{"id":252024,"date":"2026-05-21T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/franklin-area-high-school-invests-in-technology-for-the-future-front-page\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:45:23","slug":"franklin-area-high-school-invests-in-technology-for-the-future-front-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/franklin-area-high-school-invests-in-technology-for-the-future-front-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin Area High School invests in technology for the future | Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A super-sized 3D printer and robotic canine are bringing cutting-edge technology to the students at Franklin Area High School with the goal of exposing them to the future of technology long before they hit the workforce.<\/p>\n

The four-legged, gyro-guided robot dog has \u201clived\u201d at Franklin Area High School since last spring.<\/p>\n

Unlike some other robots, the Unitree Go2 Robot Dog didn\u2019t know how to do a lot of things out-of-the-box, but instead needed to be trained so that its artificial intelligence software (AI) could \u201clearn\u201d how to respond to commands and even do things as simple as walk through a doorway.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of it was learning how prompt creation works for AI,\u201d explained Director of Technology Giancarlo Delmo. \u201cThey have to learn how to think like a robot does. It\u2019s sequential … \u2018Look at your surroundings, tell me what you see, then do the command.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Senior Ayden White, who was president of the Franklin Creators\u2019 Club until recently due to his upcoming graduation, said the robot knew some things, like what a door was, but \u201cit had some issues with the door frame,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The students had to learn how to turn off the robot\u2019s avoidance sensors, a safety feature to prevent it from running into things, so that it would walk through a doorway.<\/p>\n

Or, for commands like \u201cGo up to the person with the orange shirt,\u201d the robot had to be trained to differentiate between an orange shirt and background orange, Delmo said. One student spent an hour making faces at it to teach it emotions, he said.<\/p>\n

The goal of buying the dog was to incorporate a new style of robotics into the school, which already had exposed students to robots through VEX and BEST Robotics programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is different, more futuristic, more complex,\u201d Delmo explained. \u201cThis is technology being used today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robot dogs like the school\u2019s are…<\/p>\n

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