Booyah

Brien McMahon High School, Norwalk, Connecticut USA

Updates:

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  • About Us

    We are sophomores at Brien McMahon High School (BMHS) in Norwalk, Connecticut. We have experience building an ROV with our teacher Mr. LiPrad, and now are building our own miniboat, Booyah. We named our boat Booyah because we liked how it sounds like ‘buoy’. Our boat is painted red, which is different from our sister-ship M/B The Killer Whale, made from a different group. We hope our miniboat goes all over the world.

  • May 2026: M/V Bermuda Islander Deploys Our Miniboats!

    On May 18th, we took a field trip down to the The Bermuda International Shipping Company in Salem, New Jersey to tour the M/V Bermuda Islander. This is the cargo ship who will be deploying our miniboats! Our team’s boat, Booyah (red), is pictured on the right with our sister boat, The Killer Whale (black and white), on the left.

    The next day on May 19, the two miniboats were launched together on the east side of the Gulf Stream. Thank you to the captain and crew of Bermuda Islander (BI) for setting another adventure out to sea for us all. This double launch marks BI‘s 19th and 20th miniboat deployment for Educational Passages, officially marking them the vessel with the most miniboat deployments of any other! Read more about all 20 deployments in our blog post: “Miniboats Launched by the M/V Bermuda Islander.”

    Sensor Data

    The boat has two tracking systems: 1. The main GPS reports to the map above, and 2. A student-installed secondary GPS tracks location, air and water temperature, orientation, and even has a camera, with the map below showing only the last 7 days of sensor data. Contact us for more information or access to the full dataset.


    Her onboard camera caught her first day at sea:

    Stay tuned for more updates!

  • June 2026 - At Sea Update

    On June 16, 2026 Booyah got incredibly close to multiple different miniboats in the Atlantic, but decided to veer north forging its own journey. Considering where each of these miniboats were launched from and the very different paths they have traveled, this was a unique glimpse at our active vessels at sea.

  • July & August - At Sea Updates

    Since June 16, where many miniboats “met-up” with one another, Booyah has continued to travel North East further out into the North Atlantic. The pin marked with a star represents her location as of August 24, 2026.

    Stay tuned for more updates!