Tulsa, OK -
Teachers are getting a valuable lesson from underwater robots.
Instructors from the US Naval Academy visited the University of Tulsa today to help Tulsa area teachers build the robots.
The program is called SeaPerch, and the goal is to improve teachers' and students' creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
The teachers will then pass along the knowledge to their classrooms.
In January, there will be a SeaPerch challenge, where area students and teachers will come together to compete and share their knowledge.
Peter LoPresti is on TU's faculty, and says, "These things can be taken and played with and made to do more, and to apply the math and science they're learning; so it's not just a bunch of numbers."
More than 30-thousand students ranging from 5th grade to college have done a SeaPerch build.
Today's workshop was the first of its kind in Oklahoma.
