Presentation Expectations
This is a list of suggestions to guide your team in the Engineering Journal aspect of the SeaPerch Competition. Students will have 15 minutes with the judges. This time includes the time it takes students to set up their poster board and to answer questions.
- Ask students to dress well, but do not ask them to purchase new clothes for this event. For example: Button up shirts, ties, slacks, nice blouses, dresses. (dress clothes can be removed for piloting the obstacle course)
- Introduce yourselves and shake hands with the judge. Teams should state: team name, campus name, individual team members names, role on the team, middle school or high school division, and show judge information on the board.
- Students should be able to describe the purpose of their ROV and show judge the information in the engineering journal.
- Students should be able to describe the build process of the ROV and show judge the information in the engineering journal.
- Students should be able to describe changes they made to the floats to achieve neutral buoyancy.
- Students should be able to describe any modifications they made to the ROV and show pictures of the adjustment in the engineering journal.
- Students should be able to describe how they tested the modifications to show that the modification improved the performance of the ROV.
- Students should include and be able to describe any modifications they attempted that did not improve the performance of the ROV.