Monday 1/20 Drivetrains and Deep Climbs – Connor P. Since it was MLK day we could get straight to work, and we started like a rocket! We quickly got our machines running all day to get parts ready, along with starting to get our deep climb attached to our drivetrain!…
2025 Build Season Days 9-16 (1/13-1/19)
Monday 1/13 On your marks, get set, CAD! – By Medha G. Welcome back from the weekend! The usual whirr of the CnC during the week was quelled this Monday because this day was a celebration- a milestone in our robot design. That’s right, this Monday was the start of…
Happy Holidays❄️⛄!
Sunday, 11/24 Bots for Tots On Sunday, November 24th we demoed at the Eden Prairie mall in an event called Bots for Tots! Bots for Tots is an event where Talon Robotics partners with the charity Toys for Tots and demos our robot around the Eden Prairie Mall while collecting…
Robots & Rotini
Sunday, 11/10 Talon Robotics Annual Fundraising Dinner This past weekend, Talon hosted our annual fundraising dinner Robots and Rotini. This is Talon’s annual pasta dinner fundraiser featuring demonstrations of robots from both our FRC (high school) and FTC (middle school) teams, a silent auction, a dinner, and so much more!…
Off Season Competition- East Metro Collaborative Competition
Saturday, 10/26/24 EMCC was successful for Talon this year. EMCC is an off-season tournament that Talon participates in every year. It is a low-stakes tournament, using last season’s game, crescendo, designed to condition new robotics members to drive or operate a robot on a field with other robots. This allows…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃🎃🎃!!!
Saturday (10/12) Harvest to Halloween We attended and demoed at Harvest to Halloween on Saturday, October 12th. Harvest to Halloween is a city of Eden Prairie event where people of all ages gather to celebrate Halloween at Riley Lake Park. There were many children so we had many opportunities to…
STEM Day with the Girl Scouts
Tuesday (8/27) Talon collaborated once more on a STEM day with the Girl Scout troops in our community! The Eden Prairie School of Dance served as the location for the event. This was our first-ever Inclusivity (our new subteam) event, and it was a huge success. In total, we had…
Girls who Code has Officially Ended!
Monday (8/5) – Friday (8/16) Given that this would be our first year holding the camp, the fact that there were roughly ten active participants each day made it a huge success. Web development, data and AI, cybersecurity, P5.js, Python, and Scratch were the topics that the students studied. The…
The Beginning of the FLL Season
Wednesday (8/7) The FIRST Lego League season (FLL) for students in grades 4-6 starts today! In order to get to know one another and view the 2024–25 season game video, four teams got together at the EPHS East Commons for their season kickoff. All teams, comprising roughly forty kids, couldn’t…
Off Season Open Room Day 1
Wednesday 6/26 Summer starts when Open Room does We’re back! We had first open room this summer. After an impromptu room change, Talon is back and ready to begin doing summer projects. After recent changes on our team, the room was bustling with new excitement about what’s in store this…