Ready to see how engineering can change the world – and have some serious fun doing it?

Dive headfirst into the high-impact world of robotics alongside other driven high school students. This isn’t a lecture, it’s a build, test, compete experience. You’ll use your design skills to enhance an underwater robot and put it to the test at the National Underwater Robotics Competition, tackling a high-stakes mission unlike anything you’ve done before.

Your challenge: respond to a maritime disaster in the Pacific and deploy your underwater robot to recover scattered rubber duckies, remove hazardous materials, and document damage to fragile marine ecosystems in a simulated deep-sea environment. Along the way, you’ll gain real engineering skills – buoyancy, electrical systems, controls, and autonomy – all through hands-on problem solving.

You’ll also meet and learn from Desert WAVE, the #1-ranked underwater robotics team in the U.S., and see what it takes to compete at the highest level.

No experience required – just curiosity, creativity, and the drive to build something extraordinary.