
What we're doing
2025

JOURNEY into the DEEP With REEFSCAPE 2025
On Saturday, January 4th at 12:00pm eastern standard time, the world watched as the new season of FIRST Robotics Competition was revealed. REEFSCAPE, a journey into the depths of the oceans to help preserve our world's coral reefs and their diverse ecosystems. This years challenges involve two alliances of three robots each must harvest algae (16" diameter exercise balls) off their reef, deliver new coral (4"diameter PVC pipe segments) back to their reef and score them onto one of four different levels. Then in the last moments of the match they must climb onto a shallow or deep cage hanging from their alliance's barge to ascend back to the surface.
To meet these challenges, The Kelliher Bog Bots are designing and building a swerve drive robot capable of delivering coral form the coral station to the first three levels of the reef and then climb on a cage to ascend to the surface. to do this we are using a two stage elevator to lift our delivery mechanism from the level of the coral station to the first three levels of the reef.
We will be participating in the week zero event at Ashby, MN during the weekend of February 14th. Then during the week of March 10th we will be attending The Great Northern Regional at the Alerus in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
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.
click below to visit the FIRST Robotics website
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