Kell students building oil cleanup machine

The Associated Press

Members of Kell High School's robotics team are using a $10,000 grant to build a machine that could aid in the cleanup of oil spills.

Carlie Schulter, a junior at the Cobb County school and program manager for the group called InvenTeam, explains that the robotics team had already built a remotely operated vehicle to pick up trash in bodies of water.

Schulter says that while the team was improving the vehicle, the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill occurred. About that time, the robotics team got a $10,000 grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program to form InvenTeam.

The students were chosen as one of 14 teams nationally taking part in the program. They will present the robot this summer at Eureka Fest at MIT's Cambridge, Mass., campus.

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Information from: Marietta Daily Journal, http://mdjonline.com/