Robots + Marine Biology + FFHS Students = the Future!
 First Flight High School Team wins first place at the Mid Atlantic Regional ROV competition!
They have advanced to the international competition, this year held in Hawaii, to compete against teams from all over the world!
Please visit FirstFlightROV.com to find out more and to make a donation OF ANY AMOUNT to help the team travel to Hawaii and represent Dare County at the international competition.
Visit the FirstFlightROV website.
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We need the right person with a love of robots, engineering, marine biology and the future to see the opportunity we have and help us acheive our goal.
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What's an ROV?
It's a Remotely Operated Vehicle.They're used by Marine Biologists all around the world to go places people cannot safely go to perform studies and tasks in harsh underwater environments.
"To me, ROVs serve as the best tool for exploration of our oceans, and currently the best tool we have for solving ecological disasters like we have in the Gulf right now."
- Andrew Thomas,
Team Mentor & FFHS Science Teacher
Why Hawaii?
This years competition is focused on the Loihi Seamount, an active undersea volcano that will eventually become the newest Hawaiian island. There have been several attempts to place monitoring equipment at the site but due to the dynamic nature of the location the communication lines have been severed several times.
This years mission is centered around restoring the monitoring equipment and to collect new data and specimens while on the site.
The Wright Brothers took the Outer Banks to new heights - these kids can bring us to new depths! But they need our help.
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