7 Arizona women competed against 41 teams from 18 countries in a robosub competition. They beat them all.
Three recent graduates of the Fulton Schools’ Engineering (Robotics) bachelor’s degree program — Jaqueline Villanueva Castro, Paulina Garibay and Litzi Matancillas — along with computer science undergraduate student Nancy Esquivel Vazquez, were the members of a team that won the championship title in the 27th International Robosub Competition. Their team, Desert WAVE, or Women in Autonomous Vehicle Engineering, competed with two autonomous underwater robots named Dragon and Baby Dragon. Castro was on the ASU electrical team led by Garibay. Matancillas, lead the mechanical team.