Navajo Mountain High School to Represent North America At Robotics Challenge

Rainbow City– In a beautiful and isolated desert in the southwestern tip of San Juan County, Utah, a FIRST Robotics team from Navajo Mountain High School is building a robot and practice field in preparation to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. Team Naatsis’aan (#6546) will travel to Mexico City in August to represent North America.

With the goal to ignite a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), the “Olympics”-style robotics challenge, FIRST Global, invites one team from every nation to participate in an international robotics event that builds bridges between high school students with different backgrounds, languages, religions, and customs.

This small community of around 200 people and “the most isolated chapter of the entire Navajo Nation” has rallied around the robotics team, comprised of seven Navajo Mountain High students. With few conveniently-located resources — the nearest Home Depot is nearly three hours away — the team used what supplies they had on hand.

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