About Us

Our Mission

OWL Robotics seeks to build skills in engineering, programming, and project management in a secure and welcoming environment while promoting our values of teamwork, inclusion, respect, creativity, and safety.

Our team’s goal is to create an educational experience that you cannot find in a standard classroom. We focus on simulating what an engineering field is like and providing an engaging learning opportunity for high school students, all within our school. Our robotics program helps develop leadership and collaboration skills that all students on the team can take with them into their life after high school. The team wants to help promote engineering for all students. We want to teach kids that engineering is more than just complicated math and science, and that it can be a beneficial career option.

OWL Open Circuits Robotics is a student led, gender diverse, and LGBTQ+ inclusive FRC robotics team. We focus on building confidence, team spirit, and useful STEM and business skills to prepare for adulthood. 

Past Seasons

Our team, founded in 2014, has bounced back from a year of relative inactivity in 2018 to have several successful seasons. During the 2022 season, our team participated in the Minnesota North Star Regional Tournament in April. We also participated in a tournament at Irondale High School. That year, we primarily focused on defense and launching cargo with the help of a human player. In the fall of 2022, Open Circuits participated in an invitational tournament at Roseville Area High School. During that tournament, we took the opportunity to onboard many of our freshman members. 

During the 2023 season,  our team participated in the Northern Lights Regional Tournament and the Land of 10,000 Lakes Regional Tournament. We improved significantly over the season, learning valuable lessons about collaboration, practice, and planning. Our new members were able to help in many areas and have become valuable members of multiple sub-teams.

Placing 38th overall at the Northern Lights Regional in 2024, our robot experienced many electrical difficulties throughout the competition. However, our team still had fun participating in a scouting alliance and other activities. At the end of this competition, our team captain won the Dean's List Finalist Award. At the Land of 10,000 Lakes Regional, our team implemented a new project 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. 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. 

In 2025, our team went to the Minnesota 10,000 Lakes and Minnesota North Star. At 10,000 Lakes, we placed 46th. We had a few mechanical and electrical errors, but we still tried our best. At Minnesota North Star, we had similar problems that we had at 10,000 Lakes, but we worked through it and placed 36th. We learned a lot about a new drive train style, Swerve Drive, which was a big stepping stone for our team.