Elena Christian Junior High 8th Graders Nab St. Croix District Seaperch Contest

ST. CROIX -- Elena Christian Jr. High (ECJH) 8th graders Arianna Edgar, Ajani Rosario and Louis Soto, along with their coaches Nubaltha Martinez and Nelson Verdon spent about a week meticulously measuring, cutting and connecting PVC pipes, before soldiering wires onto a control on the apparatus to create their winning SeaPerch Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) for the challenge on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at the Country Day Good Hope School swimming pool. “We had a short time to prepare it and so we had to rush but we got it all ready in time for the challenge,” Ms. Martinez said of the students’ underwater robot. “During the competition the students were given five minutes to control the vehicle remotely to move objects beneath the pool and they did it in about two (2) minutes and 11 seconds.” Now the ECJH Shock Waves team is qualified to compete in the International SeaPerch Challenge June 1-3, 2018 at the MacLean Campus Center of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in North Dartm...