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From the moment Quinn Stanley could tinker with toys, they were drawn to problem-solving. It wasn鈥檛 long before those around them noticed, too. 鈥淓verybody kind of knew I was going to be an engineer from when I was like five. So this has kind of always been what I wanted to do,鈥� says Quinn.

A team of 麻豆传媒 student researchers recently won a prestigious global ocean engineering challenge by tackling one of the fundamental problems in polar research: how to collect vital ocean data from sensors deployed beneath huge ice sheets.

鈥淔undamentally in STEM, you need the voices of everyone,鈥� Dr. Pemberton Cyrus once said. 鈥淎nd if you have a diverse group working, you鈥檒l actually get better answers.鈥�

Sarty, who lives in Halifax and works remotely for California-based Mosaic, did her graduate work in Industrial Engineering working with a very different set of data 鈥� four years worth of information from the emergency department at Halifax鈥檚 IWK Health Centre.