SOUTH PORTLAND (WGME) — Several students from across Maine are creating a robot to study the ocean as part of an international competition.
They’re the first team in the U.S. taking part.
STEM Coliseum in South Portland is hosting the students for the “Brilliant Blue Challenge.”
Their robot will be buoy-shaped and float in the ocean with solar panels and an emergency battery.
The goal is to collect data about the ocean, and even listen for distressed whales, then feed that data back to a computer via satellite.
The bigger goal is to protect the ocean through innovation.
Students taking part come from several towns, including Yarmouth, Sydney and York.
“We have a 7th-grader, and we have several 12th-graders,” Messalonskee High School senior Dylan Mills said. “And I just think it’s amazing that we can all cooperate on this one project and come up with similar ideas and just contradict each other but also in a way that makes us stronger.”
“When they find their people, they don’t leave, they’re happy, they’ve got someone to talk to that thinks like they do, then they realize that there’s so much more to learn,” STEM Coliseum Executive Director Clare Greenlaw said.
STEM Coliseum says the competition will come to a finish with a trip to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on October 25-26.
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