Innovation in Control Award!

February 4th, 2017 Greetings Everyone, Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week 4 This week, our team has been hard at work. The build and electrical teams have been working on prototyping various components of the robot and piecing together the electrical board. Design team has been working on the frame and gear piece design…

To start our seventh week of build season, DNA began in-person practices! During practices this week the build team worked on putting the turret of the robot back together as well as fixing the wiring on the robot. The programming sub-team worked on getting macros to work for the autonomous portion of the Infinite Recharge…

Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) FIRST Robotics Team 4009 competed at the first annual Great Northern Regional held in Grand Forks, North Dakota. On the first day of qualification matches, Friday March 2nd, DNA won 6 of our 7 matches, placing 2nd overall. On Saturday March 3rd DNA competed in 4 more matches, ending in 10th…

Good evening! After an exciting weekend, DNA Robotics has finally completed its participation in the Central Illinois Regional. We ranked 9th in The Blue Alliance’s OPR, and made it all the way to the semifinals alongside alliance captain 3258 and team 111 – finishing that out with the alliance ranked 3rd. Qualification score was 89.93…

On November, 5th, 2016, Denfeld Nation Automation, Marshall Topper Bots, and Lakeview Christian Academy Lions Pride all demonstrated their teams robot during the Mini Maker Fair.

On December 3rd, teams from all around the area went to Itasca Community College for a day of robotics training seminars. Students learned programming, electrical wiring, and other aspects of robotics that will help them as they prepare to tackle this year’s FIRST Robotics challenge! Our team presented two classes: Drive Trains and Transmissions, and…