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Mountain Drone Team Wins Tech Hub’s Student Grant

November 26, 2018

Mountain Drone Team Wins Tech Hub’s Student Grant

MDT Tech Hub Student Grant Pitch

Congratulations to the Mountain Drone Team for winning at Tech Hub's annual Student Grant Pitch Night!

Forrest Schoessow, geography Ph.D. student at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, led the presentation for his team’s 3-D mountain-mapping project, which is aimed at using a drone to observe glacial retreat in Peru. The autonomous drone 3-D maps the glaciers and how they’re changing.

Read the full story in The Lantern.