Winner of the "Best Use of Hardware" category at the Space Apps
Challenge Salvador
FROM SALVADOR, BAHIA, BRAZIL TO THE WORLD
Impacting the region and transforming lives
The team made a significant impact on the number of participants in
2021 was the city among the 45 with the most participants, ranking
6th among 320 cities in the world.
Our big impact today is EDUCATION. We make ourselves available to
talk to other young people and teenagers who already have an
interest in entrepreneurship, innovation, and having a positive
impact on the world. For this reason, we actively participate in
Hack at Schools, an initiative that takes the hackathons methodology
to children and teenagers in public schools, impacting over 600
teenagers in a total of 4 public schools.
TO THE SKY AND ABOVE
Our team is composed by
OUR TRANSFORMING CREATION: OCEAN RIDE
Ocean Ride Model 1
Perspective view of Ocean Ride
Ocean Ride Model 2
Side view of Ocean Ride
1ST: WHAT IS THE OCEAN RIDE?
Ocean Ride is a microplastic collection system that works differently
than others. In this project we have two main products: first use as a
dockable object on any boat and in addition be a fixed platform
strategically positioned in the areas of sea currents that is where has
the largest flow of these materials. The system will use the Van Der
Graff generator principle to attract micro plastic through an
electrostatic current and store this debris inside a container.
2ND: APPLICABILITY AND FEASIBILITY:
FACILITY: First we will use thousands of existing vessels that make
trips around the entire maritime territory, docking our collection
system to take advantage of the sea routes and use them to our advantage
and helping to clean up the ocean. Moreover, on fixed platforms we will
take advantage of the sea currents that converge to a strategic place
that throws the waste towards the positioning of our platform.
ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY: The economic viability will make companies
embrace our solution, while enabling sustainability and cleanliness of
the ocean, will provide additional profit for ship companies. In
addition, NASA will have a low cost to implement.
COMPANY IMAGE: The company will be associated with a sustainable
image, and consequently will generate a competitive differential that
will help in the formation of new business, besides being able to
achieve a stronger partnership with the clients interested in this
image.
3rd Solution
Van Der Graff's generator principle is the heart of the project, and it
is responsible for all the attraction of microplastics across a specific
field to attract only that plastic. The device works similar to a
magnet. In addition, there is a conveyor belt that, when it comes into
contact with the Van Der Graff generator orb, will be electrified and
attract our debris, but in order not only to guarantee the electrostatic
charge on the conveyor belts, a blade mechanism with a maximum hole size
of 5mm. will be inserted into the treadmill.
Right after the process of attracting the microplastic, we will store
this waste, compacting it to optimize as much space as possible
About Team Cafeina
From the victory at the NASA Space Apps Challenge Salvador, in 2019 we
became disseminators of the culture of impact entrepreneurship...
Young people won around the world with a project to care for the
oceans; they go to the USA to present the project A businessman who
got on the bus, a country boy who comes to the capital to study.
Another who dreamed of getting to know Disney and as a child wanted
to be an astronaut. Someone who needs to work all day and study at
night. The future administrator who dreams of doing something big
and helping others. Looking at the distance, although quite
different, the profiles can fit the stories of many students. The
feat of these five Bahians, however, is unique: the team won the
largest Hackathon in the world, promoted by Nasa - the Nasa Space
Apps Challenge 2019 - and now prepares the bags to visit the
headquarters of the entity in the United States (USA). With the name
of Ocean Ride, the boys' project created a device to collect plastic
microparticles from the waters, helping to clean them. To perform
the 'service', the device would be attached to large vessels such as
cruise ships, cargo ships or oil platforms and would act as a
'magnet' at sea. As a prize, young people will visit NASA's Kennedy
Space Center in Florida, United States, and will have the
opportunity to present the project to the American Aerospace Agency.
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