GIN Conference and More!!

Many people in our world believe that being part of an environmental group just means recycling or doing stuff that involves plastic bottles. Let me tell you, I was one of those people, I admit. Then I got involved in Sea Savers and started learning the meaning of what it really means to be a person who loves and cares about nature. This doesn’t mean that I am just writing to make people reflect, of course. I am writing because I want to be a spark in people’s head to inspire them to make a change not to just forget after 5 minutes of ‘quick reflection’. Sea Savers is an student organization dedicated to the protection of the coral reefs of the Dominican Republic. Our main focus is the lionfish. We have fantastic and really brave girls that presented our country as well as our organization in the GIN conference in Costa Rica. These girls made a fantastic and educated presentation that involved all their knowledge and experience about this topic. They also expressed their points of view and their ideas about saving the coral reefs through our intellectual activities. These girls were strong enough to show all their knowledge and love about nature in a room full of people that were also interested in knowing how we can change the world and make it a better place for the next generations. So, that’s Sea Savers, our goals and dreams. We don’t simply participate in activities that involve posters saying “save the world” but rather present ourselves to the world as leaders that want to create a spark, a bright shine in people’s mind not just a phrase that’ll last for 1 or 2 hours.

Children are the future!

Because the Sea Savers know this to be true, we've sent over a few representatives (including Bianca, Maria Jose, and Laura) to the 5th grade classrooms. They touched over the basic facts about coral reefs and lionfish and were surprised to find out how much the kids already knew! They've been studying these topics in their own classroom in order to study how ecosystems work and why it is important to protect them. There were some trivia questions and silly games to help them remember which kind of coral was staghorn and elkhorn, and they had a blast! Keeping the 5th graders under control wasn't always easy, but they were mostly a very attentive and active audience. 

Article by: Laura Losmozos

CMS Team Drift and the Sea Savers

The Sea Savers have been working with CMS' robotics team, Team Drift for a few months now. After numerous meetings and information sessions, It's my delightfull pleasure to inform you about Team Drift has
finished design of a lionfish-diminishing, poulation-controlling robot as the glorious result of our collaboration. Now, what the actual robot does in order to control this invasive species is still uncertain, since the following image is merely a "first draft". The
CMS robotics team has been extremely helpful through out this process, they've been completely willing to do anything form a lionfish crash
course all the way to attending one of our Sea Saver meetings outside
of school. Thanks a lot to Team Drift for your cooperation, the Sea
Savers look forward to our continued work together.

by: Maria Laura Leon