BUTTERFLY TECH

BUTTERFLY TECH

Use the sliding gallery on the right to view our project’s process throughout the semester. Claire and Destiny (biology), Christopher and Parker (physics), Nate and Cannan (industrial design) and Saskia (writing, rhetoric and communication) were thrilled to...
A Guide to The American Black Bear

A Guide to The American Black Bear

We are partnered with David Kocka of Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) to create a new way to monitor mother bear behaviors. Our team’s main goal is to minimize the time the VDGIF researchers spend locating the bears. The current collars use...
What the Tech?

What the Tech?

Initial Approach The initial direction for animal tracking was to utilize a drone to detect ultra high frequencies to determine the general location of bears previously collared by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Our original designed drones were...