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At the North Star Regional, FIRST Team 1816 won the Regional Chairman’s Award, the highest-honor FIRST confers on teams. This award, as FIRST states, “honors the team that, in the judges’ estimation, best represents a model for other...

Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816 capped an amazing weekend at the 2012 North Star Regional by winning the Regional Chairman’s Award, FIRST’s highest honor, and earning a ticket to the Championships in St. Louis! Not only that but our 2012 Robot, Zephyr, proved to be a...

Next stop on FIRST Team 1816’s tour, the Minnesota North Star Regional! The Green Machine will be attending the regional along with 62 other teams on Thursday March 29th through Saturday March 31st. This event will be taking place at the Mariucci Arena,...

FIRST Team 1816 - The Green Machine was busy last weekend. We went to the Lake Superior Regional, Duluth, where we competed, continued to modify our robot, Zephyr, as well as helped a lot of other FRC teams with their robots! There were 64 FIRST teams...

It’s down to hours now before FIRST Team 1816-The Green Machine will take part in Minnesota's Lake Superior Regional. Starting with practice rounds on Thursday, March 8th, the competition continues through Saturday March 10th. With 65...

The 6-week robot build has ended and our 2012 robot is loaded all snug in its giant plastic bag.  Regional competitions are starting right away and there’s just enough time for us to pack up our tools. Before we hit the road for the Lake Superior...

Saturday, February 25th surely has to be “the” day when The Green Machine really did it all. A third of our team met with our animation mentor, Professor Thomas Gibbons, at the University of Minnesota; another third was present at The Works’ engineering-centric...

February 21 loomed large on our calendar for six weeks now, and it was a day that we looked forward to with a mixture of glad (we could get more sleep!) and sad (have to say goodbye to Zephyr until Duluth). But, making us feel better that our 2012 build was coming to...

FIRST, make way for Zephyr! On Saturday, February 18, The Green Machine went to Eagan High School along with 15 other Minnesota teams for the Blue Twilight-hosted pre-lock-up day scrimmage. FRC Team 1816 got to see Zephyr in action for the first time and she worked...

Eagan, here we come! On Saturday, February 18, The Green Machine will pack up Zephyr, its 2012 Robot, and along with FRC teams from all over Minnesota, will head down the highway to the home of Team 2220-Blue Twilight for a day of robot driving practice. The event at...

For one Saturday afternoon each build season, The Green Machine puts down its tools and welcomes the community to come see first-hand what we’re building for the FIRST competitions.  On Saturday, Jan 21st FIRST Team 1816 hosted the annual...

The 2012 season has officially begun! On the 7th of January, 91 Minnesota FIRST Robotics teams gathered at the University of Minnesota for the Kickoff of the 2012 season.  The challenge for this season is called “Rebound Rumble.” For this game, a...