Mr. Manildi, Physics instructor from Aptos High School, brought his National Championship Team to explain how they won the US Underwater Remote Robotics Championship. In competition against 450 other teams from through out the Nation the competition was held last month in Houston over four days. The Aptos team won outright in several specific engineering categories and moved on to the finals. Their Remote robot was specifically designed for Deep sea Oil rig recovery. When the scores were tallied the Aptos team were National Champions! Today we met part of the team who each took turns in explaining their specific contribution to the overall project. This was exciting to see these young motivated College bound scholars so focused and proud to be a member of this select winning team. Thanks for your work Mr. Minildi, we will check back on you next year to see where we might be able to help.
 
Aptos High school National Robotics Champions!