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This week was our first full week of practices for the 2025 season. We are meeting on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. On Monday Reefscape Season This season is rather unique we and many other teams have said this is one of the most complicated games we've seen in a while. To learn more about the season game, you can watch the linked video. https://youtu.be/YWbxcjlY9JY?si=8LOFX_mN7rc1Jh3C Recap Video Linked below is our teams recap video of Week 1 https://youtu.be/duvaIVbtTsI?si=-GyWiIfTWSXPjOOB Saturday: Kickoff Saturday January 4th, our team watched the video and began designing our robot and began. brainstorming designs. Our team worked with 4632, Monti-Pythons! We also had the privilege of using the BLHS Exploration Labs(photos of it can be seen below). Special thanks to Big Lake Assistant Superintendent, Minda Anderson for coming and looking at our facility and see what kick off is all about. Another thanks to Monticello Superintendent, Eric Olson and Actives Director, Gary Revenig for also coming to see what we do and gain ideas for 4632 Monti-Pythons facility and operations. Monday We had a leadership meeting and discussed the plans for the week and our overall schedule for the season. Tuesday The team started in the Big Lake High School Exploration lab where we talked about our goals for the season . After departments broke off and set individual goals and plans for the season Build started prototyping different design ideas Prototypes To see more about our prototypes, go to our social medias, we have been posting videos of them Thursday Build team continued to prototype and also make the coral field pieces Business team worked on taking videos and pictures, and working on a season calendar Saturday On Saturday business team toke more pictures, worked on the website, and edited videos Build team worked on making field pieces and manipulators Competitions Competitions are free to the public and we highly suggest you come and see what we do. Duluth: Lake Superior Regional February 28 - March 1 Duluth entertainment convention center Week 1 Teams participating: 54 https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/2025/MNDU St. Cloud: Granite City Regional April 4-5 Rivers Edge Convention Cetner Week 6 Teams participating: 48 https://frc-events.firstinspires.org/2025/mnmi2 Merch Our team is doing DTF printing through Anderson Designs. Orders are due Tuesday January 28th. https://anderson-designs.com/shop/ols/categories/big-lake-robotics Pictures of the week

Today was our first meeting of the season! We went over everything from meeting the leadership team, mentors, and coaches. We also went over our various subdivisions our team has to show students the opportunities available to them. We then informed students about the merch store and that it will be closing November 20th. We will be using Direct To Transfer printing this year. Our team has four core values; Service, Pride, Unity, and Dedication. Today we practiced the Pride and Unity core value by splitting students into groups to do a spaghetti and marshmallows team bonding exercise. Next weeks meeting: Tuesday November 12: Safety & Room tour Meeting, our team takes safety very seriously and requires all students to take attend a safety meeting to use our tools. Purchase Merch here: (Order by November 20th)   https://anderson-designs.com/shop/ols/categories/big-lake-robotics Purchase our 2024 season banner here: https://chrislommelphotography.shootproof.com/gallery/PanoPrints PLEASE NOTE: Current team banners are located in the "School Year 2024-2025" gallery.

Our teams competition is going on this weekend. We just finished up some practice matches and have already made some improvements to the robot to get it read for Qualification Matches for Saturday and Sunday. Below is the schedule for our matches. If you would like to stop by and watch some matches We are very excited for this competition, just a couple of weeks ago we finished up our Duluth Lake Superior Regional and got ranked 17/55. If you'd like to check us out, we are at the St. Cloud River's Edge Convention Center. You can also watch live at: https://www.twitch.tv/firstinspires7

A PROGRAM BUILT FOR ANYONE 6709 S.P.U.D. INC GOAL Expand STEM awareness in the community while providing students opportunities to learn, explore, and discover career and STEM interests. Isaac Berger Role: Business Captain “Robotics has been a great way for me to learn parts of companies in a fun and sport-like way. I would suggest robotics to anyone who wants to build a robot, or learn more about how a business runs." Alayna Boe Role: Build Member "Being a member of this team is truly wonderful. I get to make an impact in the FIRST community. FIRST is amazing with helping girls get interested in STEM and so many more opportunities come from that, which I am grateful for." 2024 CMRC Winners Our Subdivisions The opportunities are endless Build Logistics Programming Electrical Impact Marketing "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney What We Believe Our team has 4 cornerstone beliefs 01 Student-Led To us this means, a robotics team where students take charge of key decisions, lead meetings, and manage day-to-day operations, with mentors offering guidance. To put it metaphorically, its like bowling, the students are the bowling ball, and the mentors are the guide rails making sure we always knock down the pins. 02 Sustainability For us, this means practicing the art of passing down the torch to new leadership as veteran members graduate. We focus on building strong relationships with our school to ensure the team’s long-term success. Sustainability also means collaborating with other teams, working together to support each other, and making sure we all thrive, both now and in the future. 03 Community Engagement Robotics is about giving STEM opportunities to everyone. We are fortunate to be located in Big Lake Schools where STEM is their focus too. Our team has always made an effort in being out in the community demonstrating the importance of STEM. 04 Its not just building a robot FIRST Robotics motto is "More Than Robots." And we believe in this strongly. Robotics is an amazing experience in which where you can meet new people, learn new skills. Robotics means something different to each student(learn more at "Meet The Team" page) Core Values Service We engage in the community Pride We are proud of what we do and who we are Unity We work as one team following the same goal Dedication We give it our all, doing our best on whatever we do

6709 S.P.U.D. INC 6709 S.P.U.D. INC 6709 S.P.U.D. INC Merchandise New merch and logo out now! Our team works with Anderson Designs, a women owned company, to create amazing merchandise with DTS printing and Vinyl. Go to Store> Banner picture Order our banner picture with the link below! Order Banner> Lean More about us Want to learn more about 6709 S.P.U.D. INC? Check out our history to see what we've accomplished! Learn more> Join Our first meeting is on November 4th. The meeting will take place in the Big Lake High school Exploration Labs. From 3:30-5:30 More> HUB MEETING January 17th 6:00-7:00 - Social Hour 7:00-8:00 - Meeting Time BLHS Expo. Labs Team Sign Up COMPETITIONS 1 Lake Superior Regional Located in Duluth, MN in the DECC Arena February 26 - March 1 2025 Teams attending: 52 2 Granite City Regional Located in St. Cloud Mn, in the Rivers Edge Convention Center April 2 - April 5 Teams attending: 44 ABOUT US We are 6709 SPUDinc, a high school robotics team from Big Lake, Minnesota, that participates in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Our team name and robots are inspired by our town’s annual SpudFest, a celebration of potatoes. Our mission is to inspire young students to pursue STEM careers through hands-on learning and mentorship. READ MORE Our Sponsors: 1/1

Our History We began in 2017 with the help of team 4607(C.I.S.), only 7 people strong and full of determination. Since then, we have continued to grow and create, inspiring the next generation of problem solvers. This is our story. 2017 Steamworks We got off to a great start! Our team ranked 5th place at the MN 10,00 Lakes Regional and formed an alliance with team 3007(Robotitans ) and team 2581(Spartan Robotics ). We later ranked 16th place at the MSHSL FIRST State Robotics Championship. 2018 Power Up Our team powered up our robot for our second season with several new additions to the team. Now a team of 15 students strong, we ranked 25th at the Medtronic Foundation Regional in Minneapolis. 2019 Destination: Deep Space We blasted off this season by growing to 25 students this year, and celebrated by investing in several large equipment upgrades. Our team ranked 46th in the Great Northern Regional and 56th in the Minnesota 10,000 Lakes Regional. 2020 Infinite Recharge 2020 greeted a team recharge, as the majority of our members joined this year. Unfortunately, this season was cut short and we did not have the chance to participate in any regionals. 2021 Infinite Recharge 2021 found our team participating in an online robotics challenge rather than an in-person competition. Only students that lettered the previous year were allowed to take part due to safety concerns, leaving only a few members on the team. 2022 Rapid React In 2022 we took off with Darth Tater and ranked 42nd at the Great Northern Regional during Week 4. This year was a lot of students first competition due the prior years being online, our team took notice of this and made this a growing year. 2023 Charged Up The electrical energy and positive charge this season powered our robot, Waffle Fry , and marked another great season. At the North Star Regional in LaCrosse, we ranked 38th out of 39 teams. After a short recovery period, we participated in the 10,000 Lakes Regional and ranked 18th out of 61 teams. In addition, teams 7850(C.A.R.D.S.) and 4664(Butler Bots) chose us as alliance partners. 2024 Crescendo Our robot, Tater Swift , raised the volume of our performance to the next level. We ranked 17th at the Lake Superior Regional, then participated in St. Cloud’s very first Granite City Regional, ranking 15th place and joining teams 6749(tERAbytes ) and 2549(Millerbots ) in an alliance. 2025 Reefscape This our current year. Our team will be competing at the Duluth Lake Superior Regional and St. Cloud Granite City Regional.