In the summer of 2023, a shared interest in data science and a keen eye for aquatic monitoring in PEI brought four Charlottetown Rural High School students—Mark Seemann, Nout Guerts, Hamza Daqqa, and Parham Shahir—together to work on a project with UPEI's School of Applied Climate Change and Adaptation and its ClimateSense education program.

The team designed, built, and tested a solar-powered, eco-friendly buoy to collect oceanic data, working with technicians and instructors of UPEI's Applied Climate Change and Adaptation program.

Watch the video to learn more about their collaboration, the positive connections they made, and what it was like to work with UPEI's School of Applied Climate Change and Adaptation.