Shasta High School class gives students hands-on experience in the world of robotics, AI
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Shasta High School’s Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Program is preparing teenagers for a future that seems limited only by their imagination. Photo taken on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026 (KRCR)
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SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — Shasta High School’s Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Program is preparing teenagers for a future that seems limited only by their imagination.
The future is only a hop, skip and a jump away in Brian Grigsby’s Robotics class. The Northstate’s News Mike Mangas stopped by to see how the technology is changing, along with students’ education and skills, now including Artificial Intelligence.
“It’s almost grown logarithmic as kind of an understatement. It is. It has gone from some just the very basic skills of being able to program to AI is now involved, and we’re really trying to work with kids and training them on how to do that,” said Mr. Grigsby.
The class has two robots, a dog who doesn’t bite and Nao, a humanoid, who practices Tai Chi.
Shasta High School’s Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing Program is preparing teenagers for a future that seems limited only by their imagination. Photo taken on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026 (KRCR)
Zach Brown and Carter Kirby are two seniors, both in their fourth year in the program, ready to use what they’ve learned as they move into higher education and eventual careers.
“One part that I really love is that I am definitely a math guy and it’s basically a combination of math, something that I really love and hands on learning and engineering. And when you combine those together, you basically get robotics and electrical engineering. So working with that every day I get to kind of exercise the logical side of my brain with formulas, equations and critical thinking and how that all combines together,” said Brown.
“I love just being with everything around me, working with robots, technology, computers, learning how to code. That’s definitely a lot of aspects that can get you towards some specific but interesting jobs as well,” said Kirby.
AI is a wonderful tool, however Mr. Grigsby says it will not replace humans.
“Training kids right now in a lot of those skills, those basic skills is still going to be something that AI is not going to be able to do. You know, being able to just simply be a good human. That is something that’s going to be an essential quality for sure,” added Mr. Grigsby.
The Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing class at Shasta High is available to students throughout the district.
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