2022 Northern Lights Finalists

“The Green Machine” made tremendous strides at the FIRST Northern Lights Regional, Duluth, MN competition the first weekend in March. Despite a rocky start, we made it to the finals and placed second in the event. Along the way, we encountered a lot of...

Onward to Duluth

“Wrapping up, on to the competition” “Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong” “We win some, We lose some”   As we approach our first regional competition (Northern Lights Regional, Duluth, MN) since March 2020,  the team completed a simulated...

Projecting Goals Helps Keep Us on Task

As we head into our 4th week of build for this year’s competition “Rapid React”, Team 1816 has made tremendous strides towards accomplishing objectives set at the beginning of Kickoff. New this season, we are using a MIRO board to display our goals for each...

Rapid React Kickoff

Being the first in person kickoff since 2020, Green Machine team members – veteran and new– came excited to share their ideas for the newest competition, Rapid React. While we all watched the game reveal “at home,” there was homework to be done before our...