Seattle high school robotics team heads to international underwater robotics championship in Canada

Summary

A team of seven Seattle high school students (Triton Robotics) from Seattle Academy will compete in the MATE ROV World Championships in St. John's, Newfoundland, for the third consecutive year. The underwater robotics competition tasks students with real-world ocean science challenges including mapping cold-water coral ecosystems, deploying ocean observatory instrumentation, modeling offshore wind turbines, and operating profiling floats beneath sea ice.