What we're doing
2024
Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference Championship 2024
Early Friday morning our team of new recruits and returning members loaded the trailer with our robot, pit and tools and by 7:00am headed we south to our first meet of the season. We arrived at the Bemidji High School an hour later, here we found where to unload our robot and supplies and made our way to the pit area. Once we found or designated spot, we set up the pit and prepared the robot for a day of competition. Our team was in one of the first matches of the day. Here our new members got to get a senses of how a real competition happens. Here they got to help get the robot on and off the field, see the robot in action, see what it is like to drive the robot and the overall organization of a typical robotics event. After our fist match and throughout the day our drive team meet with scouts and future alliance members to discuss the robots capabilities and strategy for upcoming matches. After an hour lunch break the days matches continued and our team did quite well playing defense and dealing with the occasional technical hiccups and mechanical break downs of the robot. When our last match was done our team took down the pit, repacked the tools and got every thing ready to leave. We stayed for a few of the playoff matches before loading the trailer and heading off to our last team event, supper together at KFC. Once every one had eaten we loaded back into the suburban and headed back to school. At the school we unloaded the trailer and brought every thing back into the robotics room, binging to an end the days experiences.
Be sure to check out the pages about our trips to State and Worlds, located under the tab "Bog Bots Report".
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.
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Community Outreach and involvement
Since COVID-19 The Kelliher Bog Bots have been working on replacing lost avenues for out reach, while improving and monitoring existing areas that we have already established. The following are the avenues that we are currently using to reach out and be involved in our community.
Kelliher Public School
Gatherings and events
The Kelliher Bog Bots Team 6453 Is more than just a First Robotics Competition Team with a name and a number and a Neat or cool Mascot and logo. It is apart of a dedicated small town school that itself is an integral part of a hard working small Northern Minnesota Town. Who both have supported us and took an interest in us from our team's Creation to this current Season. In Return, We, the members and staff of 6453 Do our level best to give back to this school and to this town when and wherever possible. Our give back Ranges From our performance at our School's ROBOT & GAME REVEAL every season, to setting up booths and displays at the community's fairs and carnivals, to having a float in the local Big Bog Festival during the summer. Theses avenues of out reach give us a chance to give back to a school and a community that, as a whole given us a lot.
2018 School Reveal to our future members.
FRC Power UP
2019 pre-School assembly Reveal.
The Future of our Team!
2021 Team display in Kelliher Public School Cafeteria to be viewed by all ages.
2023 health fair booth displaying our accomplishments and our new pit.
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Presenters
IN May of 2022 Team 6453 was given the opportunity to present to a neighboring high school, Northome School in Northome Minnesota. We were asked to present to Junior high and high school students, to share with them what it is like being apart of the First Robotics Competition. Including, what FIRST offers, What you can learn in FIRST, what it takes to build a robot, how a typical season is laid out and what we have learned together in our six years of being in FIRSTS Robotics. This presentation was put on to help Northome on their information search on starting a team of their own and becoming apart of the Northern Minnesota Robotics Conference.
Our team displaying and explaining our robot Capitan Jack to perspective Northome team Members
Answering questions about the robot and being apart of a First Robotics Competition Team.
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In Big Bog Festival
In July of 2022 our team put together a float for the Big Bog Festival in Kelliher, Minnesota. We were able to drive our robot ahead of the float with our flag waving proudly. This gave us a chance to be seen by the community and to thank the community for supporting us.
Our team's float before the 2022 Kelliher Big Bog Festival. Ready to be seen by the community