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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Article Submitted By: Piper Sondreal Our day began with a strong start; after 62 qualification matches prior to this morning, we were ranked 6th out 55 teams. We were set to compete in the 63rd qualification match this morning, and with a triumphant win, we were bumped up to the 2nd place ranking spot. After […]

Article Submitted by: Issie Brockhouse, Christian Wahl, Conner Wojchowski, Ray Tarala, and John Novacek. Buses were rolling at 7:45 for a very eventful day. We started off the day of matches with 2 unfortunate losses. Our climber had metal shavings in the lead screws and jammed the mechanism for the first match, and in another […]