2018 was my first year on my school's MATE underwater robotics team. The competition (MATE New England Regional ROV Competition) took place at Sandwich High School Massachusetts. The competition was split into 3 different set of challenges. All of the rules and regulations can be found in the link above. I was the lead CAD designer, as well as an active worker in the construction of our ROV. The ROV design we decided to go with had a lot of custom made parts which I designed and 3d printed. Due to the rigidness of the frame, the wires and cables would get tangled and at worst, short circuit. To prevent this from happening, I designed a little control panel to organize the thruster controls and to sort the cables going from the thrusters. One of the missions involved a mini sub which would be driven into a narrow tube underwater to inspect indicators of possible "dam danger." Our entire mini sub was designed and 3d printed, and we were the only team at the competition to have a working mini ROV. On the day of the competition, our ROV was working flawlessly, at least out of the water. Unfortunately, minuets after deploying our ROV into the dam(pool) water leaked inside into the main control panel and we immediately shut all systems off. This happened on both of our attempts, yet we still managed to scavenge third place for the competition with only a few minuets of the ROV actually running.