Contest III: SPLASH

Successful teams emerging from the BUILD Contest will be eligible to enter the SPLASH Contest, wherein they will refine their designs over a 3- to 6-month period and then test the system at-sea for approximately 1 week. The SPLASH Contest is meant to assess endurance and performance of the system in real-world conditions.

During the week-long test, contestant teams will demonstrate all functional aspects of their prototypes systems in an integrated way, to include maneuverability, self-charging, data collection, and wireless communication, as represented in the DESIGN Contest scoring statements. The location of the test site will be announced at a later date.