Abstract
Underwater robot competitions provide students with the opportunity to voluntarily learn engineering knowledge and skills. It is expected that students will be interested in the marine engineering and manufacturing by participating in such underwater robot competitions, and that interest will lead to motivation for university learning. In this study, we will conduct extracurricular activities for 8 students for about half a year with the aim of participating in underwater robot competitions, and evaluate their educational effectiveness. In the evaluation, changes in interest in the marine engineering and manufacturing were evaluated by questionnaire. In addition, changes in learning motivation were evaluated from the university GPA from 2018 to 2020. As a result, it was confirmed that the participating students were interested in the marine engineering and manufacturing through extracurricular activities and maintained high learning motivation.
