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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.

Events Below you can see all of our Fundraisers and Community events. Come see us and ask questions about our team. We appreciate everyone that has helped support us by visiting us at these events. Conference Championship Our team will be hosting the annual Conference Championship Date: October 12 Location: Big Lake High School

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The Big Lake Robotics Team encompasses more than just the building of the robot, but also everything that goes with running a functioning organization. The members of the team do everything from finding sponsors , writing our newsletters, making this website, and of course the designing and building of the robot. All of our members work together to make our team function. Impact Impact team handles the most prestigious award given by FIRST, the FIRST Impact award, capable of giving you an instant ticket to Worlds, if won. Impact team also handles our teams outreach in the community. Marketing The Marketing subdivision is in charge of making sure our brand is known. They do this in a variety of ways including posting on social media, designing and creating merch, purchasing unique merchandise items iconic to our team, and much more! Safety There are many things that could go wrong while working in the shop, so we have a subdivision to make sure that the chances of mishaps happening are as low as possible. Build The Build Subdivision is typically the first thing that you think of when someone says Robotics. These are the people working in the shop, designing the robot, and solving problems. Programming Programming Subdivision is tasked with programming the robot and programming any other random things. It's more than you think though, the programming subdivision has to program the robot to read reflective tape. Electrical If you think of the robot as a living organism, those on the Electrical Subdivision are the ones that connect it's nerves together to make it functional. Logistics Our logistics Subdivision handles things from finance to scheduling. They are also in charge of making sure everything on the team runs smoothly.

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Resources Below is a list of all the resources that we have available to the public to access and use. If there is a resource that is missing, please email us at biglakerobotics@gmail.com . Sponsorship Papers Booklet Form Business Plan Coming soon Branding Coming soon Expense tracking Season Expense tracking Budget & Shopping List

6709 S.P.U.D. INC 6709 S.P.U.D. INC 6709 S.P.U.D. INC Students Our team prides ourselves in being a student lead team. We enjoy being able to choose what direction our team goes in with mentors to assist us in making sure the choices we make are the right ones. Joey Allen Role : Build Member Grade : 7 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite team Lore : N/A Why I joined : N/A Ian Anderson Role : Programming Member Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 3 Favorite team Lore : "Programming a robot" Why I joined : "Robots" AnnaGrace Berger Role : Logistics Member Grade : 8 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite team Lore : "Making the robotics pie fundraiser logo." Why I joined : "Because I wanted to be in another activity" Isaac Berger Role : Business Captain Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 5 Favorite team Lore : "Late team meetings and unplanned robotics activities." Why I joined : "I didn't want to join but the coach and my math teacher convinced me to." Tyler Bowman Role : Safety Lead Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "A picture of me holding a steaming hot cup of droopy, microwaved breadsticks." Why I joined : "I want to learn how to grow my ability of designing and engineering skills to solve any problem." Trevor Burleigh Role : Build Member Grade : 9 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite team Lore : "table" Why I joined : " Friends told me to" Chris Carter Role : Build Member Grade : 7 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite team Lore : "Water games" Why I joined : "I went to the info night and it looked cool and my mom told me to." Alex Chastain Role : Fabrication Captain Grade : 12 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "Late team meetings" Why I joined : "I was in 4607's FLL program and I wanted to do FRC" Hunter Coleman Role : Build Member Grade : 8 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite team Lore : N/A Why I joined : N/A Logan Conright Role : Marketing Lead Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 5 Favorite team Lore : "The crevasse ..." Why I joined : "To expand my marketing and talking skills" Clarissa Crum Role : Build Member Grade : 8 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite team Lore : "Racing against Ian in LaCrosse" Why I joined : "I love to create things that can be used for fun" Jovi Diemert Role : Build Member Grade : 8 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite team Lore : N/A Why I joined : N/A Spencer Frederickson Role : Build Member Grade : 8 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite team Lore : N/A Why I joined : N/A Asher Henning Role : Programming Lead Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "Beating Alex in smash bros" Why I joined : "Friends" Mya Holman Role : Build Member Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 5 Favorite team Lore : N/A Why I joined : N/A Theo Johnson Role : Electrical Lead Grade : 9 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite team Lore : "Daniel steals falcon 500 motors" Why I joined : "Cool looking robots and Mrs. Forgey as a teacher." Caiden Nelson Role : Programming Member Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "When Jude brought suction dart guns and we turned them into non NFA compliant sawed off toy guns." Why I joined : "I felt I could expand my programming knowledge and spend more time with Daniel and Jude." Felix Niemela Role : Build Member Grade : 8 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite team Lore : "Double bonk" Why I joined : "Metal, grease , motors" Stella Niemela Role : Marketing Member Grade : 9 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite team Lore : "Making the pipe organizer thing" Why I joined : "Peer pressure and a little bit of spontaneous decision making." Daniel Schabilion Role : Build Lead Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "The night that we all put brakes on waffle fry. " Why I joined : "I wanted to make a cool robot with my friends!" Jude Slack Role : Build Lead Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 3 Favorite team Lore : "Darth-Tator's intake exploding mid-match" Why I joined : "My older brothers were in it and praised the program" Jacob Stegora Role : Programming Member Grade : 8 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite team Lore : "On the bus to competitions" Why I joined : "The cool things you can build together" Faith Westivig Role : Build Member Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "Ty" Why I joined : "I saw it on tv" Mentors Our mentors help to oversee the team to make sure that our team is always going in the right direction. They also help to train our students into helping them find their full potential. Ben Lauderbaugh Role : Team Captain Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "Late team meetings" Why I joined : Jody Henning Role : Team Captain Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "Late team meetings" Why I joined : Scott Potter Role : Team Captain Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "Late team meetings" Why I joined : Cayla Lauderbaugh Role : Team Captain Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "Late team meetings" Why I joined : Bob Harrer Role : Team Captain Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite team Lore : "Late team meetings" Why I joined :

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What is First? Mission Statement The mission of FIRST® is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders and innovators, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership What is FRC We call FIRST Robotics Competition the ultimate Sport for the Mind. High-school student participants call it “the hardest fun you’ll ever have.” Under strict rules, limited time and resources, teams of students are challenged to raise funds, design a team "brand," hone teamwork skills, and build and program industrial-size robots to play a difficult field game against like-minded competitors. It’s as close to real-world engineering as a student can get. Volunteer professional mentors lend their time and talents to guide each team. Each season ends with an exciting FIRST Championship . Vision "To transform our culture by creating a world where science and technology are celebrated and where young people dream of becoming science and technology leaders." Dean Kamen, Founder Who Created FIRST? Dean Kamen is an inventor, an entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for science and technology. His roles as inventor and advocate are intertwined—his own passion for technology and its practical uses has driven his personal determination to spread the word about technology's virtues and by so doing to change the culture of the United States. Core Values Discovery: We explore new skills and ideas. Innovation: We use creativity and persistence to solve problems. Impact: We apply what we learn to improve our world. Inclusion: We respect each other and embrace our differences. Teamwork: We are stronger when we work together. Fun: We enjoy and celebrate what we do! Some Numbers 81% of FIRST alumni declare a STEM major by their fourth year in college (compared to 68% of peers in FIRST Longitudinal Study ) 2.5 million+ student participants impacted in 100+ countries since 1989 50% of female FIRST alumni declare a major in engineering or computer science by their fourth year of college (compared to 14% of peers in FIRST Longitudinal Study) FIRST programs reached 534,000+ students globally during the 2021-2022 season.