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=** About The Sea Perch Institute **= The Sea Perch Institute (SPI) encourages and supports advanced and multidisciplinary curriculum, in and out of the classroom. Students are given technical support and asked to solve a complex, real world problem from the field of ocean engineering

Every year, educators from [|MIT Sea Grant] accept applications from New England Teachers. The schools that are selected to compete are given technical and financial support. In exchange, the teachers and their students build underwater ROVs-remotely operated vehicles--that are capable of solving a complex, real-world problem from the field of ocean engineering. At the end of the school year, the students travel to the MIT campus to compete in the yearly challenge. In 2010, the students had to recover a sunken ship. This year, they'll have to respond to a disastrous oil spill.

= About MIT Sea Grant = The mission of the MIT Sea Grant College Program is to employ innovative research, education and outreach strategies to responsibly use and sustain the vital marine resources of Massachusetts. The issues we address manifest locally but many are global in nature. Compelling challenges demand our attention as a solo entity and in partnership with other groups living and working on the coasts and at sea. MIT Sea Grant brings the substantial intellectual abilities of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and our sister universities to bear on ocean-related challenges requiring an extraordinary technical contribution. In meeting these challenges, we expand human understanding of the ocean and establish the infrastructure to sustain the initiatives and talent pool needed to address complex issues of critical and fragile marine resources.

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