by Edina Robotics | Nov 22, 2021 | 2021 - Archive, Blog
How do you teach two classes of rookies to build a robot in one fall pre-season? COVID-19 restrictions kept us from having full robot-build sessions in the 2021 school year. We needed to figure out a build challenge that would get everyone up to speed. Our...
by Edina Robotics | Nov 8, 2021 | 2021 - Archive, Blog
On October 15th, our team members demonstrated our robots to Tesla employees in their Brooklyn Park location. We spoke to the employees about The Green Machine, FIRST, and even let them drive the robot. Outreach events like these expand our connections and demonstrate...
by Edina Robotics | Apr 22, 2021 | 2021 - Archive, Blog
In a season when everything that we knew as “regular competition” was performed remotely, FRC Team 1816 is proud to announce that we are officially the skills competition winner in the INFINITE RECHARGE At Home – Gallium Division. This year, teams were tasked...
by Edina Robotics | Apr 13, 2021 | 2021 - Archive, Blog
The 2021 Minnesota STEM Advocacy Day brought together STEM and FIRST organizations through a Facebook Live event hosted by Senators Jim Carlson (DFL, Eagan) and Melisa Franzen (DFL, Edina). This year’s remote event coincided with National Robotics Week,...
by Edina Robotics | Jan 16, 2021 | 2021 - Archive, Blog
Hello, We hope you are doing well. Although Minnesota is shut down in many ways because of the pandemic, “The Green Machine” continues to work together online. Our subteams are moving forward, with ideas for a new competition pit, new ways to write our...
by Edina Robotics | Nov 1, 2020 | 2021 - Archive, Blog
I first wrote a post for this site back in 2013. I had just returned from a trip to Israel as a freshman Army ROTC cadet and remember being surprised how many things had happened since I had graduated high school in 2012. It’s now been 8 years since I was competing as...
