Lake Superior/Northern Lights Schedule

On behalf of DNA team 4009, this is the first of our weekly updates to keep our supporters apprised of our season progress.  In the first week of build season, our team has been busy designing the robot for this year’s challenge, RAPID REACT Presented by the Boeing Company. During the first week of build…

April 7th, 2025   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Road To Worlds Update Greetings,  DNA was part of a special group of teams this year. They worked hard this entire season and received some very exciting news this Monday morning: DNA is going to Worlds! The whole team was thrilled to learn the news that their efforts…

February 20th, 2024   Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) Week Six Update  Greetings, The sixth week was a big milestone for DNA, they attended ICC which stands for Itasca Community College. 11 teams traveled to the Itasca Community College to partake in practice and friendly competition. At the event a few volunteers were asked to be judges,…

Hey! As we’re getting ready to head to the Central Illinois Regional in Peoria, we’d like to thank our sponsors for their support and everyone who signed up on our SignUpGenius form to donate food for the trip! A webstream of the Central Illinois Regional is available at the Illinois FIRST website, here. Check it out during…

Hey everyone! We will be hosting a Lego Robotics Camp this summer! Students will learn to design, build, and program a robot to perform different tasks using LEGO Mindstorms EV3 sets. Anyone is welcome to join this program with or without experience. Our team members will be there to assist the students as they need. Please…

This week we have accomplished another huge milestone; our robot has entered the final stage of build. In order to complete our robot, the build subteams have been tirelessly wiring our robot as well as refining the robot components to perfection. The programming students have been working hard to write code for targeting and tweaking…