2024 Season

This year, our team aimed to go even farther and we've made great progress. During the preseason, we once again attended the invitational at the Roseville Area High School, where people new to our team learned how a FIRST Robotics competition works. Our build team practiced building a mecanum drive in the preseason, learned about making a stronger electrical board, and built climbers to climb onto the chain. The programming team made code for the preseason mecanum drive and worked on other ongoing code projects. Additionally, members of the team put together two 3D printers and learned the basics of CAD. 

Over the course of this season, we've competed in Blue Twilight's Week 0 practice tournament, the Northern Lights Regional, and the Land of 10,000 Lakes Regional. 

The team bonded over a lot at the Northern Lights Regional. Placing 38th overall, it was a challenging but worthwhile competition on all levels. One of the biggest challenges was that our robot experienced many electrical difficulties throughout the competition which limited our capabilities and impacted our results of matches. Additionally, members of the team participated in a scouting alliance with NoMythic 2491 and Ultraviolet 2129. In the end of this competition, our team captain won the Dean's List Finalist Award and traveled to the World Championships to compete with other finalists. 

At the Land of 10,000 Lakes Regional, our team implemented a new project of ours called the Gender Ally Advocacy Project. This projects goal is to have each team identify a member of their team who is a Gender Ally, promoting and encouraging women and non-binary people to participate in Robotics and in the STEM field. Many teams participated in this activity, acknowledging their Gender Allies. We placed 57th overall as we learned of some mistakes we made in the build and programming of our robot, but none of us could deny the wealth of the experiences and knowledge the team gained from this tournament.