SF Unity Robotics

SF UNITY Robotics

SF UNITY is a rookie FIRST Robotics Competition team based in San Francisco that aims to promote STEM outreach in schools. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) inspires young people to be science and technology leaders and innovators, as well as well rounded contributors to society, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based, research and robotics programs. SF UNITY also has students from multiple high schools in order to further connect our community.

SF UNITY was co-founded by Leyton Lin ‘24, who, along with his co-founder Kyle from The Urban School, had an ambitious idea to start a FIRST robotics team. Their goal was to expand the network of people interested in STEM from outside UHS and peer high schools. Instead of creating private teams within each school, they wanted to conjoin these communities and unify San Francisco. Their hope is that SF UNITY will encourage more students to join the STEAM community, as well as create stronger bonds between high schools.

According to Lin, “Our mission is to unite different kids from diverse communities from across the Bay Area through the wonderful world of STEM. We’ve just begun reaching out to younger students in San Francisco to inspire them to learn more and encourage curiosity.”

SF UNITY is made up of a group of diverse high school students spanning from freshmen to seniors, across multiple high schools in the Bay Area. “We are all very motivated to contribute

to this team and get this rookie team off the ground and flying.”

For more information about SF UNITY, visit https://www. sfunityrobotics.com/ n

The Team:

Leyton Lin ‘24

Marshall Schneider ‘24

Sebastian Shoup ‘24

Sanayah Mullafero ‘24

Lucas Holden ‘24

Ryan Jo ‘24

Outreach

SF UNITY has started working with the Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco. We want to embody the ideals of FIRST with impact and teamwork, so we’ve created a competition similar to FRC competitions for the children of the Boys and Girls Club using Lego Mindstorms. We’re teaching students the basics of engineering and problemsolving through the use of Lego.

Our Robot

Meet Karl, Team 9038’s first robot! Karl’s named after the wonderful fog of San Francisco. Being SF UNITY, we wanted to embody San Francisco and become the iconic fog. This is a modification of the 2023 Everybot.

The SF UNITY Team in action.

SF UNITY won the Highest Seed Rookie Award as well as the Rookie All Star Award at this regional competition.

Watch Karl in action!