Won the Yoshikazu Sasaki Award at the 14th High School and Technical College Weather Instrument Contest

AquaWiz's low-cost underwater observation system, an autonomous profiling float, won the Yoshikazu Sasaki Award at the 14th High School and Technical College Weather Instrument Contest.

In lakes and coastal waters, tracking environmental change calls for continuous observation — but the cost of equipment is often what stands in the way. We built this system with exactly those sites in mind. Alongside water temperature and pressure readings at each depth, it can capture underwater video, and we paid close attention to keeping the full workflow — from deployment through recovery — manageable.

Through repeated prototyping and field trials, we have steadily refined the pressure-resistant housing, the reliability of the data acquisition path, and the everyday usability of operation. This award reflects that accumulated work.