RE CS students invent shark data app
When RE computer science students realized last December that shark researchers at Miami's Field School were using pen, paper and clipboards for data intake while on tagging sharks, they got to work. By May, the students had unveiled a user friendly Shark Data Recorder App to automate the data collection process that the shark researchers immediately implemented.
Under computer science teacher Eric Lefebvre, the students created an app for Android tablets that allows for quick, easy, accurate and standardized data entry and storage. The app may also prove useful to fellow RE students, as members of the school's Marine Field Research class under Kristine Stump participate in shark-tagging trips as a part of their bay-based curriculum.
"I'm very proud of the work these students have done," Lefebvre said as students demonstrated the app's functionality during a virtual conference with STEM Department Chair Doug Heller, RE's new Chief Technology Officer Linda Lawrence and Associate Head of School John A. King, Jr. "This is their project and their presentation and they did a fantastic job."
The Shark Data Recorder App project design team included Daniel Goldstein '20, David Civantos '20, Diego Virtue '20, Morgan Hawkins '20, Bruce Jagid '21, Isa Camacho '22 and Ryan Ellison '20.
The app will also be made available on the Google Play Store.
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"I'm very proud of the work these students have done," Lefebvre said as students demonstrated the app's functionality during a virtual conference with STEM Department Chair Doug Heller, RE's new Chief Technology Officer Linda Lawrence and Associate Head of School John A. King, Jr. "This is their project and their presentation and they did a fantastic job."
The Shark Data Recorder App project design team included Daniel Goldstein '20, David Civantos '20, Diego Virtue '20, Morgan Hawkins '20, Bruce Jagid '21, Isa Camacho '22 and Ryan Ellison '20.
The app will also be made available on the Google Play Store.
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