Written By: Sadie N Event Summary Last Wednesday, April 12, 2023, four students and three mentors from our team went to St Paul for STEM Day at the Capitol 2023. This event has historically been held to invite Upper Midwest FIRST teams to show off their robots and advocate for…
10,000 Lakes Regional: Playoff Matches 2023
Event Summary Written By: Daniel N Qualification Matches 8 & 9 On Saturday, at our 10,000 Lakes Regional, we played a total of 7 matches. Our first two matches were qualification matches(75 and 82). In match 75 we won 119-74, earning us 3 ranking points. In match 82 we were…
10K Regional: Qual matches 2023
Written By: Manas P, Edited By Trevor K, Dylan C Event Summary With the 10,000 Lakes Regional Starting on Thursday, everyone at Talon was ready to see our newly improved robot in action. This post is the second part of a series of three posts dedicated to our success at…
10,000 Lakes Regional: Practice Day
Event Summary Located in the Williams Arena at the University of Minnesota. Talon traveled to share our newly designed robot with the rest of the FRC community. This Post is part of a series of three posts dedicated to our success at 10K. Enjoy! With the 10,000 Lakes Regional Starting…
2023 Build Season Days 52-58 (3/20-26/2023)
The Adventures of Spring Break: Revenge of the Practice Monday-20th Spring break officially started for our school district, but that doesn’t mean Talon isn’t hard at work! At 3:30 room opened and the team began to work on the robot. Our main work was on making an auto. While not…
2023 Build Season Days 45-51 (3/13-19/2023)
We Did It! This past week Talon finished building our robot. This weekly summary tells the story of us finishing it along with the team practicing. Monday-13th Tuesday-14th Wednesday-15th Thursday-16th Friday-17th Weekend Updates 18/19 Both weekend days were quite similar to each other. On Saturday the team mainly worked on…
2023 Build Season Days 40-44 (3/6-10/2023)
Authors: Dylan C, Timothy M, Isaac M, Al A. Week Summary: Monday-6th Monday was a day off for the entire team. No subteam met and the room was canceled! Tuesday-7th Tuesday was the team’s first day back since Duluth. While the robot was being redesigned, members of the team were…
NORTHERN LIGHTS REGIONAL Day 3 3/4/2023
Attack of the DECC Just like Friday morning, every team member woke up at different times to have breakfast. Once 7:30 hit everyone moved over to the DECC to get through the rest of our qualification matches. Below is a summary of Saturday: Qualification Matches Qualification match 7 The bell…
NORTHERN LIGHTS REGIONAL Day 2 3/3/23
Day Summary Breakfast The start of a good day comes with breakfast. While easing into the lobby of the hotel members woke up at different times. All of these times being early in the morning, Talon was ready to go by 7:30am. We quickly rushed to the DECC from our…
NORTHERN LIGHTS REGIONAL Day 1 3/2/23
The Northern lights Regional is the first competition of the season for the team. Starting super late Wednesday night our drive team traveled alongside our robot trailer to get all the way up to Duluth. Once they arrived they unpacked the trailer and settled into the hotel getting plenty of…