Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Dinner & Silent Auction on Thursday, April 14th. It was a huge success! The team served over 350 people and were able to sell many items in our silent auction. This made a big dent in the amount of money that we need to raise to go to the FIRST World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri. We appreciate all your support — our team couldn’t do it without you!
Sincerely,
DNA Robotics
FIRST Robotics Team 4009
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…
January 27th, 2024 Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Week Three Update Greetings, During DNA’s third week of the FRC competition, significant strides were made. The team’s prototypes were tested and reworked, to allow for better playability and design. With the drive base all wired up the programmers were able to start implementing code and testing out…
It’s that time of the year everyone! This past Saturday the 2019 FIRST Robotics Competition game was revealed by a kickoff stream that our team viewed at UMD. This year’s challenge is “DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE sponsored by the Boeing Company”. In this challenge robots are tasked with delivering cargo and hatch panels to either rocket…
Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) FIRST Robotics Team 4009 competed at the Lake Superior Regional in Duluth, Minnesota March 9th and 10th, 2018. It was the team’s second regional in as many weeks after participating in the Great Northern Regional in North Dakota last weekend. The team leveraged its experience to consistently show leadership and poise…
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…
Last Sunday our team went to the Itasca Community College for their yearly scrimmage. Along with ten other teams, DNA was able to practice driving on a field before competition next week. Unlike many other sports, the field changes every year and the majority of FIRST teams do not have access to a field. With…