Joint effort with Friends of the Earth Canada to support the Great Canadian Bumble Bee Count
Dinah Shi, John Salaveria and Luisa San Martin won first prize at the 2018 Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium for their bumble bee tracking app.
In
close
collaboration
with
environmental
non-profit
Friends
of
the Earth
Canada
to
support
the
Great
Canadian
Bumble
Bee
Count,
the
team
of
software
engineering
students developed
an
app
to
help Canadians
track
bumble
bee
populations.
The Great Canadian Bumble Bee Count aims to raise awareness about the importance and conservation of Canada’s species of bumble bees. Bumble bees are crucial pollinators that are particularly effective at pollinating wildflowers, fruits and vegetables, but their populations are unfortunately declining.
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