Student project
BlueWave
Guardian
Meet BlueWave Guardian
This drone was created to solve the real-life problem of ocean and wildlife conservation. A cutting-edge aerial guardian built to protect our marine ecosystems.
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Real-Life
Problem
What Is the Problem?
Oceans and wildlife are becoming unsafe because of pollution, human activities, and climate change, causing many animals to lose their habitats and food.
Where Does It Happen?
In the ocean.
Who or What Is Affected?
Ocean animals, coral reefs, seabirds, marine ecosystems, and people who depend on the ocean are affected by pollution, climate change, and habitat destruction.
Plastic waste polluting ocean ecosystems worldwide
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Our
Solution
Our Drone
The solution is using high-tech, non-invasive aerial drones to safely collect real-time data, monitor wildlife, and patrol vast marine ecosystems efficiently.
What Does It Do?
It continuously scans the ocean from above, using high resolution and thermal cameras, to track animal health, map coral reefs, and transmit live location data to conservation teams to stop illegal fishing in real time.
How Does It Work?
It flies along pre-set flight paths over target ocean areas using autonomous navigation and long-range battery power.
It captures detailed visual, thermal, and sensor data of marine life and habitats using high-resolution gimbal cameras.
It streams live coordinates and real-time analytical data directly to research teams and coastal patrol vessels.
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My
Drone
Propeller
What does it do? Propellers help the drone to fly. The spinning blades generate lift and thrust, allowing the drone to hover, move, and maneuver precisely over ocean areas.
Sensor / Thermal Sensory
What does it do? The thermal sensor senses wildlife and corals. It detects heat signatures to identify marine life, map coral reefs, and spot warm-blooded wildlife or poachers even at night.
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How It
Helps
How Does the Drone Help?
The propeller gives the drone the lift and stability needed to hover silently over marine life and fight ocean winds, enabling sustained, precise surveillance missions over vast ocean areas.
How Does the Invented Feature Help?
Propellers give the drone the lift and stability needed to hover silently over marine life and fight ocean winds. Meanwhile, standard and thermal sensors allow it to map reefs, identify animal species, and spot warm-blooded wildlife or poachers even at night.
Why Is Our Drone Useful?
This drone is useful because it gives conservationists a fast, cost-effective, and non-invasive way to monitor vast ocean areas, track vulnerable marine wildlife without disturbing them, and instantly alert coastal patrols to illegal fishing and habitat destruction.
Additional Design Ideas
To expand its capabilities, the drone could also collect non-invasive DNA samples from whale spray, lower underwater microphones to detect illegal activity, and use AI to automatically identify and track specific marine species.
The BlueWave GuardianShachinAI Drone Soccer ChallengeTwo daysAugust 2026, Johor Bahru
Meet the maker
Shachin made this.Two days
One day designing a drone and writing the site you just read, one flying for real at the arena.
“This drone is useful because it gives conservationists a fast, cost-effective, and non-invasive way to monitor vast ocean areas, track vulnerable marine wildlife without disturbing them, and instantly alert coastal patrols to illegal fishing and habitat destruction.”
What he made and learned
- Propeller
- Sensor / Thermal Sensory
AI Drone Soccer Challenge
A drone that hovers over whales and reefs, watching for the boats that should not be there.
A drone invented for a real problem, with a website and a pitch, in one day.
- Curiosity
Asking what AI is
The real drone in their hands has none.
- Creativity
Picking one problem
One specific problem, not a whole category.
- Confidence
Ask, test, improve
Clear asks, round after round, until it matched.
- Community
Pitching
Our problem is. Our drone is. It helps by.
Scientists already use AI to recognise sea creatures, the idea Shachin had for his drone.
Day two · REVA arena
Then they flew for real.
Send it on
Send this to someone.
Shachin took on ocean and wildlife conservation, designed a drone that patrols the sea without disturbing it, and made this website to explain the mission.
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Your child could make something like this.