What happens when high school students are given one week of hands-on STEM learning? Students at Lynwood Unified School District answered that question after attending the Build the Future Innovation Summer Academy at Faraday Future headquarters in El Segundo.

Over the course of five days, students from Marco Antonio Firebaugh and Lynwood high schools explored artificial intelligence, robotics, mechanical engineering, and Python programming while learning to design and build their own robotic components.

The program concluded with student project presentations, live robotics demonstrations, and an awards ceremony recognizing their achievements. Students from El Segundo USD also participated.

Inspired by what they learned, some students are already planning to launch a robotics club on campus.

“I got to experience a lot of things I would not have been able to experience throughout my whole life, like coding with robotics,” said Jenny Chen, a rising sophomore at Firebaugh High School. “I’ve been thinking about majoring in electrical engineering, which is more general, so I could use my degree for something like going into robotics.”