SDSU ROBOTICS CLUB RECEIVES $10K GRANT

SDSU Robotics Club members, from left, Keegan Visher, Connor Olson and Maverick Beckmann work on the assembly of a 30-pound robot, nicknamed “Roadkill,” which they will enter in a collegiate combat robotics contest March 18. The club has received a $10,000 grant to help its robot-building efforts.

The robotics club at South Dakota State University is better equipped to enter a collegiate combat robotics contest this spring after receiving a $10,000 grant.

The SDSU Robotics Club received notice Jan. 27 that it was among 100 college robotics organizations receiving a $10,000 award from the Norwalk Havoc Robot League in Norwalk, Connecticut. The grants are designed “to help inspire innovation a…