The global MATE ROV Competition challenges K-12, community college, and university students from all over the world to design and build underwater robots (ROVs) to tackle missions modeled after scenarios from the ocean workplace. The competitions class structure of beginner, beginner-intermediate, intermediate, and advanced complements the education pipeline by providing students with the opportunity to build upon their skills and the application of those skills as they engineer increasingly more complex ROVs for increasingly more complex mission tasks.
The MATE competition requires students to think of themselves as entrepreneurs and transform their teams into companies that manufacture, market, and sell products. In addition to engineering their ROVs, the students are required to prepare technical reports, poster displays, and engineering presentations that are delivered to working professionals who serve as competition judges.
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