CHANGING LIVES AND INSPIRING LEARNING THROUGH SCIENCE AND WONDER.
The battles continue this September in Carpenter Hall!
Catawba Science Center is proud to announce the 7th annual Hickory Bot Battles combat robot competition will be returning September 20th & 21st, 2024. Featuring over 100 competitive combat robot builders, robots weighing up to three pounds fight to the "death" in the 8’ x 8’ bullet-proof arena.
As North Carolina's largest combat robot event, Hickory Bot Battles brings competitors from across the country, often including teams that have competed on the BattleBots tv show. Witness the Corporate Cup Competition which gives companies a chance to prove their engineering superiority via a single-elimination combat robot competition for glory and the cherished HBB Corporate Cup Trophy!
Bot Battles will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel
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Plastic Ant and Fairy weight bots
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Robotics kits will be available for purchase at the event from ITGresa
What a wonderful place to visit! Great environment to learn and the staff is very helpful! Hickory is lucky to have great family education and entertainment.
Fabulous and I don’t often give praise. We took our grandson and were there for hours. He loved it and so did we.
We love the Science Center! I take my 2 and 4 year old boys weekly to play and enjoy the exhibits. The staff are wonderful and the classes offered are excellent! We are so blessed to have such an amazing resource in our area.
Took the kiddos and they loved it. Employees were nice and helpful. If your looking for something to do with the kids give this place a shot.
This place was great. We have kids from 8 to 1 and they all had a great time. What I really liked is most of the exhibits are hands on and that really kept them occupied.
