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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

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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. Students Our team prides ourselves on 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. Nora Niemela Role : Marketing Member Grade : 7 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory: "Introducing Arianna to Jolly Ranchers." Why I joined : "Because a few of my siblings were in robotics." Ian Anderson Role : Programming Member Grade : 12 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite Memory : "Programming a robot" Why I joined : "Robots" AnnaGrace Berger Role : Logistics Lead Grade : 9 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite Memory : "When we held a hub meeting and I went to grab something from the closet near where the mentors were having a meeting and Cayla jokingly said 'shh we're in a meeting.' Then I closed the door of the cabinet and the tower of Coca-Cola fell and exploded" Why I joined : "Because I wanted to be in another activity and I knew that they needed business team members" Isaac Berger Role : Business Captain Grade : 12 Years in FIRST : 6 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." Chris Carter Role : Build Member Grade : 8 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite team Lore : "Water games" Why I joined : "I went to the info night and it looked cool and my mom told me to." Logan Conright Role : Marketing Lead Grade : 12 Years in FIRST : 6 Favorite team Lore : "The crevasse ..." Why I joined : "To expand my marketing and talking skills" Clarissa Crum Role : Build Member Grade : 9 Years in FIRST : 3 Favorite Memory : "Racing against Ian in LaCrosse" Why I joined : "I love to create things that can be used for fun" Paxton Fluegel Role : Build Member Grade : 7 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A Spencer Frederickson Role : Build Member Grade : 9 Years in FIRST : 3 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A Asher Henning Role : Programming Lead Grade : 12 Years in FIRST : 5 Favorite Memory : "Beating Alex in smash bros" Why I joined : "Friends" Mya Holman Role : Build Member Grade : 12 Years in FIRST : 6 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A Theo Johnson Role : Electrical Lead Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 3 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 : 11 Years in FIRST : 5 Favorite Memory : "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 : 9 Years in FIRST : 3 Favorite team Lore : "Double bonk" Why I joined : "Metal, grease , motors" Stella Niemela Role : Marketing Member Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite Memory : "Interviews with Arianna at Lake Superior" Why I joined : "Peer pressure and a little bit of spontaneous decision making." Daniel Schabilion Role : Build Lead Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 5 Favorite Memory : "The night that we all put brakes on waffle fry. " Why I joined : "I wanted to make a cool robot with my friends!" Delanie Davis Role : Build Lead Grade : 10 Years in FIRST : 5 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A Jude Slack Role : Build Lead Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 4 Favorite Memory : "Darth-Tater's intake exploding mid-match" Why I joined : "My older brothers were in it and praised the program" Jacob Stegora Role : Programming Member Grade : 9 Years in FIRST : 3 Favorite Memory: "On the bus to competitions" Why I joined : "The cool things you can build together" Faith Westivig Role : Build Member Grade : 12 Years in FIRST : 5 Favorite team Lore : "Ty" Why I joined : "I saw it on tv" Landon Cross Role : Build Member Grade : 8 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A Arianna Porrone Role : Build Member Grade : 12 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory: "Our trip to St. Cloud for Jumpstart. I loved getting to know the other members on the team and the class about the skills for building a successful Robot." Why I joined : N/A Lilly Possehl Role : Build Member Grade : 11 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory: N/A Why I joined : N/A Soren Schabilion Role : Marketing Member Grade : 7 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A Cooper Koesel Role : Build Member Grade : 7 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A Logan Lundt Role : Build Member Grade : 7 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A Kole Nelson Role : Programming Member Grade : 9 Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A 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 : Coach Years in FIRST : 3 Favorite Memory : "Everything Double Bubble...double bubble flavored tootsie rolls!" Why I joined : My love for all things robotics does! Cayla Lauderbaugh Role : Coach Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite Memory: "Breaking out in random song and other students joining in!" Why I joined : come ask me and I'll give you many reasons. Jody Henning Role : Mentor Years in FIRST : 2 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined :N/A Scott Potter Role : Mentor Years in FIRST : 8 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined :N/A Alex Chastain Role : Mentor Years in FIRST : 9.5 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : Why wouldn't I join? Bret Lauderbaugh Role : Mentor Years in FIRST : 1 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A Mike Slack Role : Mentor Years in FIRST : 9 Favorite Memory : N/A Why I joined : N/A