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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

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

What is Competition Our team commonly attends two competitions each year. Competition is the end goal in robotics, its 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.

Our Teams Beginning Founders Our team was started by two students, Erik Poffenberger and Denton Eisenschenk. Both of whom are studying a type of Engineering. These students where in middle school when they created it with the guidance of the shop teacher, Mr. Hill. When Our team was created in October of 2017. Year History Looking back on the timeline! 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 dived right into the Duluth Lake Superior Regional and, ranking 17th, joined teams 2143(Team Tobor) and 5653(Iron Mosquitos) in an alliance. We will later compete at St. Cloud Granite City Regional. Robot History 6709 S.P.U.D. INC has had many different robots throughout our history. Many different from the others. All known robot names also have a potato theme. 2017 - Steamworks NA 2018 - PowerUp NA 2019 - Deep Space NA 2020 - Infinite Recharge NA 2021 - Infinite Recharge Tater Tantrum 2022 - Rapid React Darth Tater 2023 - SpudFest parade Spuddles 2023 - Charged Up WaffleFry 2024 - Crescendo Tater Swift 2024 - SpudFest Parade Sweet Potato 2025 - Reefscape TBD