Innovation in Control Award!

On January 7th, 2023 the game for the 2023 season was released. Our team went to UMD along with several other northland teams. After watching the kickoff video we went to Elim Lutheran Church with the robotics team from Esko to look over the rulebook and come up with strategies and potential robot designs. On…

Week three of our build season has been very productive. Our game design team has been working hard to finalize game elements for the FIRST Game Design Challenge. We also continued to make sure that the game was simple enough for first years teams to be able to complete, but also challenge veteran teams. As…

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…

January 21st, 2023   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for Week Two Greetings Sponsors, During DNA’s second week of build season, many important tasks were accomplished. The robot build sub-team put together the robot frame, drive train, and worked with the CAD sub-team to finish making a manipulator in CAD and was able to complete a…

Wow, what exciting Regional action!  The finals were decided by a mere 3 points!  The alliance of Team 2526 – Crimson Robotics from Maple Grove, Team 4818 – The Herd from West Fargo, and Team 93 – New Apple Corps from Appleton took top honors in two hotly contested finals matches.  They beat Team 2052…

[metaslider id=3846] On April 12th, we volunteered at the Laura MacArthur STEM Day. During this event we demonstrated our robot to elementary students as well as engaging them through discussion. We also volunteered at booths featuring different scientific experiments for the students to learn more STEM. Some of the booths we volunteered at included launching…