Robot Drive Practice

Week two of build season has been eventful and productive. The build team has finalized our design for the shooter portion of our robot to score in this year’s game. All of our shooter prototypes have been extremely successful, but our latest iteration has really dialed in the accuracy and consistency! The programming team has…

April 1st, 2023   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Worlds Preparations Week 1 Greetings Sponsors, As DNA starts preparations to go to World’s they are working on reaching their monetary goal. The students are reaching out to businesses to acquire sponsorships or donations and are having moderate success. If you have any business opportunities DNA…

January 23th, 2024   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Week Two Update  Greetings, During the second week of DNA’s robotics project, significant milestones were achieved. The electrical sub-team successfully wired the robot drive base, bringing it closer to the point of being fully drivable. Simultaneously, the team’s safety captain diligently updated the safety binder, incorporating the latest…

Hey! Pictures from the Lake Superior Regional have been added to the DNA Photos page! Head over there now to check them out!

For the first time in what seems like forever, a live in-person MSHSL State Competition was back!  Based on their successful run at the Lake Superior Regional event, Denfeld’s DNA robotics team was very excited to qualify as one of the 36 teams invited for the State Championship competition. This is a huge accomplishment as…

Good evening! Even though we had some mechanical and programming issues, DNA has held on to the 9th place spot. We’ve sorted the issues out, though, and are ready for what tomorrow will bring. Our regional was also graced with the presence of the founder of FIRST, Dean Kamen. He autographed items, took selfies with…