UPEI students design weather and water monitoring buoy for class project

19-04-2025

Students at UPEI's Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering have held a design expo to showcase projects they have been working on for the entire school year. CBC's Jane Robertson stopped by recently to check out one project named Sabrina, that resulted in a buoy to be used in the oyster industry to monitor water and weather conditions.

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