Welcome to the online course for the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge, a part of MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute. This online course is one of the prerequisites to apply for the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge in the summer. In the 4-week summer course, students will learn how to program an underwater vehicle to autonomously navigate an obstacle course using buoys as navigational aids. The  online curriculum presented here is designed to prepare students for the 4-week summer course. It will contain most of the foundational concepts that will be built upon during the intensive summer session in July.