What we're doing
2026
REBUILT
2026
With a new year comes a new challenge for Team 6453. FIRST REBUILT, part of FIRST AGE, was revealed to the world on January 10th, 2026, and astounded all who saw it. The game design for REBUILT consists of two alliances of three teams each, whose main goals are to score hard foam balls called Fuel into an element called a Hub and to climb their Tower to one of three levels. Another part of this year's game is that the 2min. 40sec. match is divided up into six time slots including Autonomous and End Game. The other four slots are divided equally between the two alliances where their hubs are either active or inactive. When a Hub is inactive, its lights will be off, and any Fuel scored in that Hub will not be counted towards their alliance's score.
To meet these challenges The Kelliher Bog Bots are developing a tank drive robot that has a mechanism to pick Fuel off the floor and shoot it into the Hub. The robot will also have a hopper on the back to hold and transport Fuel either gathered by its mechanism or loaded into it by the Outpost (players station). Team 6453 is working towards being able to test our robot at our Week Zero event in Pine River, Minnesota on February 21st, 2026.
Thank you to all our sponsors and supporters. With out you none of these experiences would be possible.
Check out our experiences at FRC Worlds in Houston Texas and The Minnesota State Robotics Championship at U of M in Minneapolis Minnesota. Under the Bog Bots Report tab above.
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