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TURTLES IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
2016-17 LFS ROBOTICS TEAM
What's our problem?
The Plight of the Turtles of the
Chesapeake Bay!
Our Solution! • Raise funds
• Raise awareness
• Take action
How did we get here? • Our thought process started with us brainstorming about the different
relationships between animals and humans.
1. Domestic animals
2. Farm animals
3. Wild animals
• We came up with different ideas such as: an animal Fitbit, cat wash,
automatic fish feeders, and tracking apps.
• We started talking about different ways to interact with animals.
• We started realizing that we as minors cannot be as active in helping
animals as we want to be.
• In the end, we decided to help the turtles in the Chesapeake Bay
because we are close to it and there are many foundations that already
work towards helping the animals in the bay.
Why Are Turtles Important?
• Turtles have existed on Earth
for more than 100 million years
• Fundamental links in the
ecosystem
• Keeps the ecosystem in balance
by eating large amounts of
jellyfish
• Provide large amount of
ecotourism, especially in the
Coral Triangle
There are a lot of different turtles in the Chesapeake Bay including:
• Red-bellied Cooter
• Loggerhead
• Eastern Box
• Leatherback
• Spotted
• Diamondback Terrapin
Many turtles in the Chesapeake Bay are
either endangered or threatened. There are
many reasons to why this happens:
• Habitat loss due to development and
urbanization.
• Commercial fisheries
• Being consumed by predators
• Getting entangled in debris
• Oil spills
• Poaching by Humans
• Beach driving
• Artificial Lighting
• Eating plastics bags
• Boating
STEPS TO OUR
SOLUTION!
Step 1 Raising funds
• Selling turtle cookies
• ‘Spirit nights' at local restaurants
• Dress down day at our school
Step 2 Raise awareness
• In our school we did a coloring
contest of Myrtle the turtle (a
mascot we made)
• Myrtle flyers will be handed out to
spread word of our beach clean-ups
and fundraisers
• We self-informed by having a
curator of estuarine biology from
the Calvert Marine Museum come
speak to us.
Step 3
Take Action
• We are donating the money
we raise to the Chesapeake
Bay Foundation and Calvert
Marine Museum
• We will do beach clean-up
days to reduce the amount of
trash on the beach
www.chesapeakebay.net › Discover the Chesapeake › Field Guide
Sources
http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/leatherback-turtle
curator of estuarine biology from the Calvert Marine Museum
Thank You For
Listening!!!!!!