Design Briefs

Team Design Brief: Design, build and test a rearing habitat for a climate controlled laboratory setting, large enough to accommodate 500,three-month old Horseshoe crabs for future MAST students or scientists to rear until the crabs are six months for the purpose of research and/or breeding and to increase the survival rate from about 0.01% to 5%.

Individual Design Brief: Design and build a marine rearing habitat structure for use in a climate controlled laboratory setting, large enough to accommodate 500, three-month old Horseshoe crabs for future MAST students or scientists to rear to the age of six months for the purpose of research and/or breeding with the goal of increasing the survival rate from about 0.01% to 5%.