San Marino High School Robotics Team’s World Championship Run Ignites Community Pride
San Marino, CA – May twenty eighth, two thousand twenty four – The San Marino Unified School District Board of Education meeting morphed into a full-blown celebration Tuesday evening. The reason? Everyone was super stoked to shower the San Marino High School Titanium Robotics team with love after their totally epic, history-making season. We’re talking goosebumps, people.
Imagine this: the thirty-three-member team, fresh off their incredible run at the FIRST Robotics Competition World Championships in Houston, swaggers into the meeting. The crowd erupts! Parents, teachers, their fellow students, people from all over town—they’re on their feet, cheering their hearts out for these rockstar engineers. Talk about hometown pride!
From Humble Beginnings to a Historic Win: The Journey to Houston
The road to the world stage started way back in April at the FIRST Robotics Competition Los Angeles Regionals in El Segundo. It was there that Titanium Robotics really brought the heat, showing off their mad technical skills and commitment to saving the planet. The judges were blown away, awarding them the coveted Team Sustainability Award.
But they weren’t done yet. Oh no, these guys were just getting warmed up. They went on to absolutely crush it at the East Bay Regionals in Berkeley, snagging their first-ever regional win in the club’s twenty-three-year history! This was HUGE. Like, write-it-in-the-yearbook HUGE. This victory punched their ticket to the World Championships in Houston, a feat no other San Marino High team had ever pulled off.
Engineering Prowess and the Power of Teamwork Take Center Stage
During the school board meeting, Gavin Morris, Titanium Robotics’ Engineering President, took the stage. He gave this totally captivating presentation about the team’s journey, all the ups and downs and everything in between. He talked about the insane amount of time they poured into designing, building, and programming their robot, like they were practically living in the lab. He got real about the challenges they faced and the seriously innovative solutions they came up with.