Open-Room Updates Author: Allen A Today was our first open room of the 2023 robotics season. We had many good ideas for prototypes from kickoff and were excited to build them. Today we made several of those prototypes come to life. In addition to this, we practiced driving our demo…
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2023 Build Season Kickoff (1/7/23)
Authors: Ani R Dylan C Introduction Today marked the start of the 2023 Build Season. Everyone arrived at school for our traditional pancake breakfast at 9:00 AM where we all slowly gathered and woke up with coffee and orange juice. After breakfast, our team took one massive team picture (along…
Open Room And Dodgeball 12/16-18/22
Event Summaries On Friday the 16th the team had another usual open room. Below is a summary of the entire evening along with a bonus segment on a South-West Hub meeting the team had on the 18th. Open-Room Impact Presenters Interview Open room was quite busy this time around, to…
FTC Banquet
Event Summary Over the past few months, Talon has worked closely with our middle school to provide a robotics program for its students. With much success, we have rebuilt its own FTC program. By having Talon members mentor multiple teams. The Eden Prairie Robotics program has had a great rookie…
Bots For Tots 2022
Event Overview Bots for Tots was a huge success. We at Talon Robotics, along with the Eden Prairie Police Department, demonstrated our robots (although in different ways) and connected with the kids and parents. This year, many parents were very interested in the robots, which is good news because the…
MMR 2022
Event Summary MMR (Minnesota Miniature Regional) is an off-season competition consisting of 36 teams, and it is the last off-season competition we at team 2502 go to. This event was definitely a great experience for both experienced and new team members. There were a few hurdles we had to jump…
Friday Fun with FTC!!! (11/11/22)
Author: Timothy M The FTC Incursion Today during the open room we had half of the FTC teams that we mentor come into the room to get some last-minute work done on their robots before their competition the next day. They worked tirelessly to get everything patched up and get…
Monday Night Lights. (Open Room, 11/7/22)
Event Summary Business meetings On Monday the 7th, Talon decided to add a second open room for each week. From now the team will be having two open rooms per week until the season begins. Today the team got a lot done. To start the day off, the team had…
Robots & Rotini 2022
Authors: Etnik H, Dylan C Event Summary On November 5th Talon was finally able to have its biggest fundraiser of the year Robots & Rotini! Below is a summary of pasta, games, and more! FTC Practice and Demos All of the Eden Prairie FTC teams came to Robots & Rotini…
MRI 2022
Authors: Dylan C, Anirudh R Event Summary MRI is a local off-season event, in Roseville, consisting of 36 teams. MRI, being one of the last events of the 2022 off-season, was another excellent event for newer members to get their first competition experience. The team had a great time and…