Saltwater Classroom was founded in 2018 by Lexi Doudera, a marine biology major who understands that youth education is key to conserving coastal areas. She will build off the success of their SOA-supported curriculum on corals by conducting a  "Deep Dive" Workshop for 250 3rd-5th grade students focused on kelp forests in collaboration with non-profit partners. Participants will learn about kelp itself, kelp forests as an ecosystem, trophic cascade, particular species, as well as an introduction to kelp aquaculture and its role in today's ocean landscape. Behind coral reefs, kelp forests are the second most vulnerable ecosystem in the ocean and most people know very little about them.

Businesses, governments and scientists increasingly need reliable environmental data to adapt to accelerating devastation brought on by the climate crisis, yet it's extremely costly to harness information from waterways, which cover 71% of the planet. Aquaai provides affordable, quality underwater data, easily accessed on a web dashboard using bio-inspired, autonomous fishlike drones. FaaS - Fish as a Service®. Aquaai's end-to-end solution is that affordable “John Deere” tool for workers in waterways.

Returnity replaces single-use shipping and delivery packaging by designing, manufacturing and implementing reusable packaging and circular logistics systems. Used for over 500,000 shipments per month, their packaging addresses the negative impacts from the rapid growth in direct to consumer shipping.

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is based in Jamaica and determines the fate of seabed mining permits for deep sea mining anywhere in the world. Khadija's project raises the voices of Caribbean youth and local awareness of the uncertainties and harm surrounding this emerging industry.

Working with governments, non-profits, and commercial customers, Hohonu designs, builds, and deploys IoT sensor networks along waterways, delivering data products to audiences that previously didn’t have access to such tech. The company has contracts, including SECOORA (secoora.org) across 14 states to deploy its real-time IoT sensor network in coastlines, rivers, and streams.

There are multiple serious environmental problems in Vietnam including overfishing, irresponsible tourism, and lack of environmental literacy, waste management and government regulations to tackle these problems. This initiative is a seed project to establish a baseline for a bigger long-term marine environmental conservation, education, and research project. Interactive, educational activities will be conducted after identifying knowledge gaps in the environmental literacy of locals and ex-pats through discussion-based meetings.

In December 2020, young leaders in the Seychelles held a public panel discussion with representatives from government and civil society presenting the issue of deep seabed mining and discussing the possibilities and implications of mining. This dialogue fit into the Seychelles' current discussions on the marine spatial plan and realisation of its blue economy.

With this project, Sciaena aims to promote a moratorium on Deep Seabed Mining in Portugal, reaching at least 10,000 people. The will do this by coordinating with Oceano Livre to increase membership, organize joint actions with anti land-mining movements in Portugal, and organize a public event. They will also organize meetings with the Minister and the National Director for maritime policy, as well as update Oceano Livre's internal documents, websites and campaign materials.

In collaboration with the local community, CERIOPS is creating a mangrove nursery to improve stock in preparation for restoring degraded mangrove sites.