Georgia Students Building Oil Cleanup Machine

MARIETTA, Georgia – Members of Kell High School’s robotics team
are using a $10,000 grant to build a machine that could aid in the
cleanup of oil spills.

Carlie Schulter, a junior at the Cobb County school and program
manager for the group called InvenTeam, explains that the robotics
team had already built a remotely operated vehicle to pick up trash
in bodies of water.

Schulter says that while the team was improving the vehicle, the
massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill occurred. About that time, the
robotics team got a $10,000 grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to
form InvenTeam.

The students were chosen as one of 14 teams nationally taking
part in the program. They will present the robot this summer at
Eureka Fest at MIT’s Cambridge, Mass., campus.