Montezuma robotics team prepares for competition

Montezuma robotics team members watch a video on robotic automation during a tour of Colewell Automation in Montezuma. Dustin Stowell, back, Director of Operations at Colewell Automation, led the video. Submitted photo MONTEZUMA — Thanks to a three-year grant from Iowa STEM Scale-Up through the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, seven students at Montezuma High School are able to participate on a robotics team.“This grant allowed us to create a fully funded robotics team to compete in the BIOBUZZ FIRST Tech Challenge,” said coach and teacher Allison Pargeon.To get the robotics program rolling, Pargeon, along with co-coach and teacher Alicia Minner, attended a three-day training this past summer to learn how to build a robot using GoBilda materials as well as how to coach a robotics team.The program got off to a slow start, but is building momentum thanks to local and area sponsorship.“The grant has been slow to get our robot parts to us, so we have asked generous companies to…

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