MATE Pacific Northwest Regional Challenge

Date: May 9, 2009

Location: Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center
                Federal Way, WA
                USA

We're pleased to announce the results of the MATE Pacific Northwest Regional ROV Challenge held yesterday. We'll be sending the following teams to Massachusetts to compete in the International Competition: Ranger Class: APIA Submersible Team from South Whidbey High School, Langley, Washington Explorer Class: British Columbia Institute of Technology of Burnaby Canada, and Sea Tech 4H Club of Mt. Vernon, Washington. Competition yesterday very exciting and good with the defending champion, 'Ping! 7 MHz of adrenaline!' of Lincoln HS in Portland, taking 2nd Place, and Team Orca of Sea Tech 4H Club placing 3rd. Our Scout Class winner was the PT Crews HER Jr. team of Port Townsend, Washington whose youngest member was age 9. We look forward to putting on a 5th annual event in 2010. Thank you to all of our sponsors and volunteers. It was a great team effort.

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	2009 Contest Information To Register for the Pacific Northwest Regional Competion please follow this link. Registration Deadline is April 1, 2009. Directions and Information about the King County Aquatic Center
	2009 Teams RANGER Teams Corbett High School Corbett OR Hoquiam High School Hoquiam WA Lincoln High School Portland OR Meek ProTech High School Portland OR Olympic College ROV Team Bremerton WA SeaTech 4-H Club - Skagit Valley 4-H Mount Vernon WA SeaTech 4-H Club - Skagit Valley 4-H Mount Vernon WA SeaTech 4-H Club - Skagit Valley 4-H Mount Vernon WA South Whidbey High School Langley WA Troop 324 Shoreline WA SCOUT Teams Anacortes Group Anacortes WA Kunz Home School Port Townsend WA
	Workshops and Other Regional Events Workshop to be held Saturday Jan. 31, 2009 9am - 2pm. Please follow link for directions to UW Ocean Sciences Building (OSB) Rm. 425
	Sponsors Image Name & Description Marine Technology Society, Puget Sound Section The Puget Sound Section of the Marine Technology Society includes members from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska. MTS is a not-for-profit professional society of ocean engineers, technologists, policy makers, and educators.

For additional information, contact:

Rick Rupan
UW-Oceanography
Box 355351
Seattle, WA 98195-5351
Phone: 206-221-6728
Fax: 206-685-3354
Email: rupan@ocean.washington.edu

Fritz Stahr
UW-Oceanography
Box 355351
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 206-543-7886
Fax: 206-685-3354
Email: stahr@ocean.washington.edu