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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

On Friday our team had the opportunity to host the hub meeting which is one of the first times our team has ever hosted something like this. We have recapped the stuff that happened in the hub in this post. Recap Video: Our team has been posting content weekly and here is our most recent video that recaps what happened at the hub meeting on Friday. https://youtu.be/2_XdSMMRDzs?si=x2DEZGywsSh0ps1k What is the Hub? Central Minnesota Robotics Hub website states, "The Central Minnesota Robotics Hub is made up of 16 FRC teams from around the Central Minnesota area that work together to strengthen the FRC community. We not only work to make each of our teams better, we are striving to become a beacon for FIRST in Minnesota and the midwest." The Central Minnesota Robotics Hub was created in 2015 by Becker's C.I.S. 4607 head coach, Alex Jurek and Elk River's Stark Industries 3023, head coach, Mark Durand. So how did it go? Well, our team received many compliments from different teams mentors & students. Lots of teams where surprised that a high school could have such an amazing space for different STEM and PLTW learning environments. Our team went through 12 boxes of pizza and 72 cans of pop for the +70 people that went to this meeting. Two different coaches reached out after the hub meeting to say what a great time and experience they had, and informed our coaches that "You should be proud of the fast turn around you're are making as a team," followed by, "It's the first time in a long time they are seeing a new and much improved 6709 SPUDinc. Robotics team." Special Thanks Thanks to Miranda Forgey, 6709 SPUDinc.'s previous head coach, for laying the ground work for our team to begin to see this success. Thank you to Robert Dockendorf, Big Lake High Schools Principal, for helping with our team in all ways you can, and helping to design the "Collaborative Center" and "Exploration Labs." Thanks to Jacob Klingelhutz, Big Lake High Schools Dean of Students, for helping our team find space to put our materials. Thank you to the Big lake School Board for green lighting this project and seeing the possibilities of STEM, it means a lot to our team. With our two amazing new coaches and a refreshed leadership formation, our team has seen tremendous growth and many positive changes, and we are just getting started. "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney, a quote that summarizes our teams current mindset For questions: Coaches email: robotics@biglakeschools.org Team email: biglakerobotics@gmail.com Blog Post Writer: Isaac Berger

Thank you to everyone who came out to our first meeting this season. It was awesome to see some new students at the meeting as well as some returning people. This begins our teams schedule of meeting Tuesdays and Thursdays until Christmas break, unless there's a holiday. If you missed the meeting and would like to see the slideshows, we will have the links down below. This meeting we went over: - The history of the team and core values. - The teams time line for meetings and events. - What a competition looks like. - All new team member have also got signed up on our website to access a members page with easy access to team resources. - Mentor and leadership introduction - registering students for FIRST - We then went over the different Subdivisions and Divisions of the team - We then ended the meeting by playing a fun game of Kahoot! Subdivisons and Divisions slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rb4YiLTLdrpyMId6BEOt7gdv1Q-c_ry0PfeoLG09hvA/edit?usp=sharing Team History: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NAsjTBUvL-rT8KiMICe2XYA0yEM7E3BdcV3_xdsrkLM/edit?usp=sharing FIRST Registration slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1E5P8c9qVqhK-DP4NiSb5YarVByzYTKSSswpzaMB0-dI/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you everyone who helped support us at Pizza Ranch on Thursday! We ended up raising $349.14 in total. We would like to thank Pizza Ranch for allowing us to fundraise with them. If you would like to come see us again, visit us at the Community Fair on March 18, from 10am to 1pm.

Our team is currently working on a robot for our city's annual festival, SpudFest. The build team has been hard at work designing a robot that dispenses candy for the parade. We are also preparing items for our booth where we will be displaying our robot as well as running a spin to win game. SpudFest will be June 24-27, but our team will be demonstrating only on the 26th, the day of the parade.

We are back! Although it was a little touch and go at first, we are back and ready to take on this year’s challenge. This year our competition will be virtual, and rather than bringing our robot to a competition we are sending videos of it performing tasks to be judged. The challenge is a simplified version of last year’s and will only contain components that can be done virtually. We will continue to update as the season progresses. Stay tuned!

January 16, 2020 Week #2 Newsletter This week our build team went from the design stage to the prototyping stage. We been experimenting with different belt material and wheels for taking in the power cell. We are confident in our design and plan to move into constructing our competition robot next week! Stay tuned...

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January 28, 2020

January 10, 2020 Week #1 Newsletter As the new season begins we as a team face new challenges unique to this year's game and recurring ones from years past. We have gained a renewed sense of direction, determination and purpose. Our team looks forward to refining the job of departments and making better, more efficient use of the resources at our disposal. This season we are excited to do the Infinite Recharge Game, which was designed in cooperation with the creators of Star Wars. The game includes: - Autonomous mode for 15 seconds -Drivers controls their robots for 2 minutes and 15 seconds -Points can be scored by depositing power cells into the low, outer, and inner ports -At the end of the match the robots will race to their rendezvous point and climb up the Shield Generator Switch with the goal of balancing with your two other bots Our goal is for our robot to excel at scoring points in the lower port, be an efficient power cell transporter, and be a good climber. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!