Virtual Event | June 4 – 5, 2021
The 2021 SeaPerch Season was unlike any we’ve had before. For the first time, there were opportunities for virtual participation and engagement with other teams. This season extended from the 2020 season, allowing teams to further develop their ideas focused on Waterway Cleanup.
The International SeaPerch Challenge: To find out more about the 2021 International SeaPerch Challenge virtual event, click here.
2021 SeaPerch Season By the Numbers
2021 SeaPerch Community
2021 SeaPerch Awards
Engineering Design Awards
Middle School – Final Standings | High School – Final Standings
For this event, teams were required to submit a technical design report that communicated their intentional design process and highlighted the ways that the team’s ROV or team approach was unique.
Middle School Class
1st Place: Kraken, Mayport Middle School
2nd Place: Leatherbacks, Mayport Middle School
3rd Place: Aqua Alphas, Hobsonville School
High School Class
1st Place: Waterway Wahoos, Fleming Island High School
2nd Place: Brave Robotics, Manalapan High School
3rd Place: Orca Whales, Wilmington Robotics Club
Team Interview Awards
Middle School – Final Standings | High School – Final Standings
For the first time ever, all competing teams were required to participate in a 15-minute live, virtual interview with a panel of judges. During the interview, teams were asked two questions that were selected at random from a list provided ahead of time. One question focused on the team’s engineering design, and the other focused on the team’s approach. After these questions were answered, judges had the opportunity to ask follow-on questions.
After the 40+ hours of interviews, these were the top teams:
Middle School Class
1st Place: ADHUS Kingfishers, A.D. Henderson University School
2nd Place: Neptune’s Knights, Southeast Delco School District
3rd Place: Haddonfield Naval Engineers, Haddonfield Middle School
High School Class
1st Place — It’s a two-way TIE!
– Orca Whales, Wilmington Robotics Club
– Axolotls, Georgetown High School
2nd Place: Patriot Stingrays, Patriot High School
3rd Place — It’s a three-way TIE!
– The Angry Ducks, Patriot High School
– Meka Sharccs, Troy High School NJROTC
– Fletcher Team A, Fletcher High School
Pool Courses Awards
Instead of running pool tasks in person this year, we invited teams to submit videos to demonstrate the performance of their novel ROV design. 25 teams submitted videos for this event. Check out the pool courses highlights here.
Middle School Stock
1st Place: Kraken, Mayport Middle School
2nd Place: Leatherbacks, Mayport Middle School
3rd Place: ECH Science, Asotin Lion’s Club
High School Stock
1st Place: Proto Knights, James B. Castle High School
2nd Place: Fletcher Team A, Fletcher High School
3rd Place: H20H!, Charleston Charter School for Math and Science
Open Class
1st Place: Waterway Wahoos, Fleming Island High School
2nd Place: PHG, Sunset Elementary Davis School District
3rd Place: Eat My Bubbles 3.0 COVID Edition, Sunset Elementary/Davis School District
Real-World Innovation Awards
This optional event invited teams to submit a digital poster exploring a real-world application for underwater ROVs. We received posters from 31 teams and all the posters are published here on the SeaPerch website. Judging for this event was open for public reviews and 451 people submitted scores and feedback during the review period.
Middle School Class
1st Place: HMS SeaBots: Megalodons
2nd Place: Reeths-Puffer Robotics, Reeths-Puffer
3rd Place: KayAk, Ideaventions Academy
High School Class
1st Place: C Monkeys, Troy High School NJROTC
2nd Place: Axolotls, Georgetown High School
3rd Place: Q-Divers, Texas A&M University at Qatar
Community & Outreach Recognition
This year we invited competing teams to participate in a special “Give Back” event focused on Community and Outreach. We didn’t provide a lot of guidance and simply asked teams to provide a short written statement with supporting photos or videos describing how they were giving back to their community. We received submissions from 18 teams and are all available on the Team section of the 2021 Challenge website. We recommend checking them out!
For all of these 18 teams, we know these projects were just a snapshot of the impact you’re making locally. We applaud your efforts and can’t wait to see what you do next.
Congratulations to all the 2021 SeaPerch teams!
A special thank you to the 2021 International SeaPerch Challenge volunteers & judges that made this event possible.
