EWEN, Mich. (WLUC) - The robotics team of the Ewen-Trout Creek School District will be heading to Escanaba for their FIRST Robotics competition.

This is only the second year the Ontonagon County school team has participated. The competition combines sport with hands-on training in science and technology. Students at the school only had six weeks to put together their remote-controlled robot and learn how to pilot it.

This year, the robots had to be designed relying on steam power, and the team is pretty confident in what they have been able to construct.

It does exactly what we want, perfectly, FIRST Robotics, Team 5989 member Gentry Brand said. I honestly do not think we'd change anything."

We took two of the three main tasks you can do and got them down to where we could do it, I would say, 99 percent of the time, FIRST Robotics, Team 5989 member Lucas Burrows said.

The Ewen-Trout Creek team, along with several other teams from across the state will take part in the competition March 16th. For more information on the competition, visit this website.

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