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“The Green Machine'' made tremendous strides at the FIRST Northern Lights Regional, Duluth, MN competition the first weekend in March. Despite a rocky start, we made it to the finals and placed second in the event. Along the way, we encountered a lot of challenges but...

“Wrapping up, on to the competition” “Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong” “We win some, We lose some”   As we approach our first regional competition (Northern Lights Regional, Duluth, MN) since March 2020,  the team completed a simulated...

As we head into our 4th week of build for this year's competition “Rapid React”, Team 1816 has made tremendous strides towards accomplishing objectives set at the beginning of Kickoff. New this season, we are using a MIRO board to display our goals for each week. Via...

Being the first in person kickoff since 2020, Green Machine team members - veteran and new– came excited to share their ideas for the newest competition, Rapid React. While we all watched the game reveal “at home,” there was homework to be done before our afternoon...

It’s been a busy four months for our Edina FIRST Tech Challenge teams. During the 2020-2021 FTC season, we were unable to meet as teams in-person, but once school began this fall, we returned to in-person build sessions and tournaments. Our 2021-2022 FTC teams overall...

COVID-19 put a roadblock in the hands-on experience of learning to code. To counteract this dilemma, our software subteam began using “Code with Me,” an interactive, collaborative tool specifically for coding, similar to using Google Document and Google Meet programs....

In recent past seasons, Edina Robotics has had a drop off in the number of girls who participated in our FIRST Tech Challenge pipeline to “The Green Machine”. In an attempt to increase our recruitment of girls and make their transition seamless, we hosted a “Girls in...

On November 20th, FRC 1816 competed in the Minne-Mini, an off-season scrimmage event at Prior Lake High School. In the month since the Minnesota Robotics Invitational, our robot fabrication subteam undertook a number of tasks to get ready for this final play of the...

 How do you teach two classes of rookies to build a robot in one fall pre-season? COVID-19 restrictions kept us from having full robot-build sessions in the 2021 school year. We needed to figure out a build challenge that would get everyone up to speed. Our...

On October 15th, our team members demonstrated our robots to Tesla employees in their Brooklyn Park location. We spoke to the employees about The Green Machine, FIRST, and even let them drive the robot. Outreach events like these expand our connections and demonstrate...

In a season when everything that we knew as “regular competition” was performed remotely, FRC Team 1816 is proud to announce that we are officially the skills competition winner in the INFINITE RECHARGE At Home - Gallium Division. This year, teams were tasked with...

  The 2021 Minnesota STEM Advocacy Day brought together STEM and FIRST organizations through a Facebook Live event hosted by Senators Jim Carlson (DFL, Eagan) and Melisa Franzen (DFL, Edina).   This year’s remote event coincided with National Robotics Week,...