St. Cloud School District will be back in session next week. In preparation for that, tonight (Tuesday night) Apollo and Tech High had their fall Open House(s). Since we only have one robot and we went to the spring Open House at Tech, we chose to go to Apollo. We enjoyed the chance to demonstrate the [ Read More ]
Archive for August, 2018

Since the Gearheads are on a break until we start up again in late September, it seemed like a good time to cover some other subjects not specific to the team, but that are very much a part of our environment. This week we are covering FIRST, our parent organization, and it's programs. This will [ Read More ]
Unfortunately, the link that we posted in the blog Tuesday night was to a promo. Not the actual live event here is the real event, on YouTube Share

If you would like to see something a little new and different, there will be a unique Robotics competition this week. It is called FIRST Global. It was created by FIRST Robotics, the parent organization of The Gearheads. This competition was designed to be the "International Robotics Olympics". There will be over 180 Nations competing [ Read More ]
Last weekend, we had the privilege of joining the Albany Huskies Robotics team in participating in the Albany parade. We had a great time! This was our first chance to show Candybot off to the Albany spectators, and it was a big hit! Natalie (a student team member for both the Albany team and the Gearheads) built [ Read More ]