Sci Crew by Anthony Gordon Bennett

The nation's best high school science team celebrates graduation with a day of surfing. A brilliant idea starts them working on their final project, however, a freak storm carries them away. They land at a remote laboratory and get asked to join a billionaire scientist to join in an adventure that may help save the world.They travel from California to Brazil to Russia, plus one other seldom visited location. Poachers, a maniacal financier, and a rogue general stand in their way. Will science win out?