2025 Challenge
Environmental Monitoring: Coral Restoration
Coral reefs provide coastal protection for communities, habitat for fish, and millions of dollars in recreation and tourism, among other benefits. But corals are also severely threatened by rapidly worsening environmental conditions. Efforts to help corals recover include the following activities:
- Planting nursery-grown corals back onto reefs.
- Making sure habitat is suitable for natural coral growth, including the removal of invasive species.
- Building coral resilience to threats like climate change.
(Required)
Objective: Demonstrate the performance of your novel ROV design.
Submission Format: No pre-event submission.
Teams will complete pool course runs on-site, in-person at the 2025 International SeaPerch Challenge.
Overview: Navigate your SeaPerch ROV through an obstacle course and a mission course including a series of tasks. Score points for time and successful task completion.
The Obstacle Course tests high-speed maneuverability and requires the SeaPerch ROV to navigate the course as quickly as possible.
The Mission Course incorporates a mission related to Deep-Sea Exploration. The Deep-Sea Exploration Mission is a simulation of the tasks and environment that an ROV might encounter while exploring the harsh environments that surround hydrothermal vents.
(Required)
Objective: Communicate your intentional design process.
Submission Format: Technical design report.
Overview: Describe the intentional design process you completed for your SeaPerch ROV. This report should include all required sections in the instructions and provide judges with an understanding of your unique SeaPerch design and your team’s approach to developing this design. This report should focus on the SeaPerch ROV your team designed to compete in the 2025 SeaPerch pool courses.
(Required)
Objective: Introduce your team.
Submission Format: Digital upload.
Overview: Connecting with your community is important. We want to get to know you! Reach out and share your team or school’s logo, an overview of what your team is all about, and social media information so we can share it with the SeaPerch community. This is your chance to introduce us to your team and team’s personality.
(Required)
Objective: Present your work.
Submission Format: Send the presentation file before the event as required by the Regional Challenge Organizing Committee.
Teams will complete presentation on-site, in-person at the 2025 Regional SeaPerch Challenge.
Overview: Each team will be asked to present a pitching to a judging panel within 5 minutes, and the judges have 10 minutes for questions and evaluation. The team can use any software or hardware requirements to help them in the purpose of the pitching. The team may present in Arabic or English with no additional score.
(Optional)
Objective: Explore real-world applications for underwater ROVs.
Submission Format: Digital poster (PowerPoint Template).
Overview: Identify a real-world issue and design a SeaPerch to address the issue. Create a virtual poster to tell us all about your project. Poster submissions can include anything from a conceptual design to a full project that you completed in the real world.
(Optional)
Objective: Give back to the community!
Submission Format: Written statement (with photos and videos as applicable) submitted as a one-page PDF.
Overview: It’s time to give back. Whether you volunteer your time in your community or your team finds a way to connect and offer support online, we want to hear about it. No project is too big or small!
Note: This is not a scored component but will be reviewed for special awards.