Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816 had the opportunity to entertain a few very important guests and show off what they had accomplished so far. Dr. Ric Dressen, Edina Superintendent of Schools; Jenni Norlin-Weaver, of the Department of Teaching and Learning; Mary Manderfeld, Edina High School principal, and Bert Ledder, of the Edina Board of Education, were given a private tour of the team’s Honeywell build facility, located in a warehouse in Minnetonka.
On their tour, these guests were given a demonstration of both the current and past robots’ abilities by the team’s lead student engineer Kristofer L., well as provided with an in-depth explanation of the new Hydrogen Fuel Cell pilot project from subteam lead Lauren L. The Robotics team also strutted their stuff for another audience on Monday. A crew from KARE-11’s “Whatever” show filmed the team in action and interviewed team members for an upcoming broadcast, tentatively scheduled for late February. Edina Robotics Team 1816 is currently three weeks into a six-week build season. Preparations are well underway to compete at the Wisconsin Regional Competition in early March, where the team hopes to build an alliance strong enough to defend its first-place finish of a year ago