A teen robotics team in San Antonio is trying to develop an early warning flood detection system after the Hill Country floods.

The TechnoWizards Robotics Team is using artificial intelligence to develop the model.

Conversations have been happening across the state since July 4 about what future warning systems could look like. Angela Zhang said she started the project to help.

“I decided to maybe take my past projects and turn them into something that can be used for this situation,” Zhang said.

The TechnoWizards are made up of eighth graders, ninth graders and 10th graders. The teenagers are working with college students to build the program.

“It’s a deep learning model,” Zhang said.

Here’s how the model works: • Using photos from past floods, the AI system learns to detect risin

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