The Jesuit High School Robotics Team on Saturday prepared for the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education competition.

Clad in red T-shirts, the 20 students watched their undersea robot complete practice runs in the school swimming pool.

“This is a real-life representation,” team member Nick Sopwith, 17, said of the robot’s tasks.

Robots at this year’s competition, scheduled June 20-22 in Seattle, are supposed to “service and place a sensor network” in the water that monitors temperatures and climate change, said Sopwith, an incoming senior.

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