WABI speaks with student about mini-boat test
WABI (Channel 5) spoke with Hattie Train, president of the Marine Sciences Club at the University of Maine, about a mini-boat test at UMaine on Feb. 27. Students from Bangor-based United Technologies Center tested the 5-foot-long boat, the first of several they are building as part of the Mini-Boat Research Collaboration, an effort to provide hands-on STEM learning, WABI reported. “With this project they’ve expanded it a little bit to be a larger boat and to have a remote-control setting where they’re trying to be able to steer the boat,” Train said. “And we’ve even discussed putting in sensors that might be able to measure different oceanographic data.” The boats eventually will be launched from locations around the world, according to WABI.