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…
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…
Off-Season Events- Happy July Fourth!
Sunday, July 3rd Sparklefest! Sparklefest is an annual festival on July 3rd where many people come to celebrate. We decided to demonstrate our robots Cronus and Disco as part of the festivities this year. In around two weeks, we managed to plan transportation for the robot, gathered around 25 volunteers,…
2024 Build Season Days 73-80 (3/18-3/26)
Monday 3/18 Practice & Pizza Usually, Mondays are one of our busiest days in the open room. Instead, with most people being away for spring break, today was quite sluggish. Work on our robot continued as usual, just with fewer people. A lot of the work didn’t require an abundance…
2024 Build Season Days 65-72 (3/11-3/17)
Wednesday 3/13- Medha G. Getting Locked in Today was our first open room back from our first season tournament in Sedalia, Missouri – and we were locked in. Even though Sedalia, Missouri didn’t work out exactly how we wanted it to, the important thing was that we knew exactly what…
2024 Build Season Days 57-64 (3/4-3/11)
Monday 3/4 – Dylan L, Manas P As we kicked off the open room, we had an important decision to make: to decide the batteries’ name theme. Possible themes included pasta shapes and US presidents, but we ultimately decided on naming them after types of pasta. As we continued the…
2024 Build Season Days 52-56 (2/26-3/3)
Monday 2/26 As our exciting trip to Missouri draws near, we have a lot of work to wrap up! We worked on our defense robot, adding some finishing touches to ensure things were where they should be. We also wrapped up our work on our bumpers, making them pretty and presentable. We…