News

Having returned from FIRST Championships at the end of April, members of 1816 are scrambling to catch up on sleep, school, and everything else that was suspended for robotics. This year, with 30 new members, we brought our largest contingent of team members-ever...

It was 10 years ago that Edina High School junior Chris Miller founded the oldest enduring FIRST Robotics Competition team in the State of Minnesota. Neighbors and friends at school looked on with amusement as Miller and a handful of Edina students, who...

Spring fever set in early to The Green Machine, as we’ve been working hard this month to get ready for the 10,000 Lakes Regional. Team 1816 is excited to return to Williams Arena, where we helped launch the FIRST Minnesota Regional Competitions in 2008!...

The Green Machine gathered at South View Middle School on March 21 with our 2014 robot, Zeke, as part of an outreach effort to support Edina FIRST Tech Challenge teams “Piece of Cake” and “Easy as Pi” during a special fundraiser and screening...

When we looked at the calendar with the weeks stretching between our FIRST competition in Duluth at the end of February to our second regional competition at Williams Arena April 3 – 4, we thought about how best to use this time. In Edina, March is the...

Hello Sponsors, Friends and Fans of The Green Machine: We are pleased and excited to report that FRC Team 1816’s promotion of STEM education and our support of other FIRST teams was recognized with the Engineering Inspiration Award at the Week...

FIRST Team 1816- The Green Machine is currently in a frenzy of activity to finish our robot (Zebruh) before the end of the 6-week "Build-Season." This year’s FRC game challenge is called Recycle Rush, where alliances of three robots will race against...

Team 1816—The Green Machine is pleased to announce that it will be a featured presenter at the Edina Education Fund's "Show & Tell" luncheon on Monday, February 2, 2015 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM at the Church of St. Patrick in Edina. The Edina Education Fund's...

Ten years ago, The Green Machine began building its first-ever FIRST robot, taking over the kitchen of founding captain Chris Miller. Since then, we’ve expanded from 14 members to 50; our STEM outreach extends worldwide, and we’ve firmly...

Already the days of the 2015 FIRST Robotics robot build are flying by! Hard to believe that it will be a matter of weeks before we zip our 2015 robot ZEBRAH into its regulation giant plastic bag to head to the Lake Superior Regional. On January 3, it was the...

Have you ever wondered how to get your first-grade student involved with FIRST Robotics? Or maybe you would like to see robots in head-to-head competition? For the first time ever, you can see three FIRST Robotics programs in one day, on campus, in...

It’s been a busy four weeks, barely time to capture all of the news and new things.  On November 15, we staged our second-annual Robot Day at the Minnesota Children's Museum to educate the ten-and under crowd about Robotics. Joining us were Teams...