Soaring Eagles!

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…

On December 3rd, teams from all around the area went to Itasca Community College for a day of robotics training seminars. Students learned programming, electrical wiring, and other aspects of robotics that will help them as they prepare to tackle this year’s FIRST Robotics challenge! Our team presented two classes: Drive Trains and Transmissions, and…

Good evening! Team 4009 had an excellent experience this weekend at the Gitchi-Gummi Mini Regional hosted by team 2512, Duluth East Daredevils. We placed 2nd overall at the regional as an alliance captain alongside team 2175, the Fighting Calculators, and team 3102, TNT.

Hey! DNA Robotics started off the day with the third qualifier match alongside teams 2481 and 5442, scoring 129 points. The 12th qualifier, DNA’s second of the day, scored 56 points, and the 16th qualifier scored 88. In Quals 21, the final match before lunch, DNA scored 45 points. Our next match, coming after the…

This week we missed another day of practice due to excessive snow. Fortunately, we had anticipated this day off and brought parts with us that we could weld offsite. The CAD sub-team worked hard through the snow day to complete our robot design in SolidWorks. We also used this snow day plan the last two…

If you didn’t already know our team is currently at Boise Idaho for our Robotics Regional. We left Minnesota at 2:45 on Tuesday and arrived at Boise Idaho on Wednesday at 4:00pm CT. Some of our Robotic students and mentors took some pictures during the bus ride of scenery. Here is some of those pictures. Also…