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A Coral Competition
Problem: Coral is dying in the ocean. Coral is dying because of littering, oil spills, and global warming.
Problem: Coral is dying in the ocean. Coral is dying because of littering, oil spills, and global warming.
Solution: We will host a coral competition between schools to put coral back into the oceans. We will send schools the equipment. After an amount of time they will send it back to us, and we will judge it based on health, and weight. Then we will send the coral back into the ocean to help save populations.
Solution: We will host a coral competition between schools to put coral back into the oceans. We will send schools the equipment. After an amount of time they will send it back to us, and we will judge it based on health, and weight. Then we will send the coral back into the ocean to help save populations.
Who we talked to: Over the course of our project we have talked to over 16 different resources some including the St. Louis Aquarium, St. Louis Aquatics, and Marine Solutions. We have also presented our project to Independent teachers staff and parents of our school.
Cost : For schools to get a full tank and everything included it would cost about $600.
The video below is the introduction video that is provided for all teams to watch when they are being introduced to their coral.
What
Coral is a stationary ocean animal that normally lives in one place all its life. It provides food, shelter, and breeding grounds to tons of fish, crustacean, and mollusks.
Why
Coral supports over 500 million people and billions of aquatic animals and it is dying due to human activity. Around the world, oceans are in greater need of coral to support these exquisite ecosystems.
How
How
We will help spread awareness of the dangers to coral by putting tanks in different schools and having them care and grow their own coral over a school year. The creation and initial set up of the tank would cost about $600. After the class grows the coral for a year they send it back to us and we put it in the ocean to help coral populations grow.
What is Different
Our kit is already innovative because it comes with things specifically made for schools but we have one more thing to make it different. We use a RFID chip which stands for Radio Frequency Identification. It is commonly used to track packages or used in your credit card. A RFID chip is a small device that doesn't connect to a battery instead when it gets near a device that sends out certain signals it sends them back including the information stored on the chip.
How We Use It
Many small coral or coral frags come on a small rock stand or frag plugs. We put a RFID chip in ours and it allows the coral to store information like age and type. This can be helpful to scientist to track populations.
Our Outreach
Through our journey to set up our tank we have gotten many students involved from asking questions to helping set up the tank itself so we would like to share some of our photos and videos of our students.
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