FAU’s Human-Powered Submarine Team will host a presentation and slideshow on the 10th International Submarine Race that was held at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Carderock , Maryland, over the summer. The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 26, at 10 a.m. in the Carole and Barry Kaye Auditorium in the Student Union on the Boca Raton campus.

Engineering students George Valdes and Joe Alderton, the FAU-Boat co-captains, will lead the presentation. Dr. Edgar An, professor of ocean engineering, and the student team members — Shawn Wilt, Skyler Bryan, Jason McCullough, Danielle Kolber, Charlotte George and Everett Jones — will answer questions.

The FAU team placed first for speed and second overall in the competition. The 21 teams in the race included representatives of Texas A&M University, Virginia Tech, the University of Maine, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington and the University Michigan, as well as teams from Canada, England, Venezuela and private sponsors. The International Submarine Races were launched in 1989 by FAU’s Department of Ocean Engineering off the coast of Riviera Beach. Later, the competition was moved to the Maryland site.

For more information on the presentation, contact Dr. Edgar An at 561-297-2792 or Joe Alderton at 561-459-6478.

Click here to see the UP‘s coverage of the human-powered submarine team.