State Competition – Submitted By: Piper Sondreal Our busy day started bright and early arriving at the William’s Arena at 7:00am to register our volunteers and get in some more robot work before Qualification matches started. At the opening ceremony, a tribute was given to team 1816 “The Green Machine” to honor their new induction […]
World Champs- Detroit- 2019 Travel Home Day
Article Submitted by: Cammi Cain After a long ride home from Detroit, we were so happy to come home and we hope we have made our communities proud! We dropped off team 876 in Erskine and team 3277 in Thief River Falls. Badger team 3750 and our team – 5172 went on to be greeted […]
World Championships-Detroit-Competition Days 2019
Article Submitted by: Piper Sondreal Thursday Today was filled with rigorous competition that kept our drive team engaged in the qualification matches. Interstellar sported some new bling throughout the day: a custom made Minnesota “UFFDA” sticker that wowed the crowd! In our first qualification match, we were able to complete a rocket and climb to […]
World Champs- Load In Day-2019
We finally made it to Detroit on two different buses with a mix of four different teams. One of the buses left at 6:45 from Indiana and went straight to the Cobo Center to set up and the luckier bus left at 7:45 to go to the Fords Museum. The museum was filled with many […]
World Champs-Travel Day-2019
Article Submitted By: Ryan, Kyle, and ThorT The Long Road Ahead Today we began our long journey to the FIRST Championship in Detroit, Michigan. We are traveling with 3 other teams on 2 buses: 3750 (Badger), 3277 (Thief River Falls), and 876 (Hatton-Northwood, ND). We had packed everything under the buses the day before so […]