1. USING UNDERWATER ROBOTS TO BUILD YOUR
STEM PIPELINE
Delve into using underwater
robots to engage students
with hands-on problem-
solving activities. Lessons will
incorporate Common Core,
science, and engineering.

2. Presenters
Diana CostM.Ed. NSF Master Teacher Fellow (Global
Learning Charter Public School: New Bedford, MA);
Keith Bradley (Somerset Middle School: Somerset,
MA);
Meghan Abella-Bowen (Bristol Community College:
Fall River, MA);
Darlease Monteiro (Global Learning Charter Public
School: New Bedford, MA)

3. BACKGROUND
GLCPS
Urban secondary school in New Bedford,
Massachusetts.
Title I school with over 74% of the student
population on free and reduced lunch.
Historically, only 60% of students graduating
from New Bedford move on to postsecondary
education
Goal increase interest in STEAM (science,
technology, engineering, arts, and math) fields.

4. HYPOTHESIS
Incorporation of engineering-based learning
(EBL) using underwater robotics will increase
student interest in reading, researching,
writing, and exploring science and engineering.

5. • K-12 teachers to create relevant real
world application of curriculum for
student centered learning
1
• EBL encourages and promotes
participation, organization,
communication, and group ethics to
design
2
• EDP is a structured, eight-step,
systematic, open-ended process that
allows students to explore, within each
step of the design process
3
WHAT IS ENGINEERING-BASED
LEARNING MODEL?

6. Learning Objectives
Technology
Procedure
Policies
Benefits

7. New Steam Courses
The Goal to Increase Student Interest
STEAM
PLANS
1 yr 2 yr 3 yr

8. Using Problem Based Engineering
to Learn EDP

9. Time Spent
ProjectsWorkedOn
Introduce
Problem
Create
Interest
Working Toward Steam
Use EDP

10. Case Study
 Student Interest
 Disengaged
 No Interest in STEM
 The Change overheard
 “I wish I was still in that
engineering course. It was
so much fun and I really
felt like I was doing real
stuff. We got to decide
what to build and how it
would look. It was great!”