu/shipwreck. For more information on NY Sea Grant projects, visit www.nyseagrant.org.
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