Jan 10, 2021 Jan 10, 2021 MONTGOMERY â Children in the Upper Kanawha Valley will soon have the opportunity to explore the burgeoning field of robotics thanks to a recent $10,000 grant from Truist Foundation to BridgeValley Community and Technical College. The grant is targeted for BridgeValleyâs makerspace called The GRID, an area designed to encourage creativity and collaboration in crafts, coding and more. Specifically, the grant will fund BVCTCâs VEX Robotics program that encourages and cultivates coding skills in elementary, middle and high school students. Students will learn to design, build and operate robots in camps and after-school programs. The grant will also support BVCTCâs three robotics competition teams (two middle school-aged, and one high school-aged) to participate in local, state and national robotics competitions. The robotics instructor has taken several teams to state competitions in the past.