Animation 2009 -- CODE BLUE

FIRST Robotics headquarters gave this season's competitors an unusual but increasingly relevant challenge: to use biomimicry to inspire an engineering design that will solve a human problem. After all, biomimicry is the study and adaptation of already existing designs in nature to provide solutions for human issues, and in a society where green is the new black, nature has indeed become the muse of all the world. Upon hearing this unique animation challenge, Team MorTorq's initial reaction of "Huh?" quickly turned into an excited brainstorming session and exchange of creative ideas. After hours of deliberation, with each member pitching their own idea and improving upon those of their peers, the animation team finally settled on a compromise that truly satisfies all the members of this group of vibrant young leaders. And so, streaming forth from the BHHS Robotics computer screen this year is a design that will perhaps one day fully take ca­ re of the exponential problem that is ocean pollution. The team, taking inspiration from the graceful manta ray, has designed a manned submersible capable of cleansing the extraordinarily polluted waters of the world ocean.