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Good morning! Team 4009 is now in the summer section of the year, and our Lego Robotics camp has occurred. DNA Robotics will now be focusing on marketing, the upcoming Gitchi-Gummi Mini Regional hosted by team 2512, and preparing for the upcoming season.

In the first week of build season, our team has been busy designing the robot for this year’s challenge, DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE Presented by Boeing. We prototyped a lifting mechanism and began CAD designing the robot frame. Our programming team has successfully implemented all of the brand new software on our prototyping robot. In field…

Denfeld Nation Automation (DNA) FIRST Robotics Team 4009 competed at the Lake Superior Regional in Duluth, Minnesota on March 6th and 7th, 2020. This regional consisted of 63 teams from all over the midwest. This was DNA’s first regional competition of the season. DNA had an amazing showing this past weekend, winning one of FIRST’s…

On August 6, our team did a demonstration at the Morgan Park National Night Out celebration. Attendees of the event had a great time interacting with our robots and learning about how they are built and operated. By the end of the night we had a line of kids who couldn’t wait to get their…

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 September 14, our team brought two robots to the 148th Fighter Wing Family Day Event. Attendees of the event were able to interact with our robots by catching balls and “feeding” them back to the robot. Some brave kids even worked up the courage to drive the robots! Whether playing with or controlling the…