West Ashley High student Christian Bohn shouted words of encouragement as his classmate James Williams guided an underwater robot ”” weighted down with a wobbly peg ”” across a slotted box at the bottom of the pool.
“You got it, you got it!” Bohn exclaimed, as Williams plopped the peg into a tiny hole.
The West Ashley seniors were among more than 50 middle and high school students from six Charleston and Dorchester county schools who competed Thursday in the Charleston Regional SeaPerch Competition at Danny Jones Pool in North Charleston. Students battled it out for a chance to compete in the 2015 SeaPerch National Challenge in May at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.