About Us

Team MATE won the first-ever "ROV Challenge," an event sponsored by the Discovery Channel and hosted by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) and Texas A&M's Offshore Technology Research Center. We defeated the U.S. Navy's NR-1 sub crew, the Naval Postgraduate School, the INA, and the University of South Florida's Center for Ocean Technology. It was amazing!!!

Team MATE consisted of students and instructors from Pacific Grove Middle School, Santa Catalina School, Pacific Grove High School, Monterey Peninsula College, California State University Monterey Bay, University of California Santa Cruz, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, and the Naval Postgraduate School who teamed up via the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center and the MPC Robotics Club to design and build the winning ROV.