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Sink or Swim

December 6, 2017

Sixth-graders from Morse Pond Middle School in Falmouth, Mass., test a remotely operated vehicle they built in a test tank in WHOI’s Smith Laboratory. It was part of a summer educational program led by WHOI scientist Anna Michel called the Girls in Ocean Engineering and Science (GOES) Institute. With funding from a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation, Michel brings middle school girls to WHOI each summer to spend a week exploring ocean science and engineering. The program helps promote diversity in the field of engineering and helps educate and inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)