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February 11th, 2023   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week Five  Greetings Sponsors, Many objectives progressed during DNA’s fifth week of build season. The Robot Build sub-team finalized the design of the competition robot, they also attached a hard stop to the robot, finalized the arm attachment, and tested the robot at Cloquet on Saturday…

Good evening! This year is the first year that team DNA has been able to go to two different regionals in one year. Our first was the Lake Superior Regional, and our second is the Central Illinois Regional in Peoria, Illinois. The poster Media captain Matt K. submitted for the event’s poster contest received an…

January, 12th, 2017 Greetings Everyone, Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week 1 This week, we were given the challenge for the 2017 FIRST Robotics Competition STEAMWORKS. We have included a link to this year’s challenge here. Our first week consisted of developing a general idea on how our robot is going to function, prototyping…

Last night we had our annual Robot Reveal to display our progress on the robot to the public. We had a great time discussing this year’s game and our robot capabilities with our family, friends, sponsors, and other community members. We also revealed our robot’s name “Boreas”.  Boreas is the name of the Greek God…

This past weekend our team had the opportunity to compete at the Minnesota North Star Regional in La Crosse, WI. Our team loved being able to meet and compete against all the other amazing teams at this regional. We were the first pick of alliance 6 and placed 14th in overall rankings. Our alliance was…

February 4th, 2023   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week Four Greetings Sponsors, During DNA’s fourth week of build season many goals were reached. The Robot Build sub-team lowered the robot arm to test a different manipulator design, in addition to that the build sub-team worked with the CAD sub-team to create a robot wrist…