Killick is now completed! We are thrilled to have our new vehicle testing and running in the water. As this semester is ending, we are entering the summer ready and excited!

This past Saturday, April 14, CUAUV, in collaboration with CUAIR, hosted a fun event for the boy scouts. The boy scouts were split into groups with two extra members from CUAUV to help them build underwater robots from kit boxes from SeaPerch. The scouts were given a hands-on experience in building the robots which included soldering, cutting parts and using epoxy to seal the parts. The finished robots were then tested in a small pool.

The event turned out very successful! We'd like to make the Boy Scouts Workshop our annual event.

Special thank-you goes to CUAIR for their support.

CUAUV hosted participants of Cornell Days in our lab. We completed our event with a powered boat activity. The participants are visiting high school students who have already been accepted to Cornell. We want to wish them best wishes in this exciting time!

On April 4th, CUAUV participated in Cornell's annual event BOOM (Bits on Our Minds) to put our vehicle on display and present about the team. BOOM is Cornell's annual showcase of digital technologies and their applications by students. Visitors are treated to live demos of the vehicle’s camera recognition ability and videos of the vehicle running underwater. Team members were also present to answers questions about the vehicle and the team. The hard work put up by the team did not go unnoticed as CUAUV won not one but two awards! The awards were the Google Award and the People’s Choice Award.

The first batch of parts are back from annodization, so we are able to start putting all the pieces together for Killick, our 2011-2012 competition vehicle. This is a very exciting process for the team to see our year-long effort taking shape. We are currently waiting for the second batch of parts to come back so we can all continue building Killick.

The image below is our current progress!

On Saturday, March 10, 2012, CUAUV collaborated with SWE to host the Girl Scout Workshop. The girl scouts went through a series of activities at different stations including the water tricks, lab tour, newspaper bridge building and kaleidoscope making stations to earn their badges (and have fun doing so). Parents of the scouts got a chance to talk to a panel of members of CUAUV and SWE about the different kinds of engineering and what engineering is in general. The event was very successful.

Special thank-you goes to SWE and Turner for their support.

On March 3, 2012, CUAUV gave a tour of the lab and presented about the team and vehicle to a group of high school students as part of the SWE-coordinated TSA Teams engineering competition. The students were very interested in learning about how our vehicle works.

Last Saturday, CUAUV gave a presentation at the Ithaca Sciencenter. The presentation turned out very well; we talked about the team and the vehicle as well as give demos of what the vehicle can do such as shoot torpedos. The demos really got the children excited. We are happy to be part of a great event and hope to participate again in the next semester.