Imagine designing and building a robot capable of navigating and completing complex missions underwater. The International RoboSub Competition has the top 40 teams from all over the world compete, and rising to the top was DesertWAVE: the all-women robotics team from Arizona State University. This is the first US team to win since 2017, and the team was made up of mostly Hispanic women, several of whom are first-generation college students. Their robot excelled at missile firing, underwater mobility, and surfacing at precise locations.

To learn more about their historic international success, read the press release about their win or watch this video from 12News. You can learn more about the DesertWAVE team at DesertWAVE.us.