BRILLIANT BLUE 2025
Register to join us as a spectator, virtually or in-person at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, for the Global competition on October 17th & 18th!
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The Brilliant Blue Challenge is your chance to team up, get creative, and tackle real-world ocean challenges.
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Get ready to make waves in ocean innovation!
The Brilliant Blue Challenge is your chance to team up, get creative, and tackle real-world ocean challenges.
Brilliant Blue National Challenge 2025 - Canada’s Young Ocean Innovators
On June 7th, 2025, the Brilliant Blue Canadian National Challenge brought together youth from across Canada at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. The competition featured three categories: Healthy Marine Life, Marine Autonomous Systems, and Marine Renewable Energy. Each category crowned a winning team as well as one overall winner:
- Team JEDI T: winners of the Healthy Marine Life category for their innovative AI-powered system to track and deter invasive green crabs, protecting ecosystems and biodiversity.
- Grammar Gryphons: winners of the Marine Autonomous Systems category with their robotics and AI solution to detect hypoxia zones, giving scientists tools to act before ecosystems collapse.
- Hydro Girls: winners of the Marine Renewable Energy category with their creative project, Tide Tuners, which explores a vertical-axis turbine in the Bay of Fundy to harness powerful tides for clean and sustainable energy.
- Zepaquweveex Wind Project: overall winner of the Brilliant Blue National Challenge from Annapolis West Education Centre. Their team designed an optimized offshore wind turbine system, improving efficiency and durability to advance renewable energy solutions and help build a cleaner energy future.
A $5,000 prize, funded by the Government of Nova Scotia, supported the winning teams, helping them further develop their innovative projects and prepare to represent Canada at the Brilliant Blue Global Challenge on October 17th & 18th in Dartmouth, NS & online.
Inspired? Register to attend in person or online for the upcoming Brilliant Blue Global Challenge
BRILLIANT BLUE IS GLOBAL
Thank you to the #GenerationBlue teams from these countries who have competed in past Brilliant Blue challenges. Let’s continue to grow and push the boundaries of innovation. Represent your country—subscribe to the Brilliant Blue newsletter and follow us on Facebook to stay informed about upcoming international challenges.
Testimonials
"This competition was an international experience, and the biggest lesson I learned was how important it is to take a risk. We took huge leaps of faith, not knowing if our ideas or designs would work, but we persevered."
Sara
Brilliant Blue 2023, Team Scotia Stellar Halifax, NS, Canada
"I’m really happy to see a national competition coming to Nova Scotia. I’ve already registered my team to participate, and my advice to other teachers is just to do it. It’s a really satisfying experience for you as a teacher, and you get really great quality students who step up, volunteer, and are eager to learn."
Dana
Technology / Science Teacher, Halifax, NS Canada
"This challenge was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the experience I gained was invaluable in shaping my future goals and aspirations."
Mayar
Brilliant Blue 2023, Micro Sea Solutions Halifax, NS, Canada
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