1. An adventure into the underwater world of the Polar regions By: Bryana Burton

2. o SCINI is a small, slender vehicle that is capable of fitting through small areas of ice. o SCINI is also capable of going deep down to the ocean floors and takes photographical evidence of what the ocean floor has to show.

3. o The Project SCINI participants wanted to create SCINI because they were very curious to see what discoveries they could find under the Polar regions. o This was started in 2007. Stacy Kim Francois Cazenave Bob Zook

4. o The participants science goal was to finish the lost experiments that were started in 1990. o The lost experiments were effects of predation. o Predation: o Their educational goal was to get students interested in what is under the Polar regions. o Their engineering goal was to navigate a slender robot to take pictures of the ocean floor. http://scini1.mlml.calstate.edu/

5. o SCINI is 15 inches wide and the hole the SCINI team drills for SCINI’s departure is 20 inches wide. o To make this hole the team uses a Jiffy Drill that can drill 7 meters in just twenty minutes.

6. o SCINI can go about 20 feet into solid ice sheets. o In Antarctica, when passing the Ross ice shelf SCINI goes about 800 feet.

7. o When SCINI is in the Polar regions she mostly looks for things you wouldn’t normally find under the Pacific ocean. o For example SCINI tries to find volcano sponges or Octocorals.

8. SCINI finds her way around the Polar regions by using a laser that helps guide her in the right direction to take the pictures.

9. Some of the features are thruster couples, floatation's, and micro tunnel thrusters.

10. In a few years from now SCINI’s overall appearance will change. Some of these changes include Counter rotating propellers, a gripper manulator, multi-beam sonar.

11. Thank you to the SCINI team for keeping their websites updated on what SCINI has been up to. Thank you to Bob Zook for giving me a lot of helpful information on SCINI throughout this whole project.