Friday

At the end of the lectures we gathered the team to analyze the challenges presented and to choose which we would work on. As a homework we were studying each of the challenges to decide on Saturday morning which ones we would work on.

Saturday (1st Shift)

Among the proposed challenges, the team elected two of mutual interest. We discussed ideas for solving each problem to choose which technically we would be better able to solve. In the end we decided to work with the cleaning of the oceans using autonomous solutions to collect the garbage. We researched which organizations were already working to try to solve the problem and found The Ocean Cleanup that uses a solution similar to what we had thought, however, with some gaps that our solution could cover.

Saturday (2nd Shift)

We began to work on our idea of placing standalone vessels with nets in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and other regions of ocean waste. These vessels would be equipped with systems that could detect marine life and artificial intelligence that could divert living beings. Sensors would detect when the net was full and would cause vessels to move to shore for unloading.

As the afternoon progressed, we concluded that it would be much more efficient to deal with the problem at source. As organizations working on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch have decided to shift our attention to the region near the river’s mouth. In this way, we would prevent the volume of waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and other regions of the oceans from increasing and preventing solid waste from degrading and becoming micro. -particles. We started the documentation and assembly of the slides.

Sunday

We are finalizing the project and slides.