Battle of the Bots: GC Robotics team first in school history to head to State

GRUNDY CENTER - For the first time in school history, a team of students in the Grundy Center Robotics Club are headed to the state competition, where they will compete against 47 other teams from across Iowa in a battle of the bots.
 
The “Killer Ducks” are one of three teams in the Grundy Center Robotics Club, and self-described “rookies” that managed to start with nothing and make their way to the top of the high school robotics game.
 
“We’re a rookie team, mostly sophomores and some juniors, but we somehow managed to move on to state,” said team member Hunter Hawk. “It’s pretty amazing.”
 
During their sub-state competition earlier this month, the team scored 254 points and won a face off during the alliance round, where the students team up with another school to make an alliance and challenge another group. And though they have made history as Grundy Center’s first team to make it to the state robotics competition, the journey had its share of bumps in the road.
 
“We started the season out pretty well, and had some tournaments that didn’t go as well as we would’ve liked, but right before [the sub-state competition] we as a team decided if we wanted to make it further and go to state, we had to make some big sacrifices and take some risks,” said team member Connor Mast.
 
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