Only a year after its inception, Gainesville High School’s Robotics Alliance is already competing with other science, technology, engineering and math groups in the state.Next month, the nine-member after-school club will travel to Savannah to accept an honorable mention in the first annual S.T.E.M. Education Awards, sponsored by the Technology Association of Georgia. And accolades are fine, the group said, but its goal is to start making waves at the robotics competitions, starting with Georgia’s BEST Robotics competition on Oct. 20, followed by the VEX Robotics competition the next week. Joshua Robinson, a senior, was the catalyst to starting the club after his uncle turned him on to robotics in an attempt to get him to make better grades.