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At our last full pre-season meeting on Monday December 19, all of the subteams got to show off what they’ve been doing since mid-October. First up was CAD. They are working in Solidworks as their primary drafting tool and they showed off their prototypes and actual...

As our 2012 Build season continues to grow nearer, an event heralded by the countdown on the blog of FRC director Bill Miller, subteams continue their preparations for its arrival. The Green Machine’s animators have put their fullest efforts into a safety animation...

It’s truly beginning to look a lot like Robotics competition season!  At Prior Lake High School Saturday, November 19, The Green Machine, KING TeC, and Blue Twilight co-hosted the 2nd annual Minne-Mini Regional, an event aimed at creating a “mini” version of...

As the FIRST Robotics season approaches in a matter of weeks with both a looming and invigorating certainty, Edina’s Green Machine members are gearing up and training up to prepare for another fun and exciting season. In the last few weeks, I have been...

Feeling a bit unsure about how to build a robot for the 2012 competitions? Or maybe over a long and lazy summer you just forgot how? While it never seems all that easy when faced with the new game challenge, our team’s two co-captains recently gave a step-by-step...

Looking for an outside-of-school activity that is totally out-of-the-box? Come one, come all, and check out Edina’s own FIRST Robotics team! Are you handy with tools, or do you want to learn how to use the right power tool to build? The Green Machine has a...

Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816 was one of the many FIRST teams that experienced the exciting atmosphere of the FIRST Championships, held for the first time in 2011 in St. Louis, MO. On Sunday, August 14th, a national television audience...

The June 2011 edition of the TV program "In Edina" features a segment on FIRST Team 1816- The Green Machine. Emily B., 2011 Captain, and Emily C., 2011 Safety Captain, discuss the nature of the FIRST Robotics competition and the work that goes...

It seems like every other sentence uttered by an 1816 team member this week started or contained the phrase "when we’re in St. Louis." We are all counting down the minutes until we leave Wednesday for the FIRST Robotics World Championships in St. Louis, MO....

This 2011 LOGO Motion season is going by much too fast. We are already done with our two Minnesota regionals (Lake Superior and North Star) and are just weeks away from joining the 350-plus FRC teams that have earned a spot in the World Championships in St. Louis. Our...

Team 1816 has finished unpacking from our successful competition at the new Lake Superior Regional, Duluth, and is now re-packing and re-stocking for the North Star Regional at Mariucci Arena, March 31 – April 2.  The new Lake Superior Regional was a success,...

FIRST Team 1816 is in Duluth this weekend, March 10 -12, 2011, for the inaugural FIRST Lake Superior Regional robotics competition. We are all anxiously awaiting the first match of this regional, as well as the many more that will soon follow. The...