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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

See all our team members and get some quick bits of information about each of them and what they do on 6709 S.P.U.D. Inc's team. MEET THE TEAM Students Our team prides ourselves on being a student driven, mentor supported team. We enjoy being able to choose what direction our team goes using mentors to assist us in making sure the choices we make are the right ones, or if not, helping us learn from our mistakes. Jude Slack Role: Build member Grade: 12 Years in FIRST: 6 Favorite memory: "------" Reason you joined: "------" Theo Johnson Role: Build Lead Grade: 11 Years in FIRST: 4 Favorite memory: "Hanging out at the pool in Lacrosse during a competition." Reason you joined: "I had Mrs. Forgey as a teacher and she was the captain of the team at the time." AnnaGrace Berger Role: Co Business Lead Grade: 10 Years in FIRST: 3 Favorite memory: "Bringing in baked goods to share with the team" Reason you joined: "My brother was in it" Elyas Anderson Role: -- Grade: 9 Years in FIRST: 2 Favorite memory: "Taking apart a robot." Reason you joined: "I like robots." Paxton Fluegel Role: Driver Grade: 8 Years in FIRST: 2 Favorite memory: "My first time driving the robot was my favorite part." Reason you joined: "Robot cool" Cooper Koesel Role: Build Member Grade: 8 Years in FIRST: 2 Favorite memory: "Duluth comp" Reason you joined: "STEM Night" Caiden Nelson Role: Programmer Grade: 12 Years in FIRST: ------ Favorite memory: "------" Reason you joined: "------" Jacob Stegora Role: Programmer Grade: 10 Years in FIRST: 4 Favorite memory: "Probably walking into the competition stadium for the first time." Reason you joined: "The reason I joined is because I just enjoy working on things that I want to work on." Soren Schabilion Role: Co Business Lead Grade: 8 Years in FIRST: 2 Favorite memory: "When we each donated 5 bucks at 1 in the morning to buy a cardboard cutout of the Becker robotics coach." Reason you joined: "My friends were doing it and so was my brother" Chris Carter Role: Build Member Grade: 9 Years in FIRST: 3 Favorite memory: "Recording programmers fixing autos and the bot going full speed into the wall" Reason you joined: "My mom told me to :)" Louis Haley Role: Programmer Grade: 8 Years in FIRST: 1 Favorite memory: "When the bit of shrapnel flew across the room. :)" Reason you joined: "Everyone told me to." Annika Vagle Role: Build Member Grade: 7 Years in FIRST: 1 Favorite memory: "Robotnado tragedy of 2026" Reason you joined: "I like ✨power tools✨" Daniel Schabilion Role: Build lead Grade: 12 Years in FIRST: 4 Favorite memory: "First time Autos worked on Tater Swift" Reason you joined: "Meet cool people and build cool robots!" Claire Crum Role: Safety Captain Grade: 10 Years in FIRST: 4 Favorite memory: "Robotnado tragedy of 2026" Reason you joined: "Jacob signed up for this and I thought why not, now I'm here." Tom Larson Role: Build Member Grade: 8 Years in FIRST: 1 Favorite memory: "When Logan dropped the doohickey" Reason you joined: "Logan bugging me" Logan Lundt Role: Build Member Grade: 8 Years in FIRST: 2 Favorite memory: "staying up late to work on the bot" Reason you joined: "I like nerd stuff" Wes Johnson Role: Programmer Grade: 7 Years in FIRST: 1 Favorite memory: "Robotnado tragedy of 2026" Reason you joined: "Because Theo told me to" Julian Wiggins Role: Build Member Grade: 7 Years in FIRST: 1 Favorite memory: "Using the table saw" Reason you joined: "because I want to learn how to build a robot" Mentors + Coaches Our mentors help to oversee the team to make sure that our team is always going in the right direction. They also help guide our students by helping them find their full potential. Ben Lauderbaugh Role: Coach Years in FIRST: Favorite memory: "" Reason you joined: "" Cayla Lauderbaugh Role: Coach Years in FIRST: 4 Favorite memory: "Watching the students learn and grow...and the late night robotics laughter and shenanigans because we are all tired but have a deadline to meet." Reason you joined: "To help my husband coach because nobody else wanted the job and I was already doing everything he couldn't at home to help out anyway." Craig Starr Role: Fabrication Mentor Years in FIRST: Favorite memory: "------" Reason you joined: "------" Scott Role: Fabrication mentor Years in FIRST: ------ Favorite memory: "------" Reason you joined: "------" Bret Lauderbaugh Role: Fabrication Mentor Years in FIRST: Favorite memory: "------" Reason you joined: "------" Ian Anderson Role: Alumini Programing Mentor Years in FIRST: 5 Favorite memory: " " Reason you joined: "" Bob Role: ------ Years in FIRST: ------ Favorite memory: "------" Reason you joined: "------"

What is Competition Our team commonly attends two competitions each year. Competition is the end goal in robotics, and it's what the students look forward to the most. The main events of competitions are usually on the weekends. Below are our two competitions this year. Lake Superior Regional We were excited to compete at the Lake Superior Regional in Duluth, MN at the end of February-early March! During competition, we ranked 23rd and were chosen as part of an alliance with team 2143(Team Tobor) and 5653(Iron Mosquitos). Even though we didn't win, it was a valuable learning experience and we enjoyed our time there. Granite City Regional We will participate in the Granite City Regional in St. Cloud, MN in early April.

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