Maryland Day 2009

Last Saturday Robotics @ Maryland (R@M) participated in Maryland Day 2009, a University of Maryland event where the public comes explores everything the university has to offer. R@M had our robots on display through out the day at the Electrical & Computer Engineering booth and Tortuga 2 was available for the public to drive at the Space Systems Lab's Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility (NBRF). Tortuga 2 was in the water from 10AM to 4PM with only a two our break.

In the above picture you can see R@M members prepping Tortuga 2 for its second dive of the day as members of the public watch. That scene was typical of the whole day, and we had dozens of kids and adults try Tortuga 2 around the NBRF.