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Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816, The Green Machine, is pleased to welcome Minneapolis-based Wanner Engineering Inc. as its newest corporate sponsor. The company, headed by Bill Wanner, an Edina High School alumnus, donated $2,500 toward defraying the team’s...

Three hundred fifty avid FIRST Robotics team members, mentors, and volunteers gathered on Saturday, December 8, at the Eagan, Minn., headquarters of Lockheed Martin for Minnesota Splash. Attendees enjoyed a series of presentations and seminars covering much...

  The fall months are not just leisure time for the teams participating in the FIRST competition. It is a time for all of the teams, nationwide, to gather all their strength for the competition in the spring. New members need to be broken in, money has...

Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816, The Green Machine, will help host a first-ever regional wide FIRST event, the Minnesota Splash. On Saturday, December 8th, more than 30 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams from all over Minnesota are...

One of the most difficult things about starting up a new FIRST Robotics team is figuring out not only how to build a robot in six short weeks, but how to find mentors and corporate sponsors, and what to expect when your team arrives at a regional...

The Green Machine held a very successful team fundraiser at the Noodles & Co. restaurant in Edina on Saturday, October 27. A few team members arrived at 11 AM to set up our 2007 robot on the restaurant's patio, as well as place information about our team...

Come show your support for Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816 by eating lunch or taking home a dinner-to-go at Noodles on Saturday, October 27. The team is hosting a fundraising event at Noodles, 6531 York Avenue South, in the Southdale Square shopping center...

Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816, The Green Machine, will demonstrate its 2007 competition robot during the Edina School District’s open house at the East Campus, on Sunday, October 14th. The East Campus includes two school facilities, Normandale Elementary...

Medtronic, Inc. is supporting Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816, The Green Machine with a generous donation of $10,000 to help underwrite the registration fees and expenses necessary to compete in the 2008 FIRSTRobotics competitions. Dr. Stephen N....

This summer, The Green Machine held a very successful team spirit/car wash fundraising event at the Holiday Station on Interlachen and Vernon, Edina.  Team members assembled around 10 AM, then washed cars, usually in frenzied bursts, to raise money for the...

Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816, The Green Machine, was selected as one of 20 teams to join the 2007 FIRSTPresident's Circle. To be considered for the President's Circle, teams had to submit a video of no more than two minutes in length explaining what...

This summer, Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816-The Green Machine is taking part in a series of training sessions with Dunwoody College of Technology, Minneapolis, faculty to train FIRST members before the build season begins. In the first of these sessions, twelve team...