ROV MATE is an International competition run by the Marine Advanced Technology Education centre in California, USA. It is an ROV competition designed to give school pupils an opportunity to work on industry standard tasks, designing, building and flying an ROV. The team from Mintlaw Academy have been the winners of the Scottish heat the last two years. This heat is held at Robert Gordon University and is sponsored BP and Subsea UK.   Mintlaw Academy have finished 13th in the world the last two years and continue to develop their knowledge of the Sub sea industry.