The MATE Floats! Marine Technology Summer Workshop is an advanced, immersive, multi-day learning experience around float technology, sensors, and data science. Hosted by the University of Washington’s (UW) School of Oceanography, the goal of this five-day workshop to provide students with 1) the opportunity to learn about and experience marine technologies first-hand and 2) to develop and build upon the skills they will need for success in the technical workplace.
The target audience is two-year community and technical colleges students from across the U.S. Community and technical colleges serve diverse populations (where divers is broadly defined to include gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and geographic location); students at these institutions are less likely to have access to these opportunities, which makes programs like MATE Floats! critical to increasing and diversifying the potential pool of talent prepared to enter marine technical workforce.
This presentation will include an overview of the workshop. Student participants will also present information about their workshop experience, including their a shipboard experience on the UW’s R/V Rachel Carson, skills gained, and the data science project completed during the workshop.
MATE Floats! is funded by two National Science Foundation-funded projects; the National Center of Autonomous Technologies and the Global Ocean Biogeochemistry (float) Array (the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is the lead on the GO-BGC project). MATE Floats! is one of several summer workshop opportunities presented by the Marine Technology Society.
