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High schoolers compete in all things engineering, including submarine races
June 28, 2019 — This Dover Area High School team of engineer wannabes has competed in events like Punkin Chunkin, a pumpkin-throwing contest, and Battle of the Rockets, but this is their first time at the International Human-Powered Submarine Races at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland. Dover Area High School is in Dover,... MORE

Dover Area High School team from Pennsylvania (from left) Caleb Helbert, Tyler Sengia, Braden Hilbert, Jakub Becker and Skyler Sinclair pose around their submarine, the Cormorant, at the 15th International Submarine Races at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Md., on June 25, 2019.

Maryland lieutenant governor visits the submarine races at Carderock
June 28, 2019 — Maryland Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford spent a good amount of time talking to students from the Maryland area during his visit to the 15th International Human-Powered Submarine Races in West Bethesda, Maryland, on June 26. Although he has been to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division before, this was his first time seeing the science,... MORE

West Bethesda, MD: Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division Commanding Officer Capt. Cedric McNeal, ISR lead Charles Behrle, and STEM Director Charlotte George gave Maryland Lt. Govenor Boyd Rutherford a tour of the David Taylor Model Basin and ISR participants, June. 26

History and future on display at Carderock during sub races
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- This week’s 15th International Human Submarine Races (ISR), held at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, has welcomed teams from all over the world, and here to remind them “where the fleet began” is the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC).Featured at NHHC’s table were posters and displays all detailing... MORE

Eric Ritter, Naval History and Heritage Command

Inside the Chinook II, a University of Victoria human-powered submarine
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- Jaryd Middleton, pilot and president of Canada’s University of Victoria’s Submarine Racing Club from British Columbia, Canada, was once a part of a submarine team populated with senior students when he was just entering college. Many of them have now graduated, ushering in a new era of young science, technology,... MORE

University of Victoria Submarine Racing Club team members

Meet the Team – Texas A&M University
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- Nearly 100 years ago, the story of the Texas A&M University’s “12th Man” was born. The long-respected tradition for college sports fans across the nation is a way of life in College Station, Texas, that has made its way to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland.Texas A&M returns to... MORE

Members of Texas A&M University’s submarine team work on 12th Manatee

Kids into Discovering Science bring a taste of Maryland to Carderock
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- The Kids into Discovering Science (KIDS) team from Accokeek, Maryland, is handing out packets of Old Bay Seasoning to anyone who stopped to take a picture in their photo booth at the 15th International Human-Powered Submarine Races at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland. The... MORE

Team members from the Kids into Discovering Science program in Maryland pose with their handmade props for the photo booth under their tent at the 15th International Human-Powered Submarine Races on June 25, 2019.

Carderock engineer’s daughter races for Virginia Tech
June 27, 2019 — WEST BETHESDA, Maryland -- Dads sometimes leave work a little early to go watch their children compete in a race, but in David Heller’s case, the race came to him. His daughter, Clara Hellersund, is a support diver for the Virginia Tech team, which has two submarines entered in the International Human-Powered Submarine Races happening at Naval... MORE

Clara Hellersund (right), a junior at Virginia Tech and a support diver for the school’s submarine racing team, prepares to be lowered into the water with the team’s submarine Phantom 8 into the David Taylor Model Basin in West Bethesda, Md., on June 25

NAVSEA ship experts say history should inform the future in naval shipbuilding expansion
June 18, 2019 — Lessons learned from history helped focus the nation’s shipbuilding efforts moving into World War II and beyond, according to Dr. Norbert Doerry and Dr. Philip Koenig, both from Naval Sea Systems Command. The two men were the June speakers for the monthly Rear Adm. David Taylor Naval Architecture Lecture Series at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, in West Bethesda, Maryland, on June 13... MORE

USS Fletcher (DD 445) maneuvering off New York on July 18, 1942. (Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives)

First Einstein Fellow in DOD to be placed at Carderock
June 13, 2019 — Debbie Reynolds, a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educator in the Baldwin-Whitehall School District of Pittsburgh, has been selected to come to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, as part of the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship (AEF) Program... MORE

Debbie Reynolds, a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educator from Pittsburgh, will be coming to Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in September as part of the 2019-2020 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship (AEF) Program. (Photo provided)

Carderock employees earn Navy awards for test and evaluation
June 11, 2019 — Two Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division employees were recognized on May 29 at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., when they were presented the Department of the Navy’s Test and Evaluation (T&E) Awards. ... MORE

Vice Adm. Thomas Moore (right), commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, deputy commander for Ship Design, Integration and Engineering, present Timothy Cullis, an electrical engineer in Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division’s Signatures Monitoring and Surface Ships Programs Branch, the Department of Navy Small Program Outstanding Tester Award during a ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard on May 29, 2019. (U.S. Navy photo by Laura Lakeway/Released)

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