Duct-Ties and Zip-Tape is a FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Tech Challenge robotics team based in Canton. Team 10068 is a second-year team, which has high school students from the community. This group had a successful day at the recent Georgia State Championship. The team was ranked seventh out of 36 teams and part of the winning alliance in the finals, advancing them to the South Super-Regional Championship, which hosts the top teams from eleven southern states in Athens, GA.

FIRST is a robotics competition founded by inventor Dean Kamen. It is an international phenomenon, which pairs students with corporate engineering sponsors to build a robot, which will compete in a sport-like event. The goal of the FIRST program is to give students hands-on experience working with real engineers, so engineers and scientists are seen as role models in the same way professional athletes are.