Soaring Eagles!

On January 9th, the 2021 FIRST Robotics Competition Season Kickoff looked drastically different from past years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students watched the live stream from their homes to learn about this year’s challenges, and then met over Zoom to further discuss the challenges. The FIRST Robotics Competition teams were given three challenges to…

The Denfeld Robotics team (DNA) is headed back to the state tournament for the first time since they finished second in the state championship in 2016. Bolstered by an impressive undefeated run through the qualification rounds at the Lake Superior Regional, DNA finished seventh in overall state ranking points. The top 36 teams in Minnesota…

During the fourth week of their build season, DNA continued to work on the Game Design Challenge. As DNA starts to narrow down the game elements that they will use in their game, they have been able to start structuring the elements. This is an important part in the game design process because DNA has…

February 11th, 2024   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Week Five Update  Greetings, DNA’s fifth week of build season was full of progress and testing. The ARC Field was set up in the Hermantown Middle School on Saturday and Sunday. Allowing the team to travel to Hermantown and practice on a field with fellow FRC teams, getting…

April 7th, 2025   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Road To Worlds Update Greetings,  DNA was part of a special group of teams this year. They worked hard this entire season and received some very exciting news this Monday morning: DNA is going to Worlds! The whole team was thrilled to learn the news that their efforts…

March 11th, 2023   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week Nine Greetings Sponsors, DNA’s Build sub-team primarily focused on checking over their robot, making sure wires were connected, nothing had broken, fixing the swerve modules, and continuing to think up design changes or ideas to make their robot more efficient. The Programming sub-team started creating…