Kickoff

We have been working extremely hard through our last week of  build season with Stop Build Day being only four days away. We finished constructing all of our game piece manipulators and wired power to all the motors. With our robot built, we have been testing and tuning our code. We added encoders and a…

In the first week of build season, our team has been busy designing the robot for this year’s challenge, INFINITE RECHARGE Powered by Star Wars.  Our build subteam has been working hard to prototype the shooter, electrical boards, and the control board manipulator necessary to be successful in this year’s game. They have also finally …

March 28th, 2023   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Update for the North Star Regional  Greetings Sponsors, DNA did amazing at the North Star Regional this past weekend! They exhibited many FRC values and demonstrated what their robot, μtemis, (pronounced mutemis) could do. After the first day of tough matches, their Safety Captain won the Safety All-Star…

It’s official — Denfeld High School’s DNA Robotics is going to the World Championships in Houston, Texas! Out of thousands of teams, we’ve earned our spot among the best.  Now we have just a few days to raise $46,668 to get there. Here’s the deal: Our high school team is 100% community-supported. We exist and…

Good evening! After an exciting weekend, DNA Robotics has finally completed its participation in the Central Illinois Regional. We ranked 9th in The Blue Alliance’s OPR, and made it all the way to the semifinals alongside alliance captain 3258 and team 111 – finishing that out with the alliance ranked 3rd. Qualification score was 89.93…

On January 6th the new game for the FIRST Robotics Competition was released. Our game for this year is called Crescendo. Despite bad weather and poor road conditions our team went to Esko, MN to have kickoff with Subzero Robotics. After watching the game reveal our teams came together to discuss the game and come…