Students from MAST @ FIU BBC, a public high school that’s part of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools and housed at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus, with the support of FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, spent Wednesday morning building coqui sensors that they will use for their upcoming King Tide Day events on Alton Road in Miami Beach on Oct. 9.

“This is a great and new experience,”said Noe Ley, a 10th grader at MAST @ FIU. “It really impressed me how a little breadboard could have as many abilities and different functions.”

More training is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 2 when students will construct and test water sensors in campus access to the Biscayne Bay and in nearby ponds with plans to use them to examine salinity in potential flood waters on Miami Beach during King Tide Day.

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More than 220 people (190 high school students from MAST @ FIU) showed up for a sea level rise rally at FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus on Sept. 29 to launch an Oct. 9 effort to take high school and college students to Miami Beach to measure possible flood waters. In addition to the rally, students[…]

Eyes on the Rise team member, Robert Gutsche, Jr. spoke about the project at the Online News Association conference in Chicago on Sept. 26. Watch the panel here. ONA organized the Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education, which supports this student and community project surrounding journalism about sea level rise in South Florida.

Eyesontherise.org team members Juliet Pinto and Kate MacMillin received the Best Short Documentary award at the DocMiami ceremony Sept. 13 for their work that has led to great public discourse related to sea level rise in South Florida. Watch South Florida’s Rising Seas here!