Great Northern Regional
2025

 

 On Wednesday March 12, immediately after school, our team loaded the trailer once again for our MAIN EVENT of the Season, The Great Northern Regional in Grand Forks, North Dakota. After we got our tool boxes, batteries, pit, supplies, and of course our robot loaded up we all piled into the suburban and headed west out of town. 3 hours latter we arrived at our destination, the immense Alerus Center. Where we soon joined other teams in loading in, setting up, and preparing for the next days events. Before retiring for the night at our hotel, the Hampton Inn and Suites, our team enjoyed a meal together at Buffalo Wild Wings.

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Due to incoming sever winter weather, the Regional was adjusted so that half of Thursday was designated for practice matches and the other half of the day was the start of qualifying matches. Within this adjustment our team was able to practice with the robot and compete in our first qualifying match of the event. During Qualification match 8 our team competed alongside team 9092, Tower Robotics out of Ogden, Iowa and team 8878 Arrow Bot form Ashby, Minnesota. within the 2 minute 15 second match our robot crossed the line in autonomous with code provided to us by Tower Robotics, delivered coral to the reef and moved about the field before the end of the match.  We had two more qualification matches before the end of the day. Once we played our last qualifying match of the day with teams 3298 Arrow Bots from Pipestone, Minnesota and 5464 Bluejacket Robotics from Cambridge, Minnesota we got our pit reorganized and headed out for supper at Pizza Ranch. After we had all eaten and relaxed a bit form the days events we headed back to the hotel for a good nights rest.

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Friday came early with a 7:30am breakfast, followed by a match right after opening ceremonies at 8:55am. The ceremonies consisted of a welcome by  yoji shimizu and the FIRST Train, a few words from a representative of UND, a drumming presentation by the Red Lake High school, presentation of the colors by the local VFW and the National Anthem.  Our first match of the day went well, we delivered coral to the reef and were able move about the field. Due to a load on misshape during our next match or main elevator broke free from our frame and we end up just sitting through the entirety of match 43. But thanks to the help of event volunteers, members of 4539 Kaotic Robotics, 4674 RoboJacks and other fellow competitors we only had to play one match without our main tool. Which went quite well as a defense robot for match 49. We were, with the help of the aforementioned, able to do major repairs to our robot and be on the practice field by the end of the events lunch break. This gave us the opportunity to compete in three more matches completely intact and on point. our last match was match 74 with team 3276 Tool Cats from New London-Spicer Minnesota, and team 4198 Robo Cats form Waconia Minnesota.  The end of this match gave us a final rank of 46 out of 52 teams. we stayed for the alliance selection and then packed up the pit and our supplies, loaded the trailer, checked out of our hotel and headed for supper at Wendy's before leaving town.  We arrived back at the school over three hours latter after dropping kids off on our way home. Once at the school we unloaded the trailer and brought every thing back into the robotics room, bringing to an end our experience as apart of the Great Northern Regional 2025.

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We would like to thank all of those who helped us before, during and after the regional. With out your help this experience and memory would not have been possible.

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  Be sure to check out the pages about our trips to State and Worlds, located under the tab "Bog Bots Report".

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  THANK YOU to OUR SPONSORS, SUPPORTERS, VOULNTEERS, DONERS and to our COMMUNITIES.  Without your support this experience, if not this entire season, would not be possible.  We deeply appreciate your support.