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<\/p>\nSt. Francis High School’s robotics team heads to World Championships<\/p>\n
The team has now qualified for the World Championship for the sixth consecutive year. SF Robotics won the world title in 2023. <\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWELCOME BACK. A HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS TEAM IN SACRAMENTO IS HEADING TO THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, AND THEY\u2019RE GOING TO BE UP AGAINST SOME OF THE BRIGHTEST YOUNG MINDS IN THE STATE. ERIN HEFT SHOWS US HOW THEY\u2019RE PREPARING. YES. VERY EXCITING. NEXT FEW DAYS FOR THE SAINT FRANCIS ROBOTICS TEAM. JOINING ME IS YOGA. OKAY. SO YOU ARE A 12TH GRADER. THIS IS YOUR LAST YEAR. YOU\u2019VE PARTICIPATED IN THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR FOUR YEARS, AND YOU\u2019RE HEADED TO NEWFOUNDLAND ON SUNDAY. THAT HAS TO BE EXCITING. YES, IT\u2019S DEFINITELY REALLY EXCITING. IT\u2019S SO NICE THAT MY LAST YEAR DURING THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IS INTERNATIONAL, AND THAT\u2019S SUPER EXCITING. IT\u2019S GOING TO BE A REALLY GREAT NEW ENVIRONMENT TO LEARN ABOUT MORE ABOUT THE WORLD, AND IT\u2019S GOING TO BE SO FUN. SO WAS HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, NOW COLLEGIATE LEVEL. SO TALK TO ME ABOUT WHAT WE\u2019RE SEEING BECAUSE THIS IS AN ROV, RIGHT? YEAH. THIS IS YEAH. SO THIS IS OUR ROV AURELIA. AND RIGHT NOW IT\u2019S COMPLETING TASKS UNDERWATER SUCH AS PICKING UP THIS CORAL SPECIES, AS YOU CAN SEE, WHICH IS STIMULATED BY THE PVC PROPS THAT WE\u2019VE BUILT. AND ALL THESE TASKS ARE MEANT TO SIMULATE A REAL WORLD TASKS THAT ROV DO. SO WE\u2019RE REALLY GETTING HANDS ON EXPERIENCE, EVEN THOUGH THE PROPS ARE, YOU KNOW, LIKE THEY\u2019RE NOT REAL, BUT IT\u2019S DEFINITELY SUPER IMPORTANT. SO WHAT IS YOUR FUTURE PLANS? BECAUSE ROBOTICS AT THIS LEVEL, VERY IMPRESSIVE AND NICHE. IT\u2019S VERY STEM. YES. YEAH. SO I WAS REALLY INSPIRED BY MY TIME HERE GOING INTO HIGH SCHOOL. I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE DOING ROBOTICS, BUT I REALLY LOVED IT. AND NOW I\u2019M GOING TO BE STUDYING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT UCLA SOON. SO I\u2019M SUPER, SUPER EXCITED. CONGRATULATIONS. THANK YOU. OKAY. LAST QUESTION. YOU, YOUR TEAM MENTORS STUDENTS ALL THE WAY DOWN TO FIFTH GRADE LEVEL. TALK TO ME ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT. YEAH, IT\u2019S SUPER IMPORTANT. I THINK LIKE HAVING ALL THIS KNOWLEDGE COMING IN AND LEARNING OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, IT\u2019S DEFINITELY ONLY IMPORTANT IF YOU\u2019RE HANDING IT DOWN AND GIVING IT ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION. SO WE NAVIGATE, WE THIS YEAR, WE MENTORED A NAVIGATOR TEAM, WHICH IS THE, I THINK LIKE BEGINNER HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION. AND THAT\u2019S BEEN REALLY EXCITING AND IT\u2019S SUPER COOL SEEING ALL THE NEW MEMBERS GO THROUGH THE SAME LEARNING PROCESS WE DID. AND IT\u2019S SUPER INSPIRING SEEING THEM, YOU KNOW, LEARN ABOUT ROBOTICS AND GROW A PASSION FOR IT TOO, LIKE WE DID OVER THE YEARS. YEAH. APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. WELL, WE\u2019LL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS PICTURE OF THE ROBOT DOING ITS\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
St. Francis High School’s robotics team heads to World Championships<\/p>\n
The team has now qualified for the World Championship for the sixth consecutive year. SF Robotics won the world title in 2023. <\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 10:40 AM PDT Jun 19, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tSt. Francis High School’s robotics team is preparing to compete at the World Championships in Canada, where the girls will showcase the underwater robot that they designed and built during the school year.This year\u2019s team includes 16 sophomores, four juniors and four seniors. For the first time, the high school team will compete against universities such as Purdue, Northeastern University, the University of Washington, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.The students engineered their robot from the ground up, developing skills in electrical systems, coding, mechanics and teamwork throughout the season.The team has now qualified for the World Championship for the sixth consecutive year. SF Robotics won the world title in 2023. See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel | Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tSACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n St. Francis High School’s robotics team is preparing to compete at the World Championships in Canada, where the girls will showcase the underwater robot that they designed and built during the school year.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s team includes 16 sophomores, four juniors and four seniors. For the first time, the high school team will compete against universities such as Purdue, Northeastern University, the University of Washington, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.<\/p>\n The students engineered their robot from the ground up, developing skills in electrical systems, coding, mechanics and teamwork throughout the season.<\/p>\n The team has now qualified for the World Championship for the sixth consecutive year. SF Robotics won the world title in 2023. <\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a> | Make KCRA a preferred news source in Google<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Francis High School’s robotics team heads to World Championships The team has now qualified for the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,149017,23615,5008,149016,289,149014,5584,121,123,122,149013,37405,645,26628,1970,149015,1816,558,24179],"class_list":["post-367425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-app","tag-coding","tag-download","tag-electrical-system","tag-hong-kong-university","tag-mechanic","tag-robotic-team-head","tag-robotics","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-saint-francis-high-school","tag-school-year","tag-science","tag-st-francis-high-school","tag-technology","tag-underwater-robot","tag-university","tag-washington","tag-world-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}