Written By: Dylan C, Medha G. Monday 1/15 Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! For Talon the team decided that we needed another room, so instead of taking the day off, we used Monday as a way to cut plates on our CNC machine. The team listened to music and…
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2024 Build Season Days 1-8 (1/7 – 1/14)
Written By Dylan C, Medha G 1/7 The Day After Kickoff Being a Sunday afternoon, everyone was anxious to start work on prototyping the assigned subsystems they received on the kickoff. Starting at noon the party was slowly getting started. As Bob Marley said best, “We’re jammin’ ” and jamming…
2024 Build Season Kickoff (1/6/2024)
The Beginning Today, we began our 2024 Build Season. We started at 8 AM where we prepared for Kickoff by setting up the South Commons area for our team to collaborate, and shortly had our traditional annual pancake breakfast, as our team began to arrive and get prepared for a…
Inspiring Bots for Tots 2023
Bots for Tots, an annual event held at the Eden Prairie mall, it took place on December 17 this past Sunday. The purpose of the event was to do two things: Raise money and toys for underserved kids in Eden Prairie, as well as connect with kids throughout the twin…
Talon Visits Motocrane!
By Charlotte S Robotics team members went to Motocrane for a demo/tour. Motocrane is a company that produces high-tech camera cranes and arms for your car. 10 team members were honored to tour this company on Wednesday, the 29th for around an hour. Our team members had a great time…
2023 Annual Robots and Rotini
A Fun Evening On Sunday, November 5th, Talon held our annual Robots & Rotini fundraising dinner at EPHS. It was a successful event, raising almost $5000 for the organization. The evening was jam-packed with demonstrations from our robot and FTC teams as well as hands-on LEGO robot building & programming…
Trials & Tribulations of EMCC 2023
Written by Nathan R Event Summary Being yet another offseason event for the team, everyone at Talon was super excited to see last year’s robot compete against our other high school friends. This event was somewhat different than other tournaments as it saw the team enter a “skirmish tournament”. This…
MRI 2023: Reaching Finals with First Place Alliance
Written By: Audrey T A Great Day MRI (or Minnesota Robotics Invitational) is an off-season competition hosted by our friends the FireBears. At this competition, teams are in alliances with two other high school teams and compete against another alliance with last year’s Charged Up Game. Our team had an…
2023 Minnesota State Capitol STEM Day
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…