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The FIRST Kickoff is the event where FIRST reveals the challenge game the robots will play during the spring competitions. Last year, the two Minnesota teams trekked to a Milwaukee suburb to attend the simulcast event. This year, due to the growth...

With the official FIRST robotics build season only a few weeks away, Edina Robotics Team 1816 – The Green Machine members are working at a frantic pace to get ready. Not only are pre-build preparations for the mechanics of the robot necessary, but corporate funding...

Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816 – The Green Machine was awarded a $6,000 second-year participation grant by the NASA Robotics Alliance Project. This regional challenge grant will enable the team to participate in the Wisconsin Regional, March 8 – 10, in...

Edina Robotics Team 1816 -The Green Machine is one of 30 FIRST Robotics teams selected to pilot an alternative energy/fuel cell project this year. The program, coincidentally enough, is called the “Fuel Cell ‘Green Machine’ Pilot program.” The challenge to...

The Green Machine invites you to download the latest newletter, highlighting the team's outreach efforts. Our participation in the recent STEM Summit and contacts with area schools have had positive results, with another Minnesota team already registered and...

In an effort to encourage the formation of other FIRST(For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics teams in the Twin Cities area, Edina Robotics took its show on the road to Southwest High School in Minneapolis on October 11th. Seven team...

Edina Robotics was sponsored in 2006 by: Medtronic Inc., NASA, Edina Education Fund, the law firm of Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner, and Kluth, EHS Parent Council, Best Buy, Barr Engineering, Spanlink, Ergotron, Jerry's Enterprises, Handy Pro, Big Image Corp., Coooper...

The Green Machine’s award-winning 2006 robot made its debut appearance in the Edina High School Homecoming Parade October 6. Controlled remotely by team members riding in the back of a green decorated pick up truck, the robot briefly made its own way south on Wooddale...

Edina Robotics will participate in the Edina High School Homecoming Parade on Friday, October 6 at 4:30. The Green Machine's award-winning 2006 robot will make its own way south on Wooddale Avenue from 50th Street controlled remotely by team members riding in the back...

Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816, The Green Machine, exhibited at the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Summit for High Schoolers at the Science Museum of Minnesota on September 30, 2006. Over 1,000 high school students, parents, and educators...

Edina Robotics FIRST Team 1816, The Green Machine, has been invited to exhibit at the STEM Summit for high school students on September 30 at the Science Museum of Minnesota, 10:00-2:00. (STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Math.) The team will have its...

Les Kuivanen (right), vice chair-community projects, Honeywell Retirees Volunteer Program, personally delivered a $1,500 donation to Edina Robotics Team 1816-The Green Machine. Accepting on behalf of the team are captain Chris Miller (left) and Mary Manderfeld,...