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With the build season halfway over, it was time for the Green Machine’s annual open house.  Each year, FIRST Team 1816 hosts a day for the community to come and see what our FIRST robotics team is all about, in addition to viewing the progress...

Saturday, January 26 is open house day for The Green Machine. Please join us for our 7th annual SPARK Day event, where we welcome our sponsors, alumni, parents, volunteers, school, and community members to our workshop at Edina High School. Yes, it’s the middle...

We wouldn’t be FIRST Team 1816 without the generous support of our many corporate sponsors and contributors. As we look forward to another successful season, The Green Machine thanks our team’s sponsorsfor underwriting our competition, registration,...

Well before FIRST releases the new game challenge in January, The Green Machine sets itself a list of tasks that must be done. Topping the list: Teaching our own team’s rookies as many skills as possible, while also reaching out across Minnesota...

Immerse yourself on Saturday, December 8 at the sixth annual Minnesota SPLASH, Minnesota’s version of a crash course in everything FIRST Robotics. Not only is this The Green Machine’s largest outreach event of the year, but this one-day event tries to pack...

On Saturday, November 17, FIRST Robotics Teams will gather for the 3rd annual “Minne-Mini Regional” at Prior Lake High School. This is a great opportunity for teams to play their 2012 robots one last time and to give rookies a feel for what...

Saturday, October 27th is a big day for The Green Machine and Jerry's Hardware in Edina. For the first-time ever, two of our award-winning robots will make a special, one-day appearance at Jerry’s Do-it Best Hardware, 5115 Vernon Avenue S., Edina. We will be there the...

Do you want to be that cool kid who builds robots? Then stop on our table at the EHS Activities Fair on Wednesday, September 12 and come hear more on Monday, Sept. 17th, 6:30 pm in the Community Room at Edina High School! We will go over the basics of being on...

Nothing can top a day at the Minnesota State Fair, unless your FIRST team gets to spend three full days there. During the 2012 Fair, 1816-The Green Machine competed twice in the State Fair Robotics competitions and was one of many demonstrations and exhibits...

The very last competition of our 2012 FIRST Robotics season and the first-ever Minnesota State High School League – FIRST Robotics Championship took place on Saturday, May 19th. The Green Machine along with the one, the only, Zephyr,...

For four incredible days at the end of April, FIRST Team 1816 – The Green Machine was in St. Louis for the FRC World Championships! Participating in the premier FIRSTRobotics event, with 400 teams from the U.S., Canada, Israel, Mexico and Australia, is to be...

It’s here at last. The Green Machine is heading to St. Louis, MO for World Championships! Taking place April 26 – 28 at the Edward Jones Dome, this competition by far is the largest of any competition we have been to this year. There will be more than...