During the Freshman orientation DNA team members were able to meet the incoming freshmen and tell them about robotics. Several robots were driving around for the freshmen to see and team members were telling the kids about the various roles that people play on our team. Our team was very excited by the interest that was shown by the incoming freshman.
February 9th, 2017 Greetings everyone, Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week 5 This week our build and electrical has been hard at work finalizing our robot frame. We have finished the Woodie Flowers Award and the Entrepreneurship Award as well. Our programming team has been experimenting with vision processing. Our graphic design team has…
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…
On December 13th, 2022 members of our team had the opportunity to visit the 148th Fighter Wing and tour some of their facilities. We enjoyed learning more about how the 148th operated and the opportunity’s available with them. If you would like to know more about the 148th Fighter Wing you can look at their…
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…
On August 6, our team did a demonstration at the Morgan Park National Night Out celebration. Attendees of the event had a great time interacting with our robots and learning about how they are built and operated. By the end of the night we had a line of kids who couldn’t wait to get their…
Our team suffered a major setback this week due to school being canceled for three days in a row due to the extreme cold caused by the polar vortex. We were not able to hold practice on these days and therefore could not continue robot construction. Instead, team members worked on the Chairman’s presentation and…