Student Perspective
Each student has an individual experience…
But they all have one thing in common—their experience in Bar Harbor has forever altered their perspectives of themselves and the world they live in. Whether sharing details of their immersive experience, or a key takeaway, all have been impacted in some way.
Angela Calvi
Angela Calvi
Hannah Jauris
Hannah Jauris
Elizabeth Quevillon
Elizabeth Quevillon
Daniel Wivagg
Daniel Wivagg
Jessica D’Agostino
Jessica D’Agostino
Matthew Lund
Matthew Lund
Being a scientist while everyone else was an engineer is really interesting because you experience the different ways everyone thinks.
- Jesse Gaulin
- Computer Science
In Bar Harbor, it was amazing to just sit by the ocean, being part of nature and just enjoying the beauty of life itself.
- Mingqi Shuai
- Mechanical Engineering
The best part of the IQP experience for me has been learning how other people go about solving problems and that you need to consider solutions from a lot of different angles.
- Michael Morisseau
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
My biggest personal takeaway was learning something new about the negative effects of light pollution.
- Karl Rosenfeld
- Interactive Media and Game Development
The collaborative approach to the IQP really helps with getting to know peoples’ strengths and weaknesses to work most effectively in a team.
- Eric Cosmopulos
- Management Engineering
I was surprised by how much the human element came into play with my IQP. A lot of the research that we ended up doing was about the way that people would react to our proposed solution.
- Zane Weissman
- Electrical and Computer Science
It was interesting to learn the importance of designing things that people will actually want to use rather than something that simply meets the technical needs of the problem.
- Daniel Farnitano
- Mechanical Engineering
Having gone to the Bar Harbor Project Center, it’s definitely reconfirmed my desire to live in an environment such as Bar Harbor in the future.
- Nicholas Lapierre
- Architectural Engineering