Photo By Brooke Marquardt | Members of the Dover Area High School team from Pennsylvania (from left) Caleb...... read more read more
This Dover Area High School team of engineer wannabes has competed in events like Punkin Chunkin, a pumpkin-throwing contest, and Battle of the Rockets, but this is their first time at the International Human-Powered Submarine Races at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland. Dover Area High School is in Dover, Pennsylvania, just under three hours away from the basin.
When they realized they wanted to enter the races, they had just under a year to register and build a submarine. All of the team members are now recently graduated, with the exception of one. A few of them boasted about how their interest is not particularly in submarines, but in any competition where they can show off their love for engineering.
Their submarine, the Cormorant, is made up of four layers of fiberglass and riveted together with aluminum bands. The drive train was created almost completely of repurposed bicycle parts. This team used the gears, gearshift, the pedals and the rear-sprocket.
“We tried to keep it as simple as possible,” said Jakub Becker, a recently graduated team member and a pilot for the team. “Our biggest success has been that we haven’t had any big mechanical issues, our failure to race has mostly been pilot error, myself.”
“One of the things that many teams have been impressed with was that we made the propeller ourselves. We were able to mill out ours at our high school rather than outsourcing it,” said team member Caleb Hilbert. “Meeting other teams and being around other people so passionate about engineering has been the best part for us. We’ve been able to solve some of our problems by seeing how other teams solved theirs.”
| Date Taken: | 06.27.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 06.27.2019 17:14 |
| Story ID: | 329513 |
| Location: | WEST BETHESDA, MARYLAND, US |
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