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All Donations go to funding our team! We are currently focused on raising money for our trip to the University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) for the 2025 International SeaPerch Competition (May 31-June 1, 2025). 

Your Donations are greatly appreciated!

Current Total Amount Raised:     $5,429 

Your donation will help the ECH Science Teams compete, and continue STEM outreach activities aimed at elementary and middle school students.

        ECH Science is not affiliated with any school and depends on community support for its outreach and competitive activities. The original ECH-Science team is pursuing the 2025 International SeaPerch Competition held at the University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) from May 31-June 1, 2025. This year the team plans on competing in the open class division, meaning on top of travel expenses, more resources are needed to upgrade their ROV system for this more competitive class. The new team, the Stingrays, is striving to compete at the 2025 Regional Competition in Cheney, WA.

       These all girls teams are working hard to build Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and to spread a love of STEM in their community. The original team has been rebuilding in 2024 to teach and train 3 new members.  The new team will follow the founding team's footsteps to inspire elementary and middle school students to learn the benefits of STEM activities.

       Both teams follow an integrated STEM education program. It's a great way to start on a challenging journey to build a robot, learn leadership and problem-solving skills, and how to use the robot in the marine world.  Along the way, students learn basic electrical and mechanical engineering skills and apply them to meet real-world requirements. Each team will continue outreach activities to engage and work with elementary and middle school students and parents to show that hands-on STEM activities are a fun and valuable experience!  This was recently demonstrated at the local community college's ROV summer camp program inspired by ECH Science.